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You Should Commission This Woman!
1 min read
jojoseames has it all when it comes to her art: great personal style, intelligence, facility with her medium of choice, and she is bold! As a huge plus, she also knows, loves and creates comics. Unfortunately, she is having some financial troubles at the moment and could really use this community's help!
She is open for commissions, starting at $10, and she has some great work ready for sale in her Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/JSeamesIllus…
You, my fine deviants, are going to be in for a treat perusing her gallery. Here are a few of my favorites from her page:
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So, take a look at her work, and support this fantastic artist!
She is open for commissions, starting at $10, and she has some great work ready for sale in her Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/JSeamesIllus…
You, my fine deviants, are going to be in for a treat perusing her gallery. Here are a few of my favorites from her page:
:thumb283637681: :thumb320445661: :thumb272394430:
:thumb205480194: :thumb352782762: :thumb332585869:
So, take a look at her work, and support this fantastic artist!
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Big News About a Big Show!
4 min read
Hello, my fellow deviants! Hope 2013 is treating all of you well so far.
First of all, I want to say a big thank you to all of my devwatchers, and visitors to my gallery. Your support and love mean a great deal to me, and so much that is good in my life has happened in part because of deviantArt. Without dA, I wouldn't have met my husband, and I probably wouldn't have felt encouraged to embark on the big and often scary adventure of pursuing an art career instead of settling for doing it in my spare time. Without the encouragement I found here, I might have been in a very different place with my art than I am today.
So with that in mind, I want to share a big piece of news with my favorite art community on the web.
I live just a few miles south of Laguna Beach, which is one of the biggest (and perhaps oldest) art communities in Southern California. Every summer for the past 81 years, from the end of June to the end of August, Laguna Beach has held a two-month celebration showcasing artists that are residents of Laguna Beach and a few other surrounding cities, including Dana Point, which is where Dave and I have lived since 2004. It is called The Festival of Arts www.foapom.com/, and features 141 artists working in many different media, from painting, to sculpture, to photography. Hundreds of artists apply to the show every year, but only a handful of first-time exhibitors make it through the two-stage jurying process (most of the artists exhibiting at the show have been doing so for years).
Three years ago, I worked up the courage to submit my work to the Festival's jury, and I have applied every year since. I am overjoyed to report that after two previous unsuccessful attempts to make it in to the Festival, this time, I was successful. This year, I am an exhibitor! This is my first big group show, and I am actually still flabbergasted that I made it in, given the caliber of work that is on display at the Festival.
This means that my sculptures will be on display (and up for sale) for 64 days during the very busy tourist season in Laguna Beach. On average, 3,000 people attend the Festival each day during its run. It also means that I will be working like a madwoman from now until the opening so that I have plenty of work to show, which in turn means that dA is going to be seeing a lot more work from me this year. I'm overwhelmed by the massive amount of work that lies ahead for me, but I'm also extremely excited about what this year might bring for me.
On a different note, I sent off photos of the Ijiraq to Spectrum Fantastic Art yesterday. Even though making it into Spectrum's annual is always a long-shot, I'm just excited to have entered, and even more excited knowing that one of my favorite sculptors, Tim Bruckner www.timbruckner.com/, is a member of the jury this year, and that he will be looking at photos of my sculpture. That's just cool to think about, even if nothing comes of it.
Thanks again to those of you out there who have chosen to stop by and peruse my gallery and offer your support and encouragement. Thank you for expressing your enjoyment for the work that I do. You guys are wonderful, and I feel so lucky to have you around. Thanks for being here, not just for me, but for each other. This community isn't perfect (after all, nothing is), but I don't know where I'd be without it.
Oh, yeah: if any of you are in the area and can make it to the Festival this summer, I am going to try to be at my booth as often as I possibly can, so stop by and say "hi" if you can! All the info you need about the Festival can be found by clicking here: www.foapom.com/.
As always, thanks for reading!
First of all, I want to say a big thank you to all of my devwatchers, and visitors to my gallery. Your support and love mean a great deal to me, and so much that is good in my life has happened in part because of deviantArt. Without dA, I wouldn't have met my husband, and I probably wouldn't have felt encouraged to embark on the big and often scary adventure of pursuing an art career instead of settling for doing it in my spare time. Without the encouragement I found here, I might have been in a very different place with my art than I am today.
So with that in mind, I want to share a big piece of news with my favorite art community on the web.
I live just a few miles south of Laguna Beach, which is one of the biggest (and perhaps oldest) art communities in Southern California. Every summer for the past 81 years, from the end of June to the end of August, Laguna Beach has held a two-month celebration showcasing artists that are residents of Laguna Beach and a few other surrounding cities, including Dana Point, which is where Dave and I have lived since 2004. It is called The Festival of Arts www.foapom.com/, and features 141 artists working in many different media, from painting, to sculpture, to photography. Hundreds of artists apply to the show every year, but only a handful of first-time exhibitors make it through the two-stage jurying process (most of the artists exhibiting at the show have been doing so for years).
Three years ago, I worked up the courage to submit my work to the Festival's jury, and I have applied every year since. I am overjoyed to report that after two previous unsuccessful attempts to make it in to the Festival, this time, I was successful. This year, I am an exhibitor! This is my first big group show, and I am actually still flabbergasted that I made it in, given the caliber of work that is on display at the Festival.
This means that my sculptures will be on display (and up for sale) for 64 days during the very busy tourist season in Laguna Beach. On average, 3,000 people attend the Festival each day during its run. It also means that I will be working like a madwoman from now until the opening so that I have plenty of work to show, which in turn means that dA is going to be seeing a lot more work from me this year. I'm overwhelmed by the massive amount of work that lies ahead for me, but I'm also extremely excited about what this year might bring for me.
On a different note, I sent off photos of the Ijiraq to Spectrum Fantastic Art yesterday. Even though making it into Spectrum's annual is always a long-shot, I'm just excited to have entered, and even more excited knowing that one of my favorite sculptors, Tim Bruckner www.timbruckner.com/, is a member of the jury this year, and that he will be looking at photos of my sculpture. That's just cool to think about, even if nothing comes of it.
Thanks again to those of you out there who have chosen to stop by and peruse my gallery and offer your support and encouragement. Thank you for expressing your enjoyment for the work that I do. You guys are wonderful, and I feel so lucky to have you around. Thanks for being here, not just for me, but for each other. This community isn't perfect (after all, nothing is), but I don't know where I'd be without it.
Oh, yeah: if any of you are in the area and can make it to the Festival this summer, I am going to try to be at my booth as often as I possibly can, so stop by and say "hi" if you can! All the info you need about the Festival can be found by clicking here: www.foapom.com/.
As always, thanks for reading!
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This journal entry was long overdue, but better late than never, I guess, right?
I'm still here, still sculpting (should have new photos of my latest piece very, very soon!), and officially cancer-free, which is a relief (though not a surprise, given the fact that thyroid cancer is not really a big deal). I've finally got my medication worked out with my endocrinologist, and thankfully feel pretty much back to normal.
If there's one positive thing that came out of this whole ordeal, it's the fact that I have a renewed love for what I do, so much so that my drive to work now drowns out the doubts and uncertainties that have been plaguing me for years. I know we all have an internal critic, but for the past few years, mine has really been dominating the artistic process to the point that I often didn't sit down and do my work for days at a time. Feeling guilty over not sitting down and doing my art also made it harder to get back to it. Reading Steven Pressfield's War of Art (I highly recommend it to everyone!) helped immensely, but I really think facing my own mortality (even in only a very minor way) has made the biggest difference. Life is so short, time is so fleeting, and I know I absolutely have to do my art to make the most of it.
Thanks again to all of the folks on dA who sent me well-wishes after I announced that I was sick and going in for surgery. Knowing that I had all of you pulling for me helped a bunch.
With that update out of the way, I want to take a second to write about a great anatomy application for the iPad, iPod, and other Apple products (though the creator is promising a pc/android app soon as well). It's called L'écorché, and it's available in the Apple Store for five bucks. It's been a game-changer for me, and has definitely helped me beef up my anatomy skills a bit. The app is pretty simple and straightforward; on the screen of whatever device you're using, you can rotate a 3-dimensional human anatomy model based on a sculpture created by Jean-Antoine Houdon. The creators of the application scanned a cast of Houdon's écorché (French for "flayed," meaning the sculpture shows musculature visible with the skin removed), and then updated the data from the scan. The application contains the original scan, the updated model, a simple planar view of model, and a skeleton with all bony landmarks highlighted. All of these models can be rotated in every direction imaginable. The pose is fixed, but despite that, this application is incredibly useful, especially for only 5 bucks! There's also a free version which contains the Houdon model and skeleton only, if you are curious and want to test it out. The application doesn't replace anatomy texts for artists, but it is a very useful tool to have alongside them. I love it when technology can be used to help artists hone their skills, and this application is a great example of that. Hope some of you reading are able to check it out.
As always, thanks for reading! More sculptures to come very, very soon!
--Rachel
I'm still here, still sculpting (should have new photos of my latest piece very, very soon!), and officially cancer-free, which is a relief (though not a surprise, given the fact that thyroid cancer is not really a big deal). I've finally got my medication worked out with my endocrinologist, and thankfully feel pretty much back to normal.
If there's one positive thing that came out of this whole ordeal, it's the fact that I have a renewed love for what I do, so much so that my drive to work now drowns out the doubts and uncertainties that have been plaguing me for years. I know we all have an internal critic, but for the past few years, mine has really been dominating the artistic process to the point that I often didn't sit down and do my work for days at a time. Feeling guilty over not sitting down and doing my art also made it harder to get back to it. Reading Steven Pressfield's War of Art (I highly recommend it to everyone!) helped immensely, but I really think facing my own mortality (even in only a very minor way) has made the biggest difference. Life is so short, time is so fleeting, and I know I absolutely have to do my art to make the most of it.
Thanks again to all of the folks on dA who sent me well-wishes after I announced that I was sick and going in for surgery. Knowing that I had all of you pulling for me helped a bunch.
With that update out of the way, I want to take a second to write about a great anatomy application for the iPad, iPod, and other Apple products (though the creator is promising a pc/android app soon as well). It's called L'écorché, and it's available in the Apple Store for five bucks. It's been a game-changer for me, and has definitely helped me beef up my anatomy skills a bit. The app is pretty simple and straightforward; on the screen of whatever device you're using, you can rotate a 3-dimensional human anatomy model based on a sculpture created by Jean-Antoine Houdon. The creators of the application scanned a cast of Houdon's écorché (French for "flayed," meaning the sculpture shows musculature visible with the skin removed), and then updated the data from the scan. The application contains the original scan, the updated model, a simple planar view of model, and a skeleton with all bony landmarks highlighted. All of these models can be rotated in every direction imaginable. The pose is fixed, but despite that, this application is incredibly useful, especially for only 5 bucks! There's also a free version which contains the Houdon model and skeleton only, if you are curious and want to test it out. The application doesn't replace anatomy texts for artists, but it is a very useful tool to have alongside them. I love it when technology can be used to help artists hone their skills, and this application is a great example of that. Hope some of you reading are able to check it out.
As always, thanks for reading! More sculptures to come very, very soon!
--Rachel
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Some Less-Than-Great News...
2 min read
Hey all you fantastic deviants who also happen to watch my little corner of this gargantuan but often amazing community,
Some of you know from the amazing
's recent journal that I underwent surgery on the 22nd. It was pretty minor, just a procedure to remove a mass on part of my thryoid. Well, they biopsied the sucker and even though the odds were in my favor against it being cancer, that's exactly what it turned out to be.
So I go in for surgery number two next Thursday (April 5th) to remove the rest of my thyroid. Later, I'll receive a radioactive iodine treatment and an x-ray to identify the presence of any lingering cancer cells (unlikely). But after that, I shouldn't need any further treatment, because thyroid cancer is not very aggressive at all.
I'll be on synthroid or similar medication for the rest of my life, but thankfully, my life isn't going to be shortened by this at all. I'll count myself extraordinarily lucky if this is the worst health problem I have to experience. It's not much fun being sliced and stitched and it really is going to suck to spend another night away from home in a hospital bed, but I'll get through it just like I did the last time.
So even though I've been kind of slow with the art so far this year, once I'm healed up and back to my old shenanigans, there will definitely be more sculptures and jewelry forthcoming.
As always, thanks for reading!
Rachel
Some of you know from the amazing
's recent journal that I underwent surgery on the 22nd. It was pretty minor, just a procedure to remove a mass on part of my thryoid. Well, they biopsied the sucker and even though the odds were in my favor against it being cancer, that's exactly what it turned out to be. So I go in for surgery number two next Thursday (April 5th) to remove the rest of my thyroid. Later, I'll receive a radioactive iodine treatment and an x-ray to identify the presence of any lingering cancer cells (unlikely). But after that, I shouldn't need any further treatment, because thyroid cancer is not very aggressive at all.
I'll be on synthroid or similar medication for the rest of my life, but thankfully, my life isn't going to be shortened by this at all. I'll count myself extraordinarily lucky if this is the worst health problem I have to experience. It's not much fun being sliced and stitched and it really is going to suck to spend another night away from home in a hospital bed, but I'll get through it just like I did the last time.
So even though I've been kind of slow with the art so far this year, once I'm healed up and back to my old shenanigans, there will definitely be more sculptures and jewelry forthcoming.
As always, thanks for reading!
Rachel
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An Excellent Resource for Sculptors
3 min read
This is a repost from my blog (rachelyoungsculpture.blogspot.…), but I'm so impressed with this book that I wanted to post this on deviantArt as well.
Until very recently, I've been a little out of the loop as far as the sculpting community goes, but I found out about a week and a half ago that one of my favorite sculptors teamed up with two other wonderful gentlemen to give sculptors one of the most thorough, detailed books on sculpting and mold-making that I've yet to see.
Pop Sculpture by Tim Bruckner, Ruben Procopio and Zach Oat would be a steal at twice or even thrice the price Amazon is asking. That's no exaggeration when you consider that EVERY page contains tack-sharp, full-color photographs that detail every step of the process of taking concept artwork and turning it into a three dimensional piece of artwork. There's also a section on sculpting a fully articulated action figure, as well as in-depth discussions of tools, different sculpting media, paints, and photography, not to mention some advice on good business practices. Tim even shares his own recipe for the sculpting wax he uses! The writing is entertaining, informative, descriptive and detailed without being dull for one second. Each page is skillfully laid out in a way that makes my eyes happy, and oh, there are SO many photographs of beautiful, finished sculptures from a variety of artists in addition to everything else I've described.
It will have you lusting after wax pens and cel vinyl paints, but it will also inspire you and encourage you to explore your sculpting potential to the fullest.
What else can I say? It's 272 pages of full-color goodness, for around $20 on Amazon.
Some links of interest:
Tim Bruckner's website: www.timbruckner.com/
Link to the book on Amazon: amzn.com/0823095223
Giles Wax Pen: gilesstudio.com/
Cel Vinyl Paints: www.cartooncolour.com/
skulpturro (my incredibly wonderful boyfriend) got me the Giles Wax pen as an early birthday present. We ordered it last night and it should be here sometime this coming week. I'll try to blog about it when I've had a chance to play with it, but from what I've read, it's a piece of really reliable equipment. It should be extremely useful in my jewelry making in addition to my sculpture. I can't wait to mix up a batch of Tim's wax and play around with it.
Until very recently, I've been a little out of the loop as far as the sculpting community goes, but I found out about a week and a half ago that one of my favorite sculptors teamed up with two other wonderful gentlemen to give sculptors one of the most thorough, detailed books on sculpting and mold-making that I've yet to see.
Pop Sculpture by Tim Bruckner, Ruben Procopio and Zach Oat would be a steal at twice or even thrice the price Amazon is asking. That's no exaggeration when you consider that EVERY page contains tack-sharp, full-color photographs that detail every step of the process of taking concept artwork and turning it into a three dimensional piece of artwork. There's also a section on sculpting a fully articulated action figure, as well as in-depth discussions of tools, different sculpting media, paints, and photography, not to mention some advice on good business practices. Tim even shares his own recipe for the sculpting wax he uses! The writing is entertaining, informative, descriptive and detailed without being dull for one second. Each page is skillfully laid out in a way that makes my eyes happy, and oh, there are SO many photographs of beautiful, finished sculptures from a variety of artists in addition to everything else I've described.
It will have you lusting after wax pens and cel vinyl paints, but it will also inspire you and encourage you to explore your sculpting potential to the fullest.
What else can I say? It's 272 pages of full-color goodness, for around $20 on Amazon.
Some links of interest:
Tim Bruckner's website: www.timbruckner.com/
Link to the book on Amazon: amzn.com/0823095223
Giles Wax Pen: gilesstudio.com/
Cel Vinyl Paints: www.cartooncolour.com/
skulpturro (my incredibly wonderful boyfriend) got me the Giles Wax pen as an early birthday present. We ordered it last night and it should be here sometime this coming week. I'll try to blog about it when I've had a chance to play with it, but from what I've read, it's a piece of really reliable equipment. It should be extremely useful in my jewelry making in addition to my sculpture. I can't wait to mix up a batch of Tim's wax and play around with it.
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