Gone fishin'

Not really fishing, fish avoid my hook. But it's summer and I'm easily distracted. Here are a few images to fill in the gap.

Some artists working in real studios.

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Leanne Christie working on the January painting 2014, leannechristie

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Helen Frankenthaler, photographed by Ernst Haas (1969), the Bohmerian

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Kim Marcucci, kmarcucci

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-- Marge

Artists' studios online

The original idea for this post was offering information on webcams in artists' studios.  Apparently the idea is passé, since most of the links found were broken or hadn't been updated for a long time.  Ustream/art does offer some current live studio feeds.

Two exceptions to the lack of accessible webcams are Ai WeiweiCam (has an interesting back story) and Damien Hirst's site, which features timelapse videos taken in his studio.  I guess watching art being created realtime is as interesting as watching paint dry (if that's a pun, it was intended).  Here's a link to one of his works being created, "Monochromatic Sectors from Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Colour Ring, Dark Centre."

Weiwei's studio cam story goes like this: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Installs Webcams in Studio. Twenty-four hours later, China Pulls Plug on Artist's Webcams.  However, it looks like his cam page is still live (but slow) and it offers his twitter feed.

It seems the majority of artists have moved to YouTube.  While I was looking around, I found some interesting stuff about painting techniques.  You can take a look at what I found in this playlist.  Here's a sample, one by pdranitsin:

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-- Marge