Vintage treatment of a recent photo of the Breakwater Hotel on Ocean Drive in South Beach using Kim Klassen’s Simplicity Texture in three different blending modes. Was supposed to be for Texture Tuesday, but better late than never!
Coming soon…a new catalog of exciting and vibrant images from the Art Deco District of Miami Beach! Here’s a first look from Collins Avenue in South Beach…
Flo Minton | Studio in Color will be at the 4th Art on the Avenue for this season on January 19th from 6:30pm to 10pm in Downtown Delray Beach, FL, Atlantic Avenue between Swinton Ave and 6th Ave. The theme of the show is “I LOVE NY”, which made this Native NY’er very happy!
We are one of the 12 artists selected as finalists for a series of honors, to be awarded an hour before the show begins. The event is attended by 30-40,000 people and is one is a series of six events held over the busy winter art festival season in Delray Beach. Look for us in tent 501 which will be the third tent from the stage. The pieces will be beautifully framed and marked for sale so come on down!
I recently received this photo of a bouquet I had sent. It was made up of two of my favorite flowers, irises and lavender roses and I could not resist giving it a vintage treatment. I painted it with several layered textures using blending modes and layer masks and…voila’!
I am really enjoying exploring a softer, more romantic, vintage look for my photos, a radical departure from my customary style of highly stylized, highly saturated images. Could see a whole new series of images done in this style coming down the pipe real soon. Feeling a creative shift…maybe I’m in love?
Two Irises
Created with permission of the original photographer using textures and customs brushes.
FIRST IMAGE: Original Image
SECOND IMAGE: My rendering
I am really excited about a new creative partnership with Florida portrait photographer Natasha Meyer. We will be bringing an exciting new suite of products to her photography studio clients through Citrus Creative PhotoWorks™.
These one-of-a-kind fine art pieces will be available as special orders in the following formats:
- canvas prints with oil rub and/or cracquelure finish
- hand painted prints on fine watercolor paper, rice paper or silk
- facemounted prints on acrylic with metallic standoffs
- prints on fine art metals
- encaustic portraits on wood board hand rubbed with oil paint or pastels
- wood block collages, triptychs, diptychs and other dimensional mixed media collage pieces
- image transfers on metal, wood, marble and glass
Top image is original image, bottom image is my rendering. Click on photo to see larger image.
It’s almost one year ago my work was part of the Imagination Squared exhibit at the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art. I never got a chance to showcase the photo on my blog, so I will do so now as the anniversary approaches. Around 900 artists were given small blank squares and asked to create their own piece of art. The squares were then hung as a huge grid that took up the whole main gallery of the museum. The exhibit’s opening was one of the largest events in MOCA history with hundreds attending the reception and thousands of viewers coming to view the exhibit. The highlight of the evening for the artists was definitely the fun of trying to find your square. They also made posters for us to sign our square and a three page pullout of all 900+ squares in Arbus Magazine’s commemorative edition.
Click here to see my original Facebook posting of the opening night reception – what a night to remember!
OK just when you think youve seen it all I find a woman who does portraits on Oreo cookies, flowers made from hair, nails clippings and baby teeth and little scenes using insects as the main characters. Judith Klausner is a graduate of Wesleyan U and is based in Somerville, MA. Her stuff is very provocative, always engaging and even slightly repulsive but never dull. Isnt that what good art is all about?
See more at her website
I came across this artist, Paula Roland while researching encaustic painting last week. What I saw amazed me, as I had no prior knowledge of this medium. Paula paints using what’s called a “hot box”, which is basically a large plate of anondized aluminum placed over a regulated heat source. The plate heats up enabling you to spread the encaustic paint sticks on the surface of the aluminum and then manipulate and shape the wax with a scraper, squeegee or knife. The final step is to take a piece of paper and place it over the melted wax and allow the wax to imprint the paper. What makes these images fascinating is the wax the oil in the wax creates this beautiful halo around the blotches of color when it bleeds on the paper. The images are sublimely beautiful and very organic.
Click here to visit her website
Paula also has a great DVD which talks about her process – looks like another “must have”! Here is an excerpt from her DVD:
Found this shot from a trip to Northampton in 2010. It was a funky little shop on Main Street called the Casa del Sol that I missed the first time around. The building was bright red and the clothes were fun and colorful so the whole thing set up just perfectly! There were so many cool little businesses in that town. It was great to see that “Main Street Culture” is still alive and well in towns like Northampton!
