Monday, April 28, 2008

Event #10 Little Italy's Art Walk



My family and I headed downtown Sunday afternoon to experience the art walk in Little Italy. There were tons of artist booths set up. Even the art galleries were open for the public to walk on in. I saw a lot of talented artists. I noticed a lot of the photographers would mount their pics under Plexiglas somehow. It really gave the photographs an extra "pop", as Deb would say. I would like to know how they were able to mount the photo to the glass, I would have thought the adhesive would have bubbled or worse ran the colors of the photo. My mother really liked the ceramic fruit by Kent Conklin, which is a high complement since she is not a knickknack type person. It was the cherry she liked best, I think I will put it on layaway and give it for an X-Mas gift this year. There were a couple of photographers that took pictures of nature in an abstract way, which is what I like to do. I found one of the artists website but I lost the business card from the other. John Villinski took close up cactus pictures and the other artist focused on tree bark. Anyway we had a nice time even though it was 98 degrees outside.

Book is off to the Printer...

My book is finally finished and on its way to me. It should be here Tuesday. What a process to get your InDesign project into Blurb's Booksmart. I don't know if anyone else had trouble but I was stuck for a couple of hours. I didn't realize that I needed to save my InDesign as a PDF and then open the PDF and save as high resolution JPG. I was trying to get InDesign to do that????? After I figured that out it was pretty much smooth sailing. Booksmart crashed on me about five times, however most of the progress that was made was saved and it didn't cause too much of a headache. I am looking forward to seeing the print quality.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Book Progress Cont.






Book Progress














Here are the first few pages of my book. My husband doesn't like the white space... but I am not too concerned with it and actually like it...so thats that. I have seen a lot of coffee style picture books that have a lot of white space and I think its quite beautiful.

Event #9 Wyland Galleries




Wyland was another artist I found having increased fame right when I moved here. I believe he did a few murals around town and now it was announced he will be the official artist for the 2008 Olympic games. I think of all his works the murals are most impressive. How one even goes about doing large works is beyond me!

Event #8 Wentworth Gallery



This gallery was getting ready for a big gala. The featured artist was Nechita. I remember when I moved here about six or seven years ago this artist was just coming on the scene here in San Diego. She impressed the art world starting when she was only 10 years old. She really is quite amazing, she has a style very similar to Picasso's cubism. This gallery actually had the original painting she created when she was only 10 years old. Its impressive!

Event #7 Fingerhut Gallery



The main artist this gallery was featuring was Dr. Seuss. They had original oil paintings and scultures for sale. I never knew Dr. Seuss was only a pen name for Theodor Seuss Geisel. His life story is interesting in how he created his characters by piecing together parts of animal bones that his father sent him. Sounds like something my father would do. He used to collect different animal skulls for a college assignment and to this day has about 60 hanging in the garage. Another artist I kind of liked was Sergey Smirnov. I guess I like the fact that his style is very recognizable, you will always know his works when you see them. This gallery also had a couple of original pencil drawings by Picasso...I of course liked the small doodle he did named "peace dove"