Mary Brooks' Gallery of Creative Arts

04/02/2016

Many of the artists who were Mr. Chow regulars at their peak in the ’80s—Julian Schnabel, Kenny Scharf, Red Grooms, Francesco Clemente, and so on—are experiencing a popular resurgence now. Chow has not been overlooked in this nostalgic reassessment. Schnabel, who is not exactly known for praising others, toasted Chow at an event last year at Art Basel Miami Beach. (Or, he attempted to. The speech devolved into a Schnabelian rebuke of the audience.) Chow’s first solo show in the United States is on view now at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. And Chow, along with his wife Eva, will be honored next Monday at the New York Academy of Art’s Tribeca Ball.
http://www.artnews.com/2016/03/30/artists-can-do-anything-in-our-restaurant-michael-chow-on-food-painting-and-mae-west/

04/01/2016

Zaha Hadid, whose radical, abstract, and digitally inflected designs earned critical praise, ignited controversies, and earned her a place as one of today’s leading architects, a profound achievement in field long dominated by men, has died of a heart attack in Miami. She was 65.
http://www.artnews.com/2016/03/31/zaha-hadid-pioneering-architect-whose-vanguard-designs-embraced-the-digital-dies-at-65/

03/25/2016

Austrian-born Max Hollein has been named director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, its board of trustees announced Tuesday afternoon.
http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Frankfurt-museum-director-to-head-Fine-Arts-6969720.php

03/23/2016

Milton High School senior Mairead Dambruch has earned national recognition in this year’s Scholastic Art & Writing Awards program.
http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20160323/milton-high-senior-wins-national-awards-for-her-art

03/17/2016

The video artist Sondra Perry, who recently showed work at MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” and the Studio Museum in Harlem’s “A Constellation” exhibition, makes work centered on what she describes as “the abstraction of subjecthood” and the imagining of the black subject in contemporary media.
http://www.artnews.com/2016/03/15/abstraction-isnt-neutral-sondra-perry-on-the-ncaa-subjecthood-and-her-upcoming-projects/

03/10/2016

Yesterday, the legendary actor, artist, and art enthusiast Sylvester Stallone posted a selfie in front of a painting with the caption “Checking out the in Atlanta Georgia very inspiring much more to follow.” That half-formed thought actually turns out to mean that Stallone was at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and there was indeed more to follow.
http://www.artnews.com/2016/03/07/sylvester-stallone-took-an-art-selfie-in-front-of-a-borna-sammak-video/

03/03/2016

Colored pencil is translucent, so as you layer and blend colors, those in the lower layers show through, allowing you to create luminous effects and subtle shifts of value and hue. This takes time, but working on a heated Icarus Art drawing board cuts the time drastically. In this step-by-step demonstration I identify Prismacolor Premier colored pencils with a “P” and Caran d’Ache Luminance 6901 colored pencils with an “L.”
http://www.artistsnetwork.com/articles/art-demos-techniques/colored-pencil-step-by-step-arlene-steinberg

Colored pencil paintings are easier to create on an Icarus Art heated drawing board. Arlene Steinberg shows how she layers and blends colors this way.

02/29/2016

Using a photo reference is a convenient and rewarding way to make drawings and paintings if it is done right. But there are a few pitfalls to avoid, so if you are interested in ways to go from photo to painting, these six tips on painting from photo references are for you along with our editor picks of the top resources for painting from photographs as well!
http://www.northlightshop.com/photo-to-painting-advice

02/27/2016

It’s no secret that learning how to draw people is an essential, timeless lesson in an artist’s development; figurative drawings continue to be among the most popular subjects in art schools and among professionals. But it takes more than just knowing how to create the contour lines that form a two-dimensional drawing of a person; one must have an understanding of anatomy, including muscle and bone structure, and of movement and balance to render the three-dimensional human body.
http://www.northlightshop.com/how-to-draw-people

02/23/2016

Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways. Creative thinking is a stable, defining characteristic in some personalities, but it may also change based on situation and context. Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show up when we most need them, and creative thinking requires complex cognition yet is completely distinct from the thinking process.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/04/creativity-habits_n_4859769.html