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Sketch night still on tomorrow. Will post here if we need to cancel due to weather.
Smartphone Animation Workshop is back! Saturday, March 16, noon-3pm. All you need is your Android or iPhone, a bit of free software, some cut paper and creativity. Under 16 welcome with parent (parent is free!) May 9 from 6:30-9:30 at Buzz Ware Village Center in Arden, $40. jesterartspace.org/signup
link to the family tree! nubleh.github.io/i_painted/old.html
the original mom and her painting: www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/aggom4/my_mom_painted_this_and_said_no_one_would_like_it/
*update 1: THE MOM sent me a message today and i want to share with you a video of Kristoffer (the guy who painted the mom first and started this thread) painting the mom: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wJGQ1FSvlAA
**update 2: Bryan, the artist of this “shitty water color” painting (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156630150158127&set=a.10150185083393127&type=3&theater) reached out to me and said he would like to sell this piece of work for charity! let me know if anything interested in buying 🙂
Check out this Valentine's print! Debra Baseden is running prints of her Rockabilly Girl this weekend. We are giving them to our $50 donors in February. Collect it or give to someone special. This is a single run of 25 hand-pulled linocuts. That's all! First come, first served. Sized to fit a standard 11"x14" frame, matted to 8"x10" Email us at jesterartspace@gmail.com if you are interested.
Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online
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We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children's literature.Art-o-mat is a really cool project where old cigarette vending machines are repurposed to dispense affordable original art. According to their website, most pieces sell for $5. Their site also shows that there are no Art-o-mats yet in Delaware. This one is looking for a home! The Artspace can't host it yet, but maybe someone else can?
www.artomat.org/This very unique art-o-mat is seeking a arts friendly home. Whether your venue is across the canyon or the country...it is ready to launch. Interested hosts please inquire via www.artomat.org. #artomat #artvendingmachine #denniswellsartwork
There is a good one in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC. Here's my Lines and Colors post: linesandcolors.com/2011/07/26/art-o-mat-update/
Saw these in Las Vegas - loved it!
Love this idea!
Dan Howden is a U.K. artist/printmaker/illustrator who makes amazing linocut prints using up to 90 plates. We will probably offer lino classes again in the fall, but not with 90 plates!
His website: cargocollective.com/DanHowden
Via : www.itsnicethat.com/articles/dan-howden-linocut-prints-illustration-240119
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This animation is amazing, but pay attention to the audio. It will make you forget this is made of clay.2500 still pictures played at 24 frames per second. Shot with a Canon EOS 600D and animated in Dragonframe. The clay I used is called PLASTILINA. Everything ...
I just spent a marvelous afternoon teaching a decoupage workshop for Jester Artspace. It’s so exciting to see the creative spirit in action. My students will first say “I’m lost”. With some guidance, they reach the “I see” stage as they start to problem solve. The best part is when they step back from their project, appreciate each other’s work, and assess the huge accomplishment they just achieved. Job well done ladies!
These are collage under glass, all created today, in different states of finished-ness.
Decoupage on Glass Workshop with Susan Benarcik
This class is sooo much fun! Its colorful, creative, and you take home a beautiful piece of functional art. Sign up ASAP.
When: Saturday... tomorrow
Noon-3pm
Where: Buzz Ware Village Center, Arden
Cost: $60 includes all fees and materials
Sign up here: jesterartspace.org/signup
What a great sketch night with Daralene! She was so much fun to draw and great with the poses. It's also very gratifying to see our models smile when they check out the drawings. Couldn't make it? Dont despair! We're definitely having her back!
She was great, as was this group. Thanks to all involved!
Great costume.
Congratulations to Susan Benarcik for her 2019 artist fellowship award from the Delaware Division of the Arts! We are lucky to have her as a founding board member and volunteer instructor. Well deserved!
news.delaware.gov
Twenty Delaware artists and three Honorable Mentions to receive recognition Wilmington, Del. (January 14, 2019) – Twenty Delaware artists are being recognized by the Division for the high quality of their artwork. Work samples from 136 Delaware choreographers, composers, musicians, writers, folk a...
Yaaayyyy!!!! Congrats again, Susan Benarcik!!!🙏🏻😎❤️
Congratulations Susan Benarcik❤❤❤
Beautiful cut-paper puppetry used to tell the story of the discovery of a living coelacanth in 1938!
On a related note, we will have an intro workshop In March for creating cut-paper animation with your smartphone! jesterartspace.org/signup
The Living Fossil Fish - Animated Life - The Kid Should See This
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In 1938, South African museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer came across a strange blue fin poking out of a pile of fish. With its fleshy, lobed fins and its tough armored scales, the coelacanth dSome photo inspiration on this snowy day
Quiet Winterscape Photos Capture the Stillness of Trees in Freshly Fallen Snow
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Photographer Håkan Strand's monochromatic palette emphasizes the stark and intentionally minimalist landscape of silent moments in nature.Well there's an idea for a workshop
A Quirky Book About Crafting With Cat Hair
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Crafting With Cat Hair by Kaori Tsutaya and translated from Japanese by Amy Hirschman is an instruction book that shows how to make fun items from shedded