tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191681742011-07-07T13:58:57.516-07:00Andreas Dieberger: notes about art (mostly my own). I plan to keep notes about new things I'm working on, about experiments and their outcomes and general thoughts about becoming an artist...Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.comBlogger1191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1454398499583180932009-09-26T21:39:00.000-07:002009-09-26T21:46:09.370-07:00

Hi thanks for all your interest. This blog is not being updated any more (as you probably noticed by my). I thought its a good idea to leave a message here where to pick up new posts. Andreas' new Art Web site and blog is here:http://web.me.com/juggle5/Art/Welcome.htmlThe blog is accessible from that page or you can check new posts directly by going to this to: http://web.me.com/juggle5/Art/Blog

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As I haven't posted for a while I wanted to really send a quick update out. I am working an linocut that I quite like but is not completed yet. It's called "Loki and Grumpy". The design came from a rubbing I did in the hallway when I see that the wood there had some really neat texture. As I worked on it it became more and more two gnarly forest creatures in conversation.I had planned to make

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It has been for a while since I created new work. And output will stay slow but here is something now. But I hope you will like the result. Called Eye of the Whale because that is what it looks like, I think...

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these were just experiment bit started interest direction I hope I pursue some in the future...

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Hi everybody. Finally a bit of a new posting again. As I hinted at I had some health issues since the beginning of the year and I have barely done any art. But I had at least a few monotypes I created in February I had never a chance to show on the blog. Finally managed to photograph these and post a selection. The main issue is that I cannot type well so posting is time consuming. But I am

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I just found out that Works is actually alive and they are actually putting on a show. See the details here! To be in the show you have act quickly (in the next 3 days!) I plan to bring a piece. See you there!!!More infos: works, your community art and performance center, is regrouping and reopening—and you are invited to participate in the 2008 works/san josé annual members’ exhibition. the

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sorry for not writing much lately one. I an working on some pesky health issues. Typing in particular is still difficult so don't expect too many posts in the short run. I do hope to share some of the rest of the monotypes I made in March some time soon. And maybe I can also show some new work. I have worked on a few small drawings at least but much. I hope I can show some time soon :)But there

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Hi again, it seems that slowly by surely I am indeed starting to create a bit more art again. Over the last 2 weeks I spent a lot of time working with letterpress. Most of this was spent sorting type (a very meditative task I found even if most people would consider it mindnumbing. But when you are looking for a "mindfulness" exercise there is probably very little that can beat that). I didn't

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I finally finished "Untitled Abstraction", the print I was working on recently. It was planned to be a 4 color print but I liked the 3 color version so much that I decided to just print 3 colors on two of the 4 sheets, and I'm glad I did because the 3 color print is really more intersting than the 4 color one, I think. But I let you be the judge. It's a varied edition, printed on grayish recycled

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Greetings after a long time.The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated...Indeed I haven't logged in a long time. And more than that, I have actually not done any serious art in even more time. One day I might blog about all of that. For now let's just say that I am taking is very easy for a while. I do a little bit of art but not much. Every now and then I might post a few lines or a

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Thanks for showing up for all of you who visited me and Mahoney when we had our informal art gathering this week. It was a surprisingly smashing success as there happened to be a second event at the same time and suddenly the place was just packed. It was a bit hard to have a good conversation towards the end but it sure made our art look very very popular ;)The show will be at Cafe Pomegranate

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There is an important change of plans for the informal reception at Cafe Pomegranate next Tuesday! It turns out that the current week is actually the last week of classes at SJSU (I thought it was a week later). Therefore there won't be any student galleries open on that day and that means that we also cannot do a gallery crawl. All other plans stay the same. Sorry about that :(

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This is an update and a correction to the previous post: There will be just a very informal reception for "Grids". The reason is timing and planning issues, unfortunately."Grids" will show till the end of the month. But the informal reception is next Tuesday, that is Tuesday December 11th, from 5:30pm till 7pm approximately. I know this is a bit early but the cafe closes then and unfortunately

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I apologize for the lack up updates, lately.Well, I have completely been silent for a while although I actually have another show running at this very moment! Right after the previous show at the Los Gatos Coffee Roaster was taken down, the next show went up at Cafe Pomegranate in downdown San Jose. This one is a collaboration with Mahoney Perkins and focuses on the theme of grids. This shouldn't

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We have carnivores, herbivores, and even informavores... but is there a Tshirt celebrating the most delicious of all of these, the Chocovores...? Well, now there is :)And there is even a cafepress store celebrating them already, imagine that... http://www.cafepress.com/chocovore

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News update! According to latest -- unconfirmed -- reports, a band of rogue glass pumpkins by this artist are reportedly planning to crash the reception for my show next Friday at the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting company (now, how is that for a bad pun?).The pumpkins were last seen in the vicinity of the Los Gatos Whole Foods but are reportedly are moving west towards downtown Los Gatos and are

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That's right, another show! Again at the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting company and it will stay there till the end of October. I am showing only prints this time and I am deliberately setting the prices low to keep the pieces very affordable. There will be a "reception" (a very low key one) on Friday, October 19th probably around 7 or so. I'll send an evite and post more info here. The LGCR has wine

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Together with my friend Ben I am participating at the Palo Alto Glass Pumpkin Patch this week as "A+B Pumpkins". The glass pumpkin patch essentially is a show of literally thousands of mouth blown glass pumpkins and we are contributing a few of them as well. The show started today (Tuesday) and goes all week. On Saturday and Sunday (October 6+7) the pumpkins get sold.As far as I know the "Great

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Quite a while back (June) I participated in a print exchange organized by PrintZero. My original posting about this is here. This exchange has actually happened already and two sets of the prints participating are now on tour through various venues as listed below. For more details see the PrintZero web site: http://www.printzerostudios.com/(Post updated on 10/2/07)Here is a list of the exchange

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It has been way too long since I last posted here and I apologize, but there was just too much going on. But I have some exciting news to share to make up for the lack of news: not one, but several shows are coming up and one of them is actually hanging as I type this.Besides that, I have been assisting in glass blowing a lot, so I made a lot of progress creating glass pumpkin stems and I have a

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Q: What do you get when you paint with very runny, paint while listening to the Grateful Dead...?A: Maybe something like this?I call it "psychedelic flower" and I think it's a pretty fitting title. I quite like the piece. Done similarly like the previous, wild piece, except on burlap that was primed with black gesso. I combines housepaint, regular oil paint, loads of linseed oil and standoil,

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In the past few days I began combining some of the recent experiments and I also loosened up a lot. Partly this means that I will possibly have to kiss the deposit for my apartment good-bye. My apartment also acts as studio and - well - if you have carpeting and prefer not to live in a total mess, you have to hold back a little bit in your painting style... no flinging paint at the canvas from 10

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On my last post I mentioned my experiments with house-paint and from an earlier post it's obvious that I"m interested in the wrinkle effect. Here is an update about how these pieces developed / evolved over time. The photos I posted last were taken right after I had painted the pieces so the paint was nice and smooth. But did it develop wrinkles?Indeed it did. Here is a comparison, side by side

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No, I haven't been very active lately. But I have been thinking about stuff...A while back I wrote about wrinkle paint and how to achieve that. I also found out that some people use household paint for humongous (sp?) pieces and they got really nice wrinkles sometimes. Well, the pieces I'm thinking of also have about 1" of paint on them that could have something to do with it. However it may be,

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Here is a little print that was a long time in the making. I actually started this linocut almost a year ago on a trip to Austria. The original idea was capture the pattern of beech bark on a couple of trees in the garden. Essentially it showed just the 4 tree trunks. Then the plate sat there for months, untouched. A few months ago I pulled it out again and after some thinking just added some

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I didn't have too much luck with my last T-shirt design so I had to try once more. Despite what I said on the past post I'm giving cafepress another chance. So far, my store is up for over a day and they have not gone in an randomly deleted it. So far so good.Yes, it's very geeky humor, indeed. Talk about target audience and such ;)And you can get these shirts in a variety of colors from my

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Finally we can all run and get an iPhone - Thank God!Don't we all thing that Apple overdid it a bit with their legendary secrecy this time? Apparently even Apple's closest partners - the ones who are actually designing and manufacturing accessories for the iPhone - couldn't get one to make sure their stuff actually fits properly around an iPhone. Which is just silly. You can read more about this

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Well, not really...A while back (March?) one of the members of our art critique group suggested we should all try to do a bit a guerilla art. After some pondering I came up with the idea of a painting of a stop sign. I scaled the painting just so it would fit perfectly over a regular stop sign (it turns out that a 24"x24" canvas on regular stretcher bars fits perfectly). So it's a painting of a

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Finally I find some time to get to know my etching press a bit better. As my first project I was working on a small print that used drypoint and roulettes, titled "Contemplation". And just as I was getting ready to print the third state of the plate I re-discovered that there is a print exchange happening in Seattle where they are looking for small format prints. An excellent opportunity. So I

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My classes at SJSU are over - and so is my access to their print-making facility. And therefore, no more lithography for me - at least for the time being. I'm pretty sad about that, because I do enjoy the process a lot and I hope I'll have a chance to do more lithography soon.Here are photos of the last two lithographies I did at SJSU. One of them is actually done on stone, whereas all my other

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Over the course of the printing class I mentioned several times that "I'm working on this very labor-intensive 4-color lithography" but I have never actually shown it on the blog. The reason was that I'm still catching up making good photos of many pieces from the past few months, including this print.It's called "A different spin 3" because it is part of a series. The first two prints in the

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I just realized that I never put a pointer to my mom's home page into this blog. She is an artist as well so she definitely deserves a link from my blog and I just included her in my blog roll (on the right). Mom was a professional photographer all her life and now is into painting. Her site is here: http://www.wenzel-jelinek.at/Willkommen.htmlLooking at the painting page I just realize how

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The ICA (San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art) has a fund raiser every year, called the Monotype Marathon. Last year I participated as artist, this year I decided to volunteer my time to help out and help other people print their monotypes. That even happened last weekend and I helped out at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto. You can read more about the Monotype Marathon here.In addition to

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I'm fascinated by wrinkled paint...If you look through my blog you'll soon find that I'm typically very deliberate in my process and typically I try to paint in a fashion that the resulting piece is "well crafted". I consider craftmanship an important part of my art-work. The means I typically try to use the best materials I can afford, and I try to not blatantly violate the rules of a good

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Lithography is a lot of work. I've said it many times on this blog. It's also a complicated, very process-oriented endeavour and till you have done it for years and years, you need cheat sheets and lists and any other type of help you can get your hands on. We had a cheat sheet with the absolute basics in the class, but I always felt that there should be more detail. So I started writing my own

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Before I lose access to the woodworking shop at school I wanted build something I was dying to have for quite a while: a better way to store paintings that are drying. Especially when you do small scale experiments you quickly run out of shelf / table / floor space for these pieces. The solution is a drying rack. So after several hours fretting around with table saws, drill presses (for hand

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Yikes, it's almost mother's day and I don't have a nice greeting card!!! What to do? Obviously it's time for a monotype session :) Here are a few of the results. Now I just hope mom won't check my blog in the next week because that might spoil the surprise. (Luckily, I know she doesn't typically check it but waits for me to send her selected loot by email)...Normally I use oil based inks / paints

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Now that CHI (a Human Computer Interaction Conference, which was good but took up 100% or more of my time last week) is over, I can finally return to art. First of all, here are a few photos of stuff I did the week before. I experimented a bit with texture, something I am very interested in (think of painting on burlap etc.).This time I picked up an old trick to texture a painting surface that I

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Puh - finally it's done. Last week I spent 3 long afternoons/evenings to finish the 4 color lithography I mentioned in the last post. And I'm delighted to say that I messed up only one print, so I have an edition of 9 and 3 progressive proofs. And I have one more weird war-story to tell about print making (because the one print that got messed up did so because of a moth interfering with the

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Here is a short note about a project I'm working on in Lithography, and one of the reasons I haven't posted much about my litho work lately. I set my mind on doing a 4-color print in my "different spin" series. Those consist of a square plate with abstract pattern printed several times, rotated, on top of the same piece of paper. So there is less plate and drawing and etching work, but it's still

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...which would explain a certain lack of postings here, lately. And guess what: I just hit "send" on my eFiling and within mere minutes I logged into blogger to bring the world news of new art. Now isn't that something?Ok, you can all stop applauding and cheering now.Here is some art I did sort of in a rushed late night session this past week. Works San Jose had its grand re-opening on Friday (

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I seem to have fallen in love with these abstract grid pieces. Or rather, I should say "pieces developed out of the grid exercise". So, here is another one that I made on Tuesday. This time, I took photos of two intermediary stages so you get an idea how the piece evolved.I also experimented with mediums. I like the effect of cold-wax on oil paint because it makes the paint film very matte and

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Finally, the day has arrived when I could finish my first color lithography. It took forever to get to this point because I had these motivational and stress related issues a while back so I didn't make much progress. Then I made a plate for a new piece in the "different spin" series, only to realize just how much can go wrong in a color lithograph, so it probably would not be very smart to start

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Thinking back over this week, I have to say that -- aside from "mayhem on litho street" (see previous post) I had a really good art week. In painting we started talking about abstraction which is my preferred style after all. It was a very busy and somewhat stressy week at work again, but I feel better about my project now than I did before. And I think that make it possible for me to let loose a

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-62172433810873768392007-03-24T12:53:00.000-07:002007-03-24T13:06:41.011-07:00

Epitath doesn't sound good you might think, and you are right. Yes the print came out really nice when I printed it in blue on Tuesday but I had planned to pull a few more prints from that plate on Thursday in white on black paper.At first I thought I had issues mixing the white ink - the consistency just never felt quite right. I actually threw out the whole batch of ink after I put it way too

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-6528745986255047752007-03-21T23:44:00.000-07:002008-11-13T09:12:19.770-08:00

Ok, it's a corny pun related to "Lithography". Sorry, couldn't resist.I didn't post too much about lithography lately. The reason was that I didn't achieve much in the past few weeks. We started with color lithography, which is much more work. Therefore it takes a lot longer to finish a piece. Then I had my work issues, which also held me up. But I'm at a point where I suddenly have 3 prints

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-29500795432028571422007-03-21T23:27:00.000-07:002008-11-13T09:12:19.921-08:00

A while back (at the beginning of my stint at SJSU) we did these interesting grid exercises in the painting class and I posted several times about these exercises. A while later I made one more of these grid pieces, but I never had the chance to post about it (partly because this piece has a ton of paint on it and it took a while till it was dry enough to handle it for photographing). And this

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-21003080183856231332007-03-18T23:21:00.000-07:002008-11-13T09:12:20.068-08:00

Here is a new piece I painted in class last Thursday, again a landscape. But I tried to create a pretty expressive piece, mostly playing with red/yellow vs. blue/black. Originally I had planned to go for a bleak, depressive mood and the idea was to convey that also in a matte sheen of the painting. For that reason I switched to a wax medium (which makes a matte paint film) rather than the medium

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-82516990526366868632007-03-13T22:02:00.000-07:002008-11-13T09:12:20.148-08:00

As I mentioned before, the last few weeks were particularly busy in my professional (non-art) life. The idea I had in my mind was to work towards this deadline this week and then things would ease up a little bit and this would be really necessary because I'm literally working myself to pieces right now. I don't want to go into details but let's just say that after a certain meeting today it

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-66788690045866046912007-03-06T12:46:00.000-08:002008-11-13T09:12:20.397-08:00

As I mentioned in my last post, the last 2 weeks were not particularly good ones. Yes, I had that show which was great but I was (am) also so overloaded with work that I have a hard time concentrating, am short on sleep (and short tempered) and generally pretty miserable. You cannot do art in such a state of mind I find. And if you try it will typically come out pretty badly. Or, even more likely

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-32574884989425289042007-03-06T12:26:00.000-08:002008-11-13T09:12:21.018-08:00

I am a bit behind with my postings and this posting is about stuff I have created over 2 weeks ago. There is also another decent piece that I create the same week and I'll post about that some time soon. However, after that, it went only downhill (see next posting). Work became totally crazy and unpleasant you cannot make art when you are under pressure (except when you are a printing plate). But

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-41215372888700685072007-02-26T22:04:00.000-08:002008-11-13T09:12:21.601-08:00

First of all - a reminder that this week and only this week I am showing 6 prints at a SJSU show. Gallery 3, art building, San Jose State. Reception is Tuesday night. Here is a photo of the 6 pieces I'll show there. Among them the print I'm discussing in this blog posting. See also previous blog post. It's a really beautiful show - not just because I have stuff in it, but because it's all really

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-72934759479749575792007-02-23T12:35:00.000-08:002007-02-23T12:46:39.444-08:00

So yesterday I slave away (just kidding) on a lithograph which didn't work out at all (unfortunately not kidding on that part). Suddenly I get asked if I'd like to be part of the little show some of the printmakers are putting on for next week, because they don't have any relief prints in the show yet and stuff. Oh, and the stuff should be up *tomorrow*. Erm... YES!How about that for short notice

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-38092575380226943452007-02-19T23:58:00.000-08:002008-11-13T09:12:21.774-08:00

This weekend I finally found time to print a bit at home (as opposed to the printing I'm doing at school lately). This particular print is long overdue, as I started working on it when I was last in Austria, which was in September. The print came out of a joint printing / art session with my friend Karin (see link to her blog on the side).During that session I cut one plate completely and the

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-77125531478538871172007-02-18T00:33:00.000-08:002008-11-13T09:12:21.906-08:00

Harumphf - so they finally forced me to switch to a google account for this blog. I really wanted to keep my old blogger account. Not happy. I don't like to be forced.On related news... This was pretty much an off-week for me. Nothing worked well, in particular not the painting I did. We did bottle still lives and I think the results were pathetic. Yes, it's recognizable as bottle and there is

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1171436313603830062007-02-13T22:53:00.000-08:002007-02-13T22:58:33.616-08:00

Today we continued our exploration of still lives by introducing transparency. The goal was to paint a nice, realistic looking bottle. I tried to be ambitious and went for two. I didn't have such a great day though and the result is - well - soso. It's not completely horrible, but it's not really good either. Everybody has an off day every now and then. If I have the time I might go in and fix

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1171141671677918802007-02-10T12:54:00.000-08:002007-02-10T13:10:16.856-08:00

Remember the grid exercises from a week ago? Well, I liked the exercise so much that I decided to do one of these in large, which means 40" x 30". And because I often combine multiple experiments into on, I used a canvas I had not primed but just sized with PVA glue (just for the record: the size is there to protect the fabric from the linseed oil which is acidic and destroys the fabric over time

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1171003116101546572007-02-08T22:22:00.000-08:002007-02-08T22:38:36.116-08:00

Didn't I say I'm doing painting AND lithography this semester? What happened with that? Well, glad you asked... This week I was finally ready to print something. I was working on two "test plates" for last week or so. I call them test prints because they don't even try to be exciting pieces of art. Rather I'm trying to understand the medium better, and to get a feel for the softness/hardness of

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1171001907873652342007-02-08T22:06:00.000-08:002007-02-08T22:18:27.886-08:00

Surprise... more potatoes!... quite literally (because last time it was one lonely potatoe. Now the spud brigade is marching in in full strength - well, four is a crowd or such?) Well, I'm really tired, as are my jokes I guess after this really intense and exhausting day. But I - must - post - to - blog - otherwise - lydia - will - out-post - me - again!So the key thing to learn in a still life

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1170831376461865832007-02-06T22:28:00.000-08:002007-02-06T22:56:16.480-08:00

Today we started working on still lives. An excellent exercise for that is to paint potatoes. Don Feasel pointed at Van Gogh as the true potatoe master and who would argue stepping in VanGogh's footsteps? So potatoes it is. They are actually quite interesting to paint. Don Feasel gave us a really impressive painting demo at the beginning of class where he just whipped out a potato still live in -

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1170782418500125152007-02-06T09:17:00.000-08:002007-02-06T09:24:21.496-08:00

I started working on a few more of these grid exercise pieces on my own, because I think this is a really good and interesting exercise for learning to control light and focus in a piece. And I do like purely abstract pieces to start with. So here we go, another one done just in raw umber and white, with a little bit of black to finish it off. This one is a bit larger than the first one (20" x 16

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1170534154316758862007-02-03T12:17:00.000-08:002007-02-03T12:22:34.326-08:00

Don Feasel, my painting teacher coined a brilliant bonmot the other day in class. And it really totally nails it. He said:"The great thing about abstraction is that you get four chances"Which is just sooo true. What this is about is that purely abstract pieces typically can be turned around and look often very different. Typically one orientation of the piece is just right, but sometimes more

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1170458694479516412007-02-02T15:22:00.000-08:002007-02-02T15:25:22.566-08:00

*growl* I noticed that spam seems to be creeping into my blog lately. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to remove spam comments from the blog once they are on there (I could moderate all comments, but in the spirit of free comment flow I'd rather not turn that option on). Therefore now it's necessary to "prove that you are human" each time you submit a comment. Sorry about that hassle, but

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Today we did the follow-up to Tuesday's grid exercise. Just as reminder, the idea is to play with depth and space. On Tuesday we did that just with value. Now we add also color. And to make things a bit more interesting, we use only primaries, in my case I used CadYellow, CadRed and Ultramarin. I was tempted to add a cool red to the mix but resisted temptation (the blue was a warm tone, so I had

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1170224485030546462007-01-30T22:12:00.000-08:002007-01-30T22:30:04.000-08:00

So, I haven't done too much art lately... but that's about to change big time! Since last week I'm enrolled in two classes at San Jose State University (through open University): a painting class and a lithography class. Classes meet 2x a week and I plan to spend plenty of additional time working on projects at the school and create lots of work. This work might go into slightly different

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1169425519960056222007-01-21T16:14:00.000-08:002007-01-21T16:29:10.196-08:00

This comes a bit late, of course, but here is a happy new year to all of you out there, anyway.I didn't have much to blog about in the art world recently because I just didn't have much opportunity to make art. I did see a few great shows (Anselm Kiefer @ SFMOMA, the FineArt print fair at Ft. Mason center this weekend, just to mention two that jump to mind), but I just didn't have much

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1166508657594575542006-12-18T21:53:00.000-08:002006-12-18T22:30:24.953-08:00

In my last post I wrote about the series of three paintings with crosses on them and that I really liked only one of them (that's why I showed only one of them on the blog). What keeps amazing me in the art world is that no matter what I think about pieces I make there is always somebody who really likes a particular piece. (Well, maybe I should rephrase that... I'm sure I also produce stuff

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1165895706613124442006-12-11T19:43:00.000-08:002006-12-11T20:00:07.643-08:00

Dear Web,Sorry to be so silent lately but it has been a particularly busy few weeks. One could even say: it was so busy that most people would say this was a busy half-year... Unfortunately, a lot of what happened in the last few weeks was not exactly pleasant for me, however there were also a few positive events. I won't go too much into the negative parts and instead focus on the positive:The "

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1163896107468233442006-11-18T16:24:00.000-08:002006-11-18T16:45:15.510-08:00

Most visitors to my art web site have probably had a look at the "store" page, which links to a cafepress page with a few shirts and cards with some of my paintings on them. But wait, there is more! I actually have a whole list of cafepress stores with various items on them. I didn't link to them from my art site because - well - some of them are maybe a bit too off-color humor for some tastes?

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1163139510676627932006-11-09T22:00:00.000-08:002006-11-24T00:21:10.803-08:00

Update: Auction site is up: http://www.workssanjose.org/auction2006.shtmlWhen I returned to my job in Silicon Valley, after spending a blissful year at art school, people often asked me what I was planning to do with what I learnt during that year. Being a user interface design person I jokingly answered that I would deliver my next UI design document as an oil painting. Sadly, it never happened

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1162972245090382002006-11-07T23:39:00.000-08:002006-11-07T23:58:05.116-08:00

A couple of months ago I experimented with a print that consisted of just one, square, linoleum plate printed in 4 different colors, but rotated 90 degrees each time. The print is shown on my printmaking art page. I thought the result was so interesting that I had to do another one and this one became even more interesting! In an outburst of creativity, I called this second experiment "A

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1161580579698956832006-10-22T22:05:00.000-07:002007-02-04T12:45:23.460-08:00

Amazing, I have good news again! I was very lucky and found a very good deal on a brand new Ettan Etching press that was was sitting in somebody's home for 4 years, and never even got taken out of the original shipping box. The press is a real beauty!! Look at that shining black surface, the smooth roller, the perfect alignment of the press bed, the... Well, I guess I must be in love :) I

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1161226268223478212006-10-18T19:41:00.000-07:002006-10-18T20:02:38.263-07:00

I have very good news today. I submitted two monotypes to the Los Gatos Art Association Juried Member show and one of the two got accepted :) This is the first time I got a piece into a juried show and I'm just really thrilled by that! And the funny thing is that I really liked the other piece (the one that wasn't accepted) better -- I almost didn't submit the one that got picked, eventually! I

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1160249011266734902006-10-07T12:13:00.000-07:002006-10-07T18:57:05.370-07:00

I haven't painted on acrylic glass (plexiglass) in several month (see this post from half a year ago) and it was time to return to that medium for a some experiments. I always loved the warm radiance you get from these pieces when they sit in sunlight (which might be one of the reasons I'm also so addicted to glass work lately). Of course you don't always have sunlight... but nothing is perfect

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1160117367455491862006-10-05T23:33:00.000-07:002006-10-06T13:19:08.370-07:00

Today I have some quite unexpected good news: about 1.5 years ago I participated in a print exchange with the Florida Printmakers. For that exchange I made a print in an edition of 15. The idea of the exchange is that you send the 15 prints there and get 15 other prints back - randomly selected from the other submissions. Now, usually, you'd keep an artist proof of the print or at least a photo

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1160099104676313262006-10-05T18:35:00.000-07:002006-10-05T18:45:04.693-07:00

This is a problem every budding glass blower faces sooner or later: even if you blow glass only every now and then, the rate of production soon exceeds the rate of how fast you can (and want to) give stuff away to friends and family. Of course you don't want to just throw the pieces away (that comes later when you have so much that you really keep only the good stuff. Right now every piece is so

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1160073305312526132006-10-05T11:30:00.000-07:002006-10-05T11:39:56.900-07:00

Finally I'm finding time to work a bit on print making again. I'm in the middle of a pretty interesting linocut (2-3 colors, still deciding on that) which is an update version of "a different spin". When cleaning up the inks I was using yesterday night I played a bit with monotypes and here is one of the results of these experiments. Does it show I had a lot of stress at work in the past few

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1159555844186712452006-09-29T11:46:00.000-07:002006-10-06T11:08:59.656-07:00

Here is a little update on "Recent Paintings on Burlap II". The show is hanging since today in the morning and it looks really nice in the cafe. I was a bit worried at first because the cafe has yellowish walls and I was not sure how the subtle earth tones would work on that. But once the pieces were hanging I noticed it works perfectly, so I'm happy. Below are a couple of photos as proof and as

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1159040762708045142006-09-23T12:30:00.000-07:002006-09-23T13:04:18.376-07:00

Finally the dates for the new show are cast in stone. The show will go up on September 29 (in the morning) and will run till October 26th.Location: Cafe Pomegranate, 221 E. San Fernando St., San Jose, CA 95112 [cafe web site] [map]Cafe Hours: Mon - Thu 7:30am - 7pm, Fri 7:30am - 5:30 pmMeet the artist: Tue October 3rd from 5:30 - 7pmAsk at the cafe for free parking for cafe patrons (4th Street

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Just because I have not posted many updates lately, doesn't mean I was entirely idle. Actually I was working on a number of new pieces over the past 2 months, but some of them are done in a relatively time consuming technique, using a large number of glazes. The results are very interesting (dare I say pretty?) but it just takes a while if you work in oils (each layer has to dry properly before

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1156547253809085512006-08-25T16:00:00.000-07:002006-08-25T16:07:33.826-07:00

As mentioned before I'll do a paint making demo at Works San Jose tomorrow afternoon, that is Saturday 8/26/06, from 2:30pm till 4pm. Location is at 30 north 3rd street, San José, California 95112. I will bring a short handout listing materials you'll need if you want to try this yourself. Here is a pdf version of that handout.I hope I'll see you all at Works tomorrow!!

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Just a short update today... The weekend after next I will do a demonstration of how to make your own oil paint at Works San Jose. As you can see on my web site many of my pieces are made with hand-made oil paints and after the show in June I was asked to show how it's done (and it's actually pretty easy). So swing by Works San Jose on August 26 (yes, next week already) from 2:30 - 4pm and have a

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Goodness! It has been almost 3 weeks since the last posting. My only excuse is that I'm suffering from the summer heat: my place is a true scorcher. I think the thermometer is broken because it was hot, but I don't think that my balcony really had 110 deg F in the shade. But it sure was hot. And it was hotter indoors. Not a good time to get a lot of art done, but I still managed a little bit over

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And another posting about glass! I completed my 4 week glass class and added another session for practice. And it was well needed - it's really ALL about practice in glass working, I can see that already. Of course, the pieces I can create after only 20+ hours of training cannot be called glass "art", but I'm still proud of them. And - I finally made something that's actually useful: a little

Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168174.post-1151566623062494162006-06-29T00:13:00.000-07:002006-06-29T00:40:07.316-07:00

This was a very busy month... not only was there the show at the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting company (until this Saturday), and the glass blowing class and a couple of other little things. But there was also the "Monotype Marathon" organized by the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). This is a pretty cool fundraiser event for the ICA. Here is how it works:Artists find a sponsor (or they

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The last two weeks were extremely busy, that's why I didn't post anything, although there would be plenty to talk about, actually. First of all... the show reception went really well and I estimate that about 30 people showed up. I heard a lot of very positive feedback so if you haven't gone to the Los Gatos Coffee Roaster yet to look at the paintings, you still have time till the end of the

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Yesterday evening I put up my paintings in the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company. When you talk to artists about putting up your first real show there is something you hear over and over again: it's way more work than you could imagine. The are wrong. It's actually way more work than you can imagine, even if you imagine it being way more work than you could possibly imagine :) As I had lots of

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It was a long weekend and you might expect that I got a lot of art done. Well, not quite, because I am still very busy with setting up my show. But now, finally, most things are taken care of. What remains is mostly sending out invitation emails to those people who didn't get a post card (probably Wednesday) and then hanging the show on Friday. As the reception is almost a week later, that gives

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Now that all the pieces for the show in June are put together I can play a bit more with colors again (the show will focus on earth tones). But I do like intense color as well so it was time to play a bit in that space for a change. I made two pieces and one of them is actually quite interesting (see picture).Other news... I went to Silicon Valley Open studios today (this was the 2nd weekend out

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It has been way too long, but finally the wait is over *drum roll*. I just updated the store page on my web site. The "Jumping Peanut" web store contains a couple of items based on a selection from my artwork. The selection is small because the peanut is just a regular cafepress store. This means that you can have only one each type of products in the store (one mug, on large mug, on white

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This piece has been completed a couple of weeks ago already but I never had a chance to post it to the blog, so here it is, finally. I called it "The large flower" which is not very creative, but at least quite descriptive. This piece is the largest one that I have done on burlap with my own oil paints (so far). The format is 40" x 28".

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It is almost end of April and I have to get ready for a show of paintings I'll have in June at the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting company. There are two rooms there and quite a while ago I decided I'd like to put a whole series of my oil paintings on burlap in there - all in earth tones. I think this will reallly look good in that particular setting of un-plastered brick walls.I think I have enought

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Today's post is about materials, namely printing inks. I typically print with water based inks for quick test prints and then use oil based inks for the real thing (more cleanup so I use those when I print several prints not just 1-2 tests). Although I do relief prints, I typically use etching inks and change the viscosity of the ink using burnt plate oil or flash oil. I hear some people use

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Today's post is about a piece that's totally different from anything I've ever done before. Actually, this piece started as a "practical joke". Then it turned out to be much much more work than I anticipated, I got ambitious, and that's how the piece turned out the way it did. In my other life I work on user interfaces for software. In that job I often create prototypes or, more often, sketches

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A few days ago I wrote about the piece that is on show in the annual member's show at WorksSanJose right now. That post is here. "RedYellow#2" is actually a piece from a whole series of works where I am trying to limit myself to one or two colors. The series started out with several square paintings, each of which focused on just one color (blue, yellow, red). These three paintings can be seen on

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Just a pointer today... I discovered this interesting web page where somebody tested paints for yellowing over a 5 year period. I haven't read all the notes yet, but it definitely sounds interesting - just the kind of stuff I'd do. Well, actually I have done something like that for printing inks and for my acrylics but I waited only a few months and left the samples out in bright sunlight,

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I just finished printing a little linocut for the Florida Printmakers Print Exchange. The subject matter might appear a bit macabre, but the print was inspired by a photo I saw in ArtNews. As a matter of fact, the New Orleans Museum of Art itself suffered only relatively minor damage during and after Hurricane Katrina because, luckily, that building stands on a slightly higher elevation than most

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Just for a change, a little bit of advertising...On March 31st, 7-9 pm (PST) is the opening for the WorksSanJose annual member's exhibition where I will participate. More info is on the WorksSanJose web site. The show will run March 28 - April 22. WorksSanJose is on 30 North 3rd Str in downtown San Jose.I contributed a painting, acrylic on canvas. It's called "Red-Yellow #2" which is maybe not

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I was busy these last few days because I also finished a print I was working on for quite a while. It's called "A different spin" because it's based on a very simple idea: take one abstract design and print it several times, rotating the plate 90 degrees each time. Of course there are tons of possibilities. Should you use transparent inks? Opaque inks? Go from light to dark or the other way? To

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