Showing posts with label Artist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artist. Show all posts

Beautiful Artwork

Beautiful Artwork. Thanks for sharing "SunFlower"!

Ash The Painter

I love these artworks! Great use of color and I love the features. About the artist - "I paint natural, nappy & glamorous. I freelance & sell art locally & online. I always have something for sale! Biography I am a face portraitist and art designer. I've been in the art business for 2 years. I specialize in minimalistic art, abstract art, and ethnic art. As an independent contractor, I've painted for numerous clients filling orders for: self portraits, original artwork, business signs, logos, t-shirt designs,  and other custom art designs."
AshThePainter : Website, Facebook, Tumbler. Contact: ashthepainter@gmail.com

Art by Courageous


I would like to introduce you to an amazing Bay Area artist, by the name of Courageous.  He paints, carves wood art, sculpts and more!  I had to chance to meet with Courageous, so that I could interview him for the Naturally Beautiful Hair Blog. 

Q:   How long have you been creating art?
A:   I’ve been creating art since I had motor skills. I’ve been doing art professionally for 17 years. 

Q:   Where do you get your inspiration?
A:   I get my inspiration from many of life’s beautiful experiences such as acts of kindness from everyday folks, spectacular scenery and tranquil places and moments. I would say Gods many flowers, plants, trees, and beautiful ladies inspire me most.

Q:   What are all the types of art you create? 
A:   I have created many of types of art over the course of many years. I enjoy creating figurative oil paintings. Graphite, charcoal and pastel renderings, wood sculptures, and conceptual furniture.

Q:  What is the overall message that you try to convey in your art work?
A:   My art conveys to the viewer that there is always an inner child in each and every one of us that has the ability to dream. My art suggest a Tranquil, Loving and Seductive world that exist beyond this world that we know as reality. I hope to inspire every viewer to have the courage to create her or his own beautiful worlds. Even if these worlds exist only in our minds.

Q:  Did you study at an art school or are you self taught?
A:  No, I haven’t formally studied at any universities or continuing colleges. I was personally taught by God.

Q:  Who has been your biggest supporter in you journey to get to where you are today as an Artist?
A:  I must say God and my parents. Otherwise, I’ve had so many wonderful Angels enter my life for short and long seasons of time. They have all supported me in various ways.

Q:  What is your advice to other creative people who want to follow their dreams of being an Artist for a profession?
A:  Money is defiantly a good reason to pursue a career in art. Though there is a great potential to make a fabulous living doing art. Doing art for a living should provide peace of mind and happiness to the artist first. If your art is the peaceful place that you can retreat to then you should be able to weather the many challenges that artist often face. When the challenges come you must always remember why you first desired to be an artist to begin with, and that should be because you love making art.

Q:  How can people find you?
A:  Courageousart.com,  courageousconceptsart@gmail.com or by phone at 510 367-6824. 



Fashion Illustrationer - Lula

There is a great fashion blog called LULA.  I have always been a fan of fashion, sketching, illustration and basically all forms of art.  So this blog really caught my eye.
 
"Lula is sketched, scanned and digitally restyled. This Blog features her work titled "The Subject I know Best" consisting of a series of pictures that she describe as "Self Portraits". In her words: it's a "celebration of paper, glue, bindings, pages capturing images you can't forget". To describe herself she quotes her friend Jessica saying : "I'm not bad.I'm just drawn this way"." - Lula

Images & Content Source:  LULA 
Artist link found on: Natural Bella

N.B.H. Art Work - Artist Harvey Cahn

 
I want to give a big Thank You to a Artist Harvey C. Cahn, Jr.  He created this great piece above for the Naturally Beautiful Hair Blog & Website.  Harvey is from Louisiana and is a talented artist. See more of his work below.


 To learn more about Harvey - check him out on Facebook or Myspace.






Pencil Drawing of Amoa


Art work by talented Artist Jason Kenny. The art work above is a pencil drawing using graphite pencil.

Source:  Jason Kinney Art   & Live.Laugh.Love.Locs

Artist: Jason Kenney
Org photographer: Josh Dryk
Model:Amoa
Location: Art Love Magic office 2010
http://jasonkinneyart.com/

Natural Hair Coloring Book!?!

What if there were coloring books for our little girls and young women, that inspired them to love their natural hair?  I do not know if a coloring book like this already exist - but if they do, please reply to this post, and let us know the Title of the book and the Authors name, so we can look it up.  Until then, I thought it would be great to start a collection of Natural Hair Drawings that can be printed out and given to our kids, so they can color them in.  Here are few sketches to start off with (see artist credits below):

    
 
I will continue to add drawings to an online album, that I will create on the Naturally Beautiful Hair facebook page, to add to this collection. If you have a great sketch or know of an artist that has great sketches, please contact me at naturalhairbeauty@gmail.com.  Or you can post the photo on the N.B.H. Facebook wall.

Artist:  Jacques Provitt, Ehlin, SayaDarkholme, Ehlin, Qmab, BasicLee, Izryell, Molleren, Ebonfire, Kevin Winters

Here are a few of my own sketches, that will make great print outs for coloring pages. Enjoy!
Artwork by Karen:


Interview - Artist Walter Hamilton

Q:  I love your art work. Where do you get your inspiration from?
A:  Inspiration came from a leg injury.  This made it impossible for me to stand and dj. A lot of my investment was wasted and all the time and energy put into learning my craft at that moment was lost.  I became upset and began to break up records.  Came back down to the basement some time later and had the idea to start doing the art you now see.

Q:  Did you go to school to study art? Or are you a self taught artist?
A:  Other than the art classes that everyone takes in elementary, middle, and high school, no.  I did take a beginning painting class and beginning drawing class once at Herron Art School, but those courses were quite basic.  I have always been great at pencil and portraits; however the rate in which I finish a piece is quite slow and so I don't draw very often.

Q: How long have you been a creative person? At what point in your life did you consider yourself to be an artist?
A:  I’ve always been an artist.  From drawing afro black guys with shades to shoes onto cartoons and portraits.  Even style wise and other aspects of life and seeing things, to my cooking and food prep, to costume making, and on and on...  I have the "eye of the art".  

Q:  What part of your art career has been your proudest moment?
A:  When I sold a piece for my brother.  It was First Friday at 45 Degrees on Mass Ave, Indianapolis, last April.  I told my younger brother Gabriel, who is a great artist himself, to do a vinyl record piece of Bob Marley.  It sold that night and the feeling that I had I have never had before and haven't had since.  It was such a good feeling.

Q: What types of mediums and materials do you like to work with? Do you have goals of learning how to incorporate new material that you have not used before into your creative work?
A:  Vinyl Records is the medium of choice at the moment.  Vinyl seems to be the oldest musical listening medium that has stood the test of time.  Vinyl owners have this bond with vinyl, people will keep vinyl for years never play them, yet never throw them away.  From cleaning the vinyl to setting the needle properly in the groove, playing vinyl is a ritualistic act.  I am not quite certain what medium I will explore next, since I feel I have not fully exhausted this medium yet.  With that said I would like to explore stained glass and stand alone sculptures.  I would like something that will stay around and be a functional or at least stationary either indoors or out in the elements.  Art is problem solving and getting to how I will make it happen, I have not solved yet.

Q:  What advice would you give someone that wants to get into art? Or someone like me that loves to create art, but is feeling like they are is not progressing?
A:  Hard question...  Well I would say #1 everyone can do art.  It is important very early to understand your style and even more important not to compare what you do to others.  If you are not always looking for acceptance in your work and in this crazed journey to become better, you will enjoy all that you do.  Do whatever comes natural, and then try to build on it.  Learn from others, copy, reproduce, and don’t get too hung up on being revolutionary or original.  All these may come to you but with time, practice, with knowledge of self and style.  You can’t always draw and create the way you want to- that’s because your desire, dreams, and goals always surpass what you can actually produce.

Q: What are you futures goals as an artist?
A:  Be in the Smithsonian or another collection that will ensure that others see my work for generations.  Above all, reach as many eyes as possible!

Q:  How can people find you?
A:  Facebook: Walter Lobyn Hamilton 
Follow on twitter @Vinyartist

Giveaway!! Hair Time Art work

I would like to thank Katie from Mossy Rock Designs, for offering to host a giveaway on the NBH Blog today. For this contest, Katie is giving away the artwork above, entitled Hair Time. This artwork is on 5x7 linen textured paper. Katie is in the process of trying to adopt a young girl from Ethiopia, and profits from the sell of her art will go towards her families adoption fund!

To enter the contest, please write in and talk about why you think it is important to reach out to children in need. The winner will be chosen by Katie.  The contest ends in two weeks on Saturday, May 28th at 10 pm. Good luck!  To see more art work by Katie, visit her Etsy shop at Mossy Rock Designs.

Art by Leonceo!

I want to thank Leonceo Omar Bennett for creating this image art for me. I love this. Thank you.

Artist Brianna McCarthy

I have seen Brianna's work off and on for over a year now on the web, and have always really liked how original and unique her drawings are. Beautiful colors, features and emotion in each piece of art work.

"Brianna McCarthy is an artist who works in Trinidad &Tobago. In 2005 she exhibited work as part of the Trinidadian delegation to Venezuela for the Festival of Youth and Students XVI. In 2008 she showed a collection of drawings and paintings in a group exhibition at the Alice Yard in Trinidad and began an ongoing online exhibition of her work at briannamccarthy.blogspot.com. In 2009, her "12 Girls" was presented at Trinidad's Erotic Art Week, at the Brooklyn Bar Gallery. Brianna is currently working on a collaborative project, "Cc: Everybody" with artist, Rodell Warner. Cc:Everybody explores the modern dichotomy and interrelation between our public and private spaces and will be shown in Trinidad Erotic Art Week in July. She is also collaborating with The Cloth Design Company for Trinidad Fashion Week 2010 in May 2010.


Afro-Caribbean women have always been portrayed as strong, long-suffering, exoticised and picturesque beings against a backdrop of poverty, hardship, abuse and/or scorn. The range of emotional experience and expressions of our women in Caribbean art and culture have thus been limited to these circumstances. Her work exposes a new range of depth of expressions and emotions, which for the most part, are non existent in our recorded culture. Hopefully, her faces will add to, and possibly change the perceptions, relations and possibilities we hold for ourselves." - Source
 


To learn more about Brianna, check out her blog Passion.Fruit.