"You've got to look at the humour of these things" ... Greg Doyle on the slab in Jeremy Simons's winning photograph.


Photo: Jeremy Simons
Simons, who specialises in photographing food, travel and portraits, won the professional category. An aspiring writer, poet and photomedia artist, Niobe Syme, took the student prize for her montage of Ying Tam, the restaurateur of Ying's Seafood Restaurant at Crows Nest. Eight Yings Make is multiple images of Mr Ying in his kitchen.
Greg Doyle says his feet nearly froze off when he posed for winning portrait.
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A special thank you to Indee @ The Art Zoo
A Photoblog featuring handmade products by independent artisans and crafters for posting one of my portraits...








Procrastination

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Important Australian Art


Heath Ledger - Latest related coverage

Ledger's Joker remembered Dark Knight actors Christian Bale and Aaron Eckhart pay tribute to Heath Ledger's final performance.

Kidman's baby name mystery solved

Nicole Kidman's father has revealed he suggested naming his granddaughter Sunday, having been inspired by artist Sidney Nolan's muse Sunday Reed. Reed was a well-known figure in Australia's art scene during the early 20th century, and spent the 1930s in a three-way love triangle with her arts patron husband, John, and painter Nolan. [Read more]

This will make your smile

Dance like Matt This youtube star knows how to shake it - but do you? Watch it again!

What's a painting worth?
Quentin McDermott tells how Australia's booming art market is open to manipulation – and artists and buyers to exploitation.

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Gymnastics on the street

A cheeky French youtube video parodying Romanian gymnasts with a funny display of gymnastics on buses and trains

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The Sydney Morning Herald - the list - March 1-7 2008


thanks to Rachel Olding
click on image to read the interview

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Easter with Sheila
Sheila is a big pink bra and the brain child of Leigh from All for Women
Sheila has been travelling around Australia and I was her host over Easter... part of the requirement is to have a photo taken wearing the big pink bra...

ladies you can still join the Sisterhood...
see the photos here

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WIP: Portrait of Colin's Daughter
further progress on mouth...teeth...hair...and top...

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
Charcoal grey, Ivory black & Titanium white
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Random Picks from the Top 101 Artists' List - # 36 Maya

People, their moods, expressions and emotions have been a source of wonder for Ujwala, and this is reflected in her work. Her portraits capture the subtlety of human emotions, and present with impact the personality of the subject. Ujwala uses a variety of medium ranging from oil on canvas, charcoal on paper to the digital medium to convey her impressions.

Thanks to Debbie for picking the lucky number this week...



Art News/Exhibitions
MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Current Exhibitions ...

Callum Innes (born 1962) is a Scottish abstract painter and former Turner Prize nominee. Innes is a painter who has tended to work alternately on a number of disparate series, each of which he repeatedly revisits. His characteristic form of coolly atmospheric abstraction has aptly been described as "unpainting", given that key compositional elements are generally produced, not by the application of paint, but through its removal by washes of turpentine. Each finished painting thus suggests a freezing in time of the otherwise momentary arrest of an ongoing process.
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National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra
Exposed painting black oxide


Anna's brush with new found fame
If Anna Rubin were to write the story of the past five years of her life as a screenplay, it would be considered so ridiculously contrived, so obviously pitched with Julia Roberts in the lead role, that every agent would surely dismiss it. More



If you only steal one masterpiece this year ...

Most of the top-10 lists you see in the newspapers will have been voted for by the general public. But when it comes to art, there is an alternative list, picked by a shadier, shiftier bunch: the men and women who make a career out of stealing it.
The art thieves' top 10, based on information on stolen works compiled by the London-based Art Loss Register, is an exclusive selection, running from Picasso at No 1 to Matisse at 10, via Miro at 2, Chagall at 3, Dalí at 4, Renoir at 5, Dürer at 6, Rembrandt at 7, Warhol at 8 and Rubens at 9. None of the French masters whose works were stolen at gunpoint from a Swiss museum this week makes it: Degas is at 15, Cézanne at 25. So what makes a Picasso so much more tempting than even such undeniably great and popular artists? More
Missing ... detail of Maya with her Doll by Pablo Picasso





Top 30 Famous Artists

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Kris @ Art & Clairvoyance who received this Excellent Award from Irene @ Sweet Wood Talking has passed it on to me ...
thanks so much Kris...
I am passing this on to 6 excellent poets and writers - Hanna Catsy Lyn Netster Archie and Robert







Museum Exhibit/Art News

Diana: a Celebration
A personal exhibition from her family's home paints an intimate portrait of the late Princess of Wales... at the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney)

Thieves steal Picasso paintings

Bacon triptych brings home $58 million

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thanks to Vin for help with my recent Header problems !!

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You are never too young or too old to paint !!!!

Discover The Best 101-Year-Old Artist In The World

Good things come to those who wait. CBS 2's Scott Rapoport tells us the story ...of a 101-year-old woman who has painted her whole life.
View the video here


and the Youngest Professional Painter in the World...

Art army Films Presents: Phoenix Trinity Perego




and on a completely different note.....

Super Bowl blog: Live with Gil Brandt and Pat Kirwan

I'm backing the Giants !!!

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Update on Christie's auction this week

A portrait of Conrad Black was sold for $240,000 (£116,000) at Christie’s in New York on Wednesday to help pay off the former media baron’s debts.


Christie's is holding its bi-annual Post War and Contemporary Art Sale

A Los Angeles art dealer, Michael Kohn, bought the portrait, one of four which Andy Warhol made in 1981, when Black was 37.

Portrait of Conrad Black", measuring 40 inches square, was part of a sale by the world’s largest auction house that has confounded fears of a collapse in the contemporary art market as the credit crunch in the US has hit the spending power of even the very rich.


In the first session, on Tuesday night, a Warhol portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, owned by the actor Hugh Grant, went for $23.6m after Christie’s had predicted a sale price of at least $25m. [more]

John @ Homeless Family Blog very kindly awarded me with the Bloggers with Integrity Award passed on to him by Shinade

I'm passing this award on to

Adam @ MY ONLINE WORLD....for being such an active "shouter" at Digg

Leigh @ All for Women
All for Women is an online community for every day Women to get together and chat, make friends, and get support and advice on all stages of life. Topics include Parenting, cooking and recipes, pets, hobbies, health and beauty and much more.
and do check out Leigh's Sisterhood of the travelling Bra..... one word ...Fun !!!!

Megan @ Imaginif.....for all the wonderful work she is doing with her BlogLog Community and Child Protection...
here's what she says about the community
A Child Protection Community. Imaginif, no child abuse.
Welcome to YOUR child protection community. Our collective faces say we support the end of child abuse. Membership gives you a positive link (Wednesday after join) a randomly ascribed anonymous blogging buddy. Someone gets you to visit support too.

and the Elf just because he is the Blog Elf and he loves getting stuff !!!






my terrific gal pal Mary Ann @ Maryannaville™
gave me this great attitude award passed onto her by Colin ....
thanks MA you're the best !!!!

I am passing this on to....

Kimmy @ purplefrogcat 2

Maunie @ Maunie's Place

Jos @ NoDirectOn (not: NoDirection)

and the Elf !!!!




PS
I saw this great word meaning game over at Leighs and couldn't resist playing....
I won 500 grains of rice before I got knocked out.....very addictive and educational !!!!







thanks Mary Ann

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............and the winner is John Beard with his painting of Janet Laurence.

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