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I'm always being asked to recommend how to frame art. This is one of the best DIY videos that I've come across. 20x200: How To Frame Your Art from 20x200 on Vimeo .

Framing I'm always being asked to recommend how to frame art. This is one of the best DIY videos that I've come across. 20x200: How To Frame Your Art from 20x200 on Vimeo . tag:blogs.artspan.com,2012-02-14:31862 2012-02-14T04:14:12-05:00

  This Saturday, February 18th I will be offering limited edition canvas giclee's for sale on Joss and Main . Joss and Main is a premier members-only site that offers ...

News   This Saturday, February 18th I will be offering limited edition canvas giclee's for sale on Joss and Main . Joss and Main is a premier members-only site that offers private, limited-time sale events on the world's best brands for your home and life at up to 70% off retail prices. Access is restricted to members only so this is your invitation to join. Membership is free, just use this code: http://www.jossandmain.com/invite/bradley0212 Hope you can make it, look for the Kings Wood Art listing and see my work!                                                                        tag:blogs.artspan.com,2011-10-08:25781 2011-10-08T09:15:49-04:00

I love the work of Terry Albright . She grows, dries, and cuts gourds, then finishes the strips with leather dyes for a beautiful patina and makes sculptures out of them. These ...

Artists I Like I love the work of Terry Albright . She grows, dries, and cuts gourds, then finishes the strips with leather dyes for a beautiful patina and makes sculptures out of them. These abstract pieces are often winsome and clever. The work has interlocking pieces that create a push-me, pull-you tension.       To see more of Terry Albrights work at the Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston go to:   http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/terry-albright   tag:blogs.artspan.com,2011-07-15:19021 2011-07-15T19:36:56-04:00

  San Diego, CA – March 15, 2011 – Inspired by the open framework of the Agitprop project, Extraction: SDAWI (the reality show/art project) aims to promote integration, ...

San Diego Art World   San Diego, CA – March 15, 2011 – Inspired by the open framework of the Agitprop project, Extraction: SDAWI (the reality show/art project) aims to promote integration, open dialogue, and cross pollination between some of the many diverse groups of artists and art organizations in the San Diego/Tijuana area. Each episode of this web-based, reality TV-style show will follow an established San Diego art world professional as they are extracted from their comfort zone, taken-out of their particular arts-network, and dropped into a new art scene and new geographical location. In Episode One , Executive Director of the San Diego Fine Art Society, April Game, will be taken to the Voz Alta Project gallery space in Barrio Logan to see the work of artists from Studio 767, a tattoo studio in the Chula Vista neighborhood.   Watch the video : http://agitpropspace.org/2011/03/extraction-san-diego-art-world-insiders-a-new-web-based-reality-show/   tag:blogs.artspan.com,2011-07-09:18251 2011-07-09T19:29:00-04:00

  "A great American painter who deeply loved old Europe has just left us," French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said in a statement. "His work was deeply marked by his ...

Artists I Like   "A great American painter who deeply loved old Europe has just left us," French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said in a statement. "His work was deeply marked by his passion for Greek and Roman antiquity, and its mythology, which for him was a source of bottomless inspiration." Twombly is known for his abstract paintings combining painting and drawing techniques, repetitive lines and the use of graffiti, letters and words. He is often linked to the legendary American artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. In 2010, he pain ted a ceiling of the Louvre museum in Paris, the first artist given the honor since Georges Braque in the 1950s. For that work he chose something simple: a deep blue background punctuated with floating disks and emblazoned with the names of sculptors from ancient Greece, apt for a gallery of bronzes. "I got into something new in old age," he said of his choice of color, which was unusual. The Lexington, Virginia-born artist said he was inspired by the colors he found in a Chinese print as well the blue of early Italian Renaissance artist Giotto, who used paint made from lapis lazuli. "I was just thinking of the blue with the disks on it, it's totally abstract ... I put all the great Greek sculptors' names on the top. It's that simple," Twombly told The Associated Press at the time. Simple or not, his work fetched millions at auction: In 2002, an untitled Twombly painting set an auction record for the artist at Sotheby's, fetching ?5.6 million. Be fore that, a 1990 Christie's auction set a record for Twombly, with his 1971 untitled blackboard painting fetching $5.5 million. "In painting, drawings and sculpture, Cy Twombly constantly held himself apart from the great conflicts that would upset the artistic scene of the 20th century," Mitterrand said. Mezil, the Avignon gallery director, said his show there was "the most beautiful exhibit before his death." Twombly, who had a gallery in his name at the Menil Collection museum in Houston, Texas, won a series of awards, including a knight in the Legion of Honor bestowed at the inauguration of the Louvre ceiling. He won Japan's highest and most prestigious art award in 1998, the Praemium Imperiale prize which honors those not covered by the Nobels. In 2001 he snapped up the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale. In 2007, a woman was arrested in France for kissing an all-white canvas he painted, worth about $2 million. Restorers had trouble getting the lipstick off. © 2011 The Associated Press tag:blogs.artspan.com,2011-06-04:15181 2011-06-04T15:55:22-04:00

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How To Care For Your Artwork                                               Now that you purchased that perfect piece of artwork, you'll want to place it to the best advantage both visually and safely. Deciding where to hang artwork is a two-person job one to hold the artwork and another to ponder it. Here are some tips from art hanging experts. 1. The center of the picture should be at eye level, approximately 60" from the floor. 2. Leave at least a 3" to 6" gap between the top of a sofa and the bottom of the picture frame, and 4" to 8" from a tabletop. 3. A grouping of pictures should be treated as a single composition. Hint: make paper templates of each piece and tape the templates to the wall using painter's tape. Rearrange until you get it right for your eye. 4. Center the picture or grouping across the wall or over a piece of furniture. Measuring and Making Your Mark 1. While holding the picture in place where you want it on the wall, put a strip of painter's tape on the wall, making the bottom edge of the tape even with the top of the frame. Mark each end of the frame on the tape. Then remove the picture from the wall. 2. If the picture will use only one wall hanger, you want to place that hanger at center-of-frame. Measure the width of the frame and divide by two. Then measure this distance in from the marks on the painter's tape. Now turn the picture over and measure from the top of the frame to the point the picture will hang. If the picture has hanging wire, hook the metal end of a tape measure under the center of the wire. Pull up until the wire is taut and measure up to the top of the frame. If the picture has D-rings or sawtooth hangers, hook the tape over the top of the frame and measure down to the ring or hanger. Then transfer that number onto a hanging location on the wall by measuring down from the bottom edge of the painter's tape, at the center point. Use a level to make sure your new mark is plumb with the mark on the painter's tape. Choosing Hardware 1. For most jobs, use a simple hanging kit (includes a J-hook and nail). The wire on the back of the picture will hang from it. Hanging kits are generally sold according to the weight of the artwork. To find that weight, weigh yourself on a bathroom scale while holding the picture and then subtract your weight from it. 2. Consider using adhesive picture hanging strips for normal-size pictures. They leave no holes in the wall and are easy to remove without damage to walls. 3. If the picture weighs 25 pounds or more and a stud is not present, use a wall anchor on drywall or plaster walls. Anchors that spread out behind the wall, such as toggle or molly bolts, provide the most holding power and help keep plaster from cracking. Read more: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/todays-chicago-woman-life-style-wellness/2011/03/expert-tips-for-hanging-artwork.html#ixzz1OL44XROD                                                 tag:blogs.artspan.com,2011-05-05:12251 2011-05-05T10:43:29-04:00

Hey...I was just nominated for the 2011 Palm Art Award. Take a look! http://www.palm-art-award.com/nominee2011-bradley.html , http://www.palm-art-award.com/competitors2011-1.html ...

News Hey...I was just nominated for the 2011 Palm Art Award. Take a look! http://www.palm-art-award.com/nominee2011-bradley.html , http://www.palm-art-award.com/competitors2011-1.html tag:blogs.artspan.com,2011-05-03:12131 2011-05-03T18:23:16-04:00

I recently attended an exhibition at the LUX Art Institute in San Diego, California and the artist in residence was Rick Stitch from Santa Barbara, California. Rick is a ...

Artists I Like I recently attended an exhibition at the LUX Art Institute in San Diego, California and the artist in residence was Rick Stitch from Santa Barbara, California. Rick is a surfer and recieves his inspiration from the reflections above and below the surface of the ocean. I met Rick while I was there and found him to be very down to earth and a genuinely nice guy. His paintings are truly beautiful studies in movement and liquid color. Reflections on the water to inspire us all. To see more of Ricks work go to the website: rickstitch.com tag:blogs.artspan.com,2011-03-13:7781 2011-03-13T12:19:26-04:00

  I’ve just been to the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park to see the Howard Hodgkin exhibit and I loved it. I was ...

Artists I Like   I’ve just been to the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park to see the Howard Hodgkin exhibit and I loved it. I was especially fascinated with the way he framed some of the paintings . He turned the frame so that the backside was showing and then incorporated the frame into the painting by actually making it part of the painting. Hodgkin is one of Great Britains most famous painters of the later 20th century. " Time And Place " explores his most recent work. In his documentary, when asked about the viewers of his work, he says "I hope that they will feel what I felt. I hope that the picture will get into them in some way. Sometimes the paintings make them smile in recognition, you can't hope for more."                                       If your in the area go and see it, but if you’re notgo to the website and watch the videos. http://www.sdmart.org/art/exhibit/hodgkin tag:blogs.artspan.com,2011-02-28:6221 2011-02-28T19:22:49-05:00

Nuel Friend is an artist from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He makes amazing paintings that I adore, and uses very unusual products which sets his work apart from most that I've seen. Nuel uses oil ...

Artists I Like Nuel Friend is an artist from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He makes amazing paintings that I adore, and uses very unusual products which sets his work apart from most that I've seen. Nuel uses oil paint, plastic wrap, roofing patch, polyurethane and sometimes glass in his amazing paintings on wood panels. They are very powerful and organic abstract paintings with a very limited color pallette which I like. To see more of his artwork go to the website: http://www.basqko.com/home   "number 11", 48 x 48 inches, oil paint, polyurethane and roofing patch on wood panel