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Call to Artists for Soos Creek Botanical Garden Art Walk

Call to Artists for Soos Creek Botanical Garden Art Walk ORGANIZATION: DEADLINE TO APPLY: Monday, June 1, 2015 MORE INFO: Soos Creek Botanical Garden in conjunction with the annual celebration of Experience Historical Kent, will hold an Art Walk on Saturday, August 15, 2015. Artists will be selected to display their work throughout the beautiful […]

Art Scan of the day – Stencil Artwork by Alexander Codd

Check out this artwork by Alexander Codd. Born and raised in Seattle, he paints using primarily spray paint and stencils, with influences from Banksey and Shepard Fairey. The majority of his work phentermine consists of portraits of those who inspire him in pursuing his dream as an artist. Alexander uses a laser cutter to aid […]

Sanctum – At the Henry Art Gallery

Sanctum At the Henry 15th Ave NE and NE 41st St, Seattle, WA 98195 206-543-2280 Monday – Sunday (February 23-29, 2015) In an era of status updates, tweets and check-ins, the geography of public, shared spaces needs to be reconsidered, along with our expectations of privacy in them. These spaces blend commerce and community, voyeurism […]

Photographing Artwork Using Polarization

Using Polarization in Photographing Artwork

The following video provides a brief introduction into using polarization to photograph your artwork. Polarization is used to reduce (and hopefully eliminate) glare (spectral highlighting) on paintings when photographing them. Oil paintings and acrylic paintings are particularly susceptible to glare. In fact, glare is probably the number one difficulty in photographing artwork that has any […]

Art Scan of the Day by Mike Tidwell

Artwork by Mike Tidwell

Today’s art of the day is by Mike Tidwell. Mike is a tattoo artist, and currently works at Hidden Hand Tattoo in the Fremont district in Seattle. Artwork by Mike Tidwell