Two of my digital images were juried into the Westmoreland Art Nationals this spring. They are both photo montage giclee prints, and attached. The show ran May 30 through July 5, 2009. By the way, Harpers Ferry is a fantastic spot to collect photos. Textures and tombstones seem to be popping up all over my images lately.
Images 2009
My acrylic and mixed-media on canvas painting, “The Song Came and Went,” was juried into the Images 2009 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts show at State College. This would be it.
Total redesign!
Just wanted everyone to know I’ve totally redesigned both my graphic design/editorial illustration site: www.graphx.us and my fine art site: www.norathompson.us. I was hoping to make both of them a little more classy than they had been, so I created the pages in Flash and dropped them in a main page I created in Dreamweaver. And, although it’s been up …
Images 2008
Over at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts at State College, I had a painting accepted into their annual exhibit, this year called, “Images 2008.” The painting is titled, “Scream Without Raising Your Voice,” an acrylic and mixed media on canvas. The show ran June 11-July 13.
2008 Westmoreland Art Nationals
I had a Polaroid emulsion transfer accepted into this year’s Westmoreland Art Nationals. It’s actually four transfers together on one piece of watercolor paper. I didn’t do many of these; at the time I was just experimenting with the process and had access to a Daylab Copy System. I had done direct Polaroid image transfers a few years back using …
The Golden Penn
The nice people who write and edit the Western Pennsylvania Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators quarterly newsletter (called The Golden Penn) have chosen my artwork to fill the current issue. Sorry, no link directly to the newsletter, so I guess you’ll just have to take my word for it (you kind of have to pay for it, so …
Westmoreland Biennial
This image was accepted into the Westmoreland Biennial which ran from May 11 through June 8. The exhibit included 83 works of art from 80 different artists who lived within a 125-mile radius of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The image is called “Murder of Crows,” it’s a 16″x20″ acrylic on canvas. The handwritten text in the background is partially painted over, but …
Jeeraffe
So we did a SketchCrawl at the Pittsburgh Zoo a couple weeks back. I didn’t get a lot of drawing done, but I did learn some things, mostly about myself. Things I learned from the SketchCrawl at the zoo: The animals at the zoo tend to turn their butts toward you when they realize you’re trying to draw them. It’s …
The Raw Shark Texts
So. I know I’m late. I finally got around to reading The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall, and if I’m writing about it on my blog, you should understand that means something. The book takes bites from The Matrix, Memento and Jaws. The DaVinci Code should probably be thrown in there as well, except that Hall doesn’t telegraph his passes (as my high …
One week more…
Well, for me, the semester is almost over. I’ve been teaching a Digital Imaging class for seven Saturdays now, and next week will be the last one for this class. After that, it’s nose to the grindstone to crank out some graphic design I’ve been putting off until I had more time. I’ve got two Web sites to put together, …
Pirates!
Working on a new Rotty pirate painting for my next postcard.
String of pearls
Just a fun drawing to work on.See how many different images you can getfrom just a few simple lines and shapes.