Julie T. Chapman - ArtBlog

I received this email a couple days ago and thought one or more of you might be interested:

 Hello!

You are receiving this E-mail because you have links with one or several art courses.

We, in World Artcraft (website www.art-et-artisanat-du-monde.com ) are organising our 3rd Annual contest for art classes “Discovery of new talents” (amateur painters only). This year, the thematic will be “The water”

To win: 500 euros of prizes, free exhibition spaces on our website and opportunities to give more visibility to your art course !

You can obtain all details  here :  http://www.art-et-artisanat-du-monde.com/anglais/concours_2009/index.html

Many thanks for reading this E-mail.

Karine Caire
Art et Artisanat du Monde

I haven’t heard of this show or organization before, and do not know whether it is legitimate or reputable - just passing this along.

My “Capturing the Essence” workshop at Triple D Game Farm in Kalispell took place Feb 5 - 8. Rather than bore everyone trying to describe it all, I’m going to operate on the “picture is worth a thousand words” principle. Clearly, there was a lot of suffering going on.

I just learned, through Andrew Taylor’s excellent blog (the Artful Manager) of a new capacity that Google Earth is now offering: the ability to inspect the paintings at Madrid’s Prado Museum in extreme close-up detail. In other words, Google gives us the ability to become a housefly buzzing around in front of masterpieces thousands of miles away.

Now how damn cool is THAT?

You have to have Google Earth installed, but it’s a fun toy anyway. Once you do, you can find the Museum’s images by drilling down from the Layers sidebar (Geographic Web > Places > Preview > Museo Prado > a doohickey > Museo Nacional …) and you’ll get to its “Masterpieces” area. There are 14 paintings currently available. I zoomed in on a portion of the horse’s eye and armor for “Emperor Carlos V on Horseback”.

Wow.

It’s time for my second annual Winter Workshop at Triple D Game Farm, this Thursday 2/5 through Sunday 2/8.

Last year’s workshop was in the middle of February, over Valentine’s Day…and spring arrived quite abruptly in the middle of our workshop, after nice 25 degree weather and snow preceding it. So I moved the workshop up a week for this year - and, wouldn’t you know it, we’re supposed to get highs near 48 F! That’s waaaayyyy too early for spring in western Montana (not that I’m blaming global warming or anything…). Fortunately, we had a lot of snow in December, so the compounds are in good shape.

And soon I’ll figure out a great excuse to paint one of the gorgeous big exotic cats at Triple D … as Confucius said, “The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ”

I’ll post after the workshop.