" Hiding Fox" 11x14 original acrylic painting on canvas red fox abstract unique

Paint still wet when took the pictures 

 --so keep that in mind while looking .

OOAK

one of a kind paintings

abstract

 " Hiding Fox " 

by

C. Wright

12-31-11

 11x14 original acrylic painting on  canvas

    
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This is the coolest thing ---- art shows up in the 

most interesting places ---

 everything is  art !!!

Happy New Year !!!     

Tiny Bubbles: Favorite Drinks, Once Magnified, 

Become Art

By Tiffany Hagler-Geard

New Year’s  Cocktail

New Year’s Eve is a time for merriment and drinking. Nothing rings in the new year like a glass of bubbly but have you ever wondered what exactly is going into our bodies as we sing Auld Lang Syne? At FSU’s chemistry department, in correlation with Bevshots, scientists have taken classic cocktails and magnified them up to 1000 times, producing some  breathtaking images reminiscent of Kandinsky, and other abstract painters. All images can be purchased at the Bevshots website.

Just like snowflakes no two beverage crystals are exactly the same. An up-close-and-personal view of vodka is shown here.

With a process developed at Florida State University, BevShots, based in Tallahassee, Fla., produces colorful images of wine, liquor and beer magnified up to 1,000 times. The company sells them to buyers as works of art. “Each image is a picture of beverage crystals taken through the lens of a polarized light microscope,” said Lester Hutt, the company’s president.  Scotch is shown here.

A microscopic picture of white wine is shown here. These colorful microscopic “shots” of alcoholic drinks reveal the incredible molecules that make up our favorite potent potables.  They are sold as art works for buyers who appreciate the kaleidoscopic effects of the booze.

Next time you take a shot of tequila, remember that this is what it looks like when you zoom in.

Depending on the difficulty of crystallizing a beverage, the process can take anywhere from four weeks to more than six months. Red wine crystals are captured in this image.

A microscopic view of a glass of bubbly is shown here.

This is the only non-alcoholic beverage magnified– who knew each drop of a popular soft drink  could look like this? A microscopic picture of Coca Cola taken in the chemistry department of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla.

To form the crystals, Lester Hutt said drops of a beverage are placed on a glass microscope slide to dry out. As the cocktail dries, the ingredients and impurities form crystals. To find crystals beautiful enough to use as art, Michael Davidson, the scientist who shot the images, often creates more than 200 slides of the same drink. A close-up image of American light beer is photographed here.

The variation in color and shape comes from the composition of the crystals, Hutt said. Some mixed cocktails, such as Pina Colada (shown here), contain a lot of sugar, which forms crystals differently than liquors like vodka with fewer impurities, he said.

The colors may look like they’re manipulated by photo-editing software, but Hutt said they are real as real can be. As the polarized microscope light passes through the crystals, the light is refracted and creates a rainbow. The many colors of Mexican beer are show here.

found this article here ---- http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/tiny-bubbles-your-favorite-drinks-magnified/

I have just added the new google+ thingy to my blogs --- or the other way around ---for my art blog anyway --hope I know what I am doing !!

Thanks for your patience in this matter anyway!

Artist's Homemade Christmas Cards !

Artists' Homemade Christmas Cards

This is an interesting look at artist's Christmas cards !
check out the link to the slideshow --- 
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?c=y&articleID=69320392&page=1

Recycle and make unique christmas trees

This is really something to check out for Christmas !!

Recycle and make unique christmas trees

Signing Your Art, Sign Clearly, Signature Tips

Something good to know about signing your artwork ---- need to read this article --- Signing Your Art, Sign Clearly, Signature Tips

How does the color affect the mood?

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Prints

In the 1960s, Andy Warhol created several “mass-produced” images from photographs of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Jackie Onassis.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was a key figure in Pop Art, an art movement that emerged in America and elsewhere in the 1950s to become prominent over the next two decades.

The Fauves used non-representational color and representational form to convey different sensations. Apply the same idea to the portrait of Marilyn Monroe below, using the controls to adjust the colors. How does the color affect the mood?

Unlike the Fauve colors, the non-representational colors of Pop Art do not depict the artist’s inner sensation of the world. They refer to the popular culture, which also inspires Warhol to experiment with the technique of silkscreen printing, a popular technique used for mass production. In doing so, Warhol moves away from the elitist avant-garde tradition. Initially, many spectators received this new marriage between art and commodity culture with little enthusiasm.

Warhol discusses his choice of color in this 1981 recording. Press the play button to listen to his comments.

On the occasion of Marilyn Monroe’s suicide in August 1962, Warhol used this image for his screenprinting. It was a publicity shot by Gene Korman for the film Niagara, made in 1953.

I found this article here --- http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html

Up Evergreen Trees The Easy Way

Interesting video on flesh colors for portrait !