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The Art of Composition - Through the Viewer’s Lens
A camera or smartphone and your own creative expression is all you need!

Creative artist Lonack Signature teams up with the celebrated, local singer-songwriter Christopher Dale for a one night, family friendly, interactive event. Guests are invited to explore the Art of Composition through a close up, photographic examination of Lonack’s works as well as create and photograph their own temporary assemblage inspired by live performances of Dale’s original compositions.

Bring your camera and creativity to this family friendly event.

Friday Night Liberty - February 5, 2016
5pm - 8pm
Barracks 17, NTC Liberty Station
2765 Truxtun Rd San Diego, CA 92106
619-573-9300

Twitter @RandomActArting
ChristopherDaleMusic.com

Holiday Swag Creations

I've wanted to make a peace wreath for some time. 

I chose to make it with faux greens so that we can use it every year - although I should use it year round and keep decorating it with different themes... 'cause peace is a year-round gig!

I used the discarded tree cuttings from a local Christmas tree lot to make the base. 

Clipped natural branches from plants and trees.

Collected pinecones when I came across them throughout the year and reused them from previous creations.

Used florist wire to tie everything together.

Bows and ornaments can be removed after the season and reused again.

A little spritz of spray paint glitter sprinkles it with magic. 

These are fun to make and leave on your friend's and family's doors or fences as a festive surprise!

tHE pOET

 
"We are symbols, and inhabit symbols; workman, work, and tools, words and things, birth and death, all are emblems; but we sympathize with the symbols, and, being infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts. The poet, by an ulterior intellectual perception, gives them a power which makes their old use forgotten, and puts eyes, and a tongue, into every dumb and inanimate object. He perceives the independence of the thought on the symbol, the stability of the thought, the accidency and fugacity of the symbol."

- r. 

w.

                                                     emerson.



http://www.emersoncentral.com/poet.htm

Off To the SCBWI Conference in New York

I'm excited to be attending the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators winter conference in New York this year!  I have been working on a children's book series and investigating the industry for sometime now and eager to be enveloped in this environment - There are so many individuals that are tapped into the wonder~filled world of creativity in this business.  I am giddy to explore the event and it's possibilities.  (Plus I get to experience a snowy winter - a rare treat!)


Here is a blurb in reference to the Simon series:

I have loved volunteering - running the arts program for elementary school kids, and being in the classrooms heading up activities and study.  I have drawn a great deal of inspiration from these experiences and continue to be interested in creating opportunities for kids to be truly creative through the arts. I am acutely aware that the majority of our kids are no longer offered opportunities to explore the creative arts through the public school system, and am excited to be currently creating a solution through the vehicle of a children's book series. This character driven series weaves together creative writing, story telling, drawing, illustrating, and artistic media study. In addition, each book uniquely offers the reader the opportunity to continue the story line and illustrations using different art medium.

Fee Fee Loves All The Notes, But Her Favorite Is The High Spade

http://scbwiconference.blogspot.com/2015/02/see-you-in-la.html

Postcards From The Path, San Francisco

The Beat Museum

I was inspired - Poetry Bombing at 

The Beat Museum,

 San Francisco, CA, USA

A nod to George Rodrigue with a little twist and glitter

Love the detail on this grate-ffiti.  (you will have to zoom in)

Fun to have spied this style around the city.

(Same artist below)

The Bay - San Francisco's Symphony Hall's loading bay that is.

I currently have a cone fixation as I am currently working on a silly series with them.  

I like how taking the vibrancy out of the color by going grey scale forces the viewer to see the familiar objects as part of a composition.  The texture and pattern is yummy and I can hear the Sesame Street tune "one of these is not like the other..." playing in the back of my mind - even though all the objects are traffic related items.

I guess it would be nice of me to show the original photo, but I'm not going to. One's mind already has filled in the colors, 

lighting a smile of recognition.

Art Education - Teaching or Facilitating

Art isn't something that one can teach or one can learn. However, a person can study, investigate and explore the many art forms and expressions that are available in our world whether defined by a culture, industry or personal preferences.
Art, at least creative art, is a realm so vast, infinite and filled with unlimited potential that it cannot be approached, with any true authority, through academic institutions. In fact, I find it humorous that we even make the attempt. However, it is valuable as participants in a society to have a common language and reference base as a means of communicating and connecting with each other on a particular subject. It would be wonderful if this was the context in which art education was approached. A person could use the opportunity to study, examine and possibly even experience the various aspects of popular philosophies, techniques, disciplines and artistic movements, but this would always be kept in the context of the subject’s relativity. Too often these areas of focus are presented as absolutes, especially to our youth. Worse, they are used as a means of judging or deterring what is, ironically, in it's purest form, an expression of an individual's journey into the realms of creativity.

All i see is You

I have found

    without knowing
       I was even
 looking

   that I can
see
  so much better

         with my eyes closed

Welding Wonder - Spherical Orientation Scultures

More. More! MORE!

I can't seem to get enough dimensions to play with.
My unquenchable thirst for the challenge, innovation and complexity of constructing sculptures that offer not just a 360 degree orientation but a spherical one, has (for quite some time) had me wondering about welding...
and metal...
and yes,
their relationship to powder coating.  They just seem like a friendly, little love triangle - and as Stephanie Meyer knows, those are a lot of fun to work with as a creative medium.

Eric introduced me to MIG welding this weekend.

...and of course I have to play with photography a bit while capturing some of the spherical orientation possibilities of one of the pieces.  

I look forward to doing some photos later after the pieces are powder coated:

 playing with shadows, 

displaying them on mirrors, 

photographing them with other objects 

and grouping them together into a bigger structure (yum, more composition play!)

5th Grade Recycled Art Projects - Photography

These are some of the photos that the students took of their recycled art pieces. 

They used the school's iPads, my small digital camera and iPhone 5.

The focus was on perspective, composition, lighting and exposure, experimentation and intentional blur.

Ideally they would have been able to work on them through the school's computers - giving them the opportunity to manipulate the photos and experiment with the elements of photography... but alas, we ran out of time. Maybe next year.

These were the art pieces that were part of the Recycled Art A Go-Go show held during the Friday Night @ Liberty event on June 7th 2013.

(I will post a few photos from the show next.)