tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23936814663323783202024-03-05T05:16:48.882-08:00Julia Kay's Portrait PartyCeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05324152950303305431noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-35321967202710856462014-07-07T07:48:00.001-07:002014-07-07T08:19:30.203-07:00Derivaciones del JKPP (2): Primeros Jueves / JKPP Offshoots (2): First Thursdays<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First Thursday at Caixaforum, by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/41195025@N05/" target="_blank">Sean Cronin</a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Una de las caracter<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">í</span>sticas de la <a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty" target="_blank">Fiesta del Retrato</a> organizada por <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/juliakay/" target="_blank">Julia Kay</a> es su capacidad de adicci<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">ó</span>n. Una vez comienzas a dibujar caras, no puedes parar. Y aunque en estos momentos el grupo de Flickr ofrece una copiosa base de fotograf<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">í</span>as aportadas por sus m<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">á</span>s de 850 miembros, no tarda en surgir la necesidad de dibujar retratos del natural.</span> <span style="color: blue;">/ <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One of the main features of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty" target="_blank">Julia Kay's Portrait Party</a> is its addictive nature. Once you start to draw faces, you can't stop. And besides its rich pool of ref photos provided by more than 850 members, you soon feel the need to draw portraits from life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">En el caso de Barcelona, la actividad se extendi<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">ó</span> muy pronto m<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">á</span>s all<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">á</span> de lo virtual. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En julio de 2011 se organiz</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ó</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> un primer </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/1726574@N21/" target="_blank">encuentro</a> al que acudieron miembros del JKPP de Barcelona, otras ciudades espa</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ñ</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">olas e incluso otros pa</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">í</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ses. Durante un d</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">í</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a nos dedicamos a dibujarnos unos a otros en la </span><a href="http://www.lacentral.com/web/librerias/LaCentral/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">librería La Central</span></a> de la calle Mallorca. Después,</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> los barceloneses del JKPP nos quedamos con ganas de m</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">á</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s y decidimos repetir la reuni</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ó</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">n una vez al mes, lo que dio lugar a las sesiones de los Primeros Jueves, que se han sucedido sin interrupci</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ó</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">n hasta el momento</span>. / <span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In Barcelona, the practice extended soon beyond the virtual sphere. In July 2011 we had a first </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/1726574@N21/" target="_blank">meetup</a> attended by JKPPers from Barcelona, other Spanish cities and even other countries. We spent one day portraying eachother in </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.lacentral.com/web/librerias/LaCentral/" target="_blank">LaCentral bookshop</a>. Following this, the organizers of the Barcelona meet decided to repeat the event in a smaller scale once a month, which led to the current First Thursday sessions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Al principio continuamos vi<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">é</span>ndonos en la librer<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">í</span>a La Central de la calle Mallorca, un lugar muy agradable pero que ten<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">í</span>a el inconveniente de que pod<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">í</span>a estar ocupado con presentaciones de libros. De ah<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">í</span> pasamos a la cafeter<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">í</span>a del <a href="http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/nuestroscentros/caixaforumbarcelona/caixaforumbarcelona_ca.html" target="_blank">CaixaF<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">ó</span>rum</a>, donde nos hemos reunido durante m<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">á</span>s de un a<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">ñ</span>o y donde hemos tenido el placer de recibir las visitas de <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/maureennathan/" target="_blank">Maureen Nathan</a> y de <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/41195025@N05/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sean Cronin</span></a>. Adem<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">á</span>s de permitirnos combinar la sesi<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">ó</span>n con una visita a las exposiciones, el hecho de estar en plena cafeter<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">í</span>a daba pie a miradas curiosas, peticiones de retrato de los camareros y multitud de an<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">é</span>cdotas. </span>/ <span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At first we used to meet in the same bookshop. It was a nice place but sometimes it hosted book launches, so we eventually moved to the cafeteria of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/nuestroscentros/caixaforumbarcelona/caixaforumbarcelona_ca.html" target="_blank">CaixaForum</a>, where ve've received foreign visitors as </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/maureennathan/" target="_blank">Maureen Nathan</a> or <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/41195025@N05/" target="_blank">Sean Cronin</a>. Besides allowing us to visit the center exhibitions, the use of the cafeteria was a source of inquisitive glances, portrait requests and many amusing anecdotes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">En junio de 2013, coincidiendo con una exposici<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">ó</span>n de <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/42114709@N05/" target="_blank">Joan Ramon Farr<span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">Primeros Juevesa el envailinga (si el primer jueves coincide con festivo) o de lugar de encuentro, el grupo JKPP pero que ne alg</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">é</span></a>, la sesi<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">ó</span>n se celebr<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">ó</span> en la <a href="http://w110.bcn.cat/portal/site/Biblioteques/menuitem.95987d47df85c50972e072e0a2ef8a0c/?vgnextoid=8a60b6beeabef310VgnVCM1000001947900aRCRD&vgnextchannel=8a60b6beeabef310VgnVCM1000001947900aRCRD" target="_blank">biblioteca Jaume Fuster</a>, en la plaza de Lesseps. En esta ocasi<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">ó</span>n contamos tambi<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">é</span>n con la visita de Maureen Nathan, siempre bienvenida. Desde entonces los encuentros del JKPP se han sucedido en esta misma biblioteca, salvo el de marzo de 2014, cuando nos visit<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">ó</span> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/juliakay/" target="_blank">Julia Kay</a> y nos trasladamos puntualmente al espacio <a href="http://lafontana.org/" target="_blank">La Fontana</a>. </span>/ <span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In June 2013, on the occasion of an art exhibition of </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/42114709@N05/" target="_blank">Joan Ramon Farr<span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">Primeros Juevesa el envailinga (si el primer jueves coincide con festivo) o de lugar de encuentro, el grupo JKPP pero que ne alg</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">é</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, the session moved to the </span><a href="http://w110.bcn.cat/portal/site/Biblioteques/menuitem.95987d47df85c50972e072e0a2ef8a0c/?vgnextoid=8a60b6beeabef310VgnVCM1000001947900aRCRD&vgnextchannel=8a60b6beeabef310VgnVCM1000001947900aRCRD" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Plaza Lesseps library</span></a>. This time we had again an always welcome visitor: Maureen Nathan. The First Thursday sessions have been celebrated in the library since then, excepting in March 2014, when we had Julia Kay with us and we moved to a different venue: <a href="http://lafontana.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Espai Jove La Fontana</span></a>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Special session of Retrats Primer Dijous with the presence of Julia Kay, by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/42114709@N05/" target="_blank">Joan Ramon Farré</a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Los encuentros de los primeros jueves, adem<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">á</span>s de ser <span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">ú</span>tiles para practicar el retrato del natural, son una buena ocasi<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">ó</span>n para conocer a otros aficionados al dibujo. Las sesiones han tenido gran <span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">é</span>xito y el grupo ha ido ampli<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">á</span>ndose. A menudo han acudido amigos de amigos, que no siempre conoc<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">í</span>an el JKPP pero que en algunos casos han terminado incorpor<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">á</span>ndose a <span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">é</span>l y comprobando personalmente su poder de enganche.</span> / <span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The First Thursday sessions, in addition of being useful to enjoy portraiture from life, are an opportunity to meet other sketchers. The event has been successful and the group has grown. The new participants didn't always know the JKPP group, but in many cases they have joined it and have had a first-hand experience of its addictive nature.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #38761d;">INFO: Las sesiones del Primer Dijous se celebran cada primer jueves de mes, entre las 18 h y las 21 h. Para posibles cambios de lugar de encuentro o de fecha (si cae en festivo), pod<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">é</span>is consultar la <a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/retratsprimerdijous/" target="_blank">p<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">á</span>gina del grupo en Flickr</a> o enviar vuestro email a <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/42114709@N05/" target="_blank">Joan Ramon Farr<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">é</span></a> para que os mande los recordatorios.</span> / <span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The portrait sessions are held every first Thursday. To keep track of possible changes of place or date, refer to the </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/retratsprimerdijous/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Flickr page</span></a> or give your email to<a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/42114709@N05/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span>Joan Ramon Farr</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">é</span></a> to be included in the mailing.</span></span></div>
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</style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;">1. El grupo de autorretratos / The self-portraits group</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">El <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/" target="_blank">grupo de Flickr</a> creado por <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliakay/" target="_blank">Julia Kay</a> en 2010 ha tenido un crecimiento espectacular (más de 750 miembros y casi 33.000 imágenes en el momento de redactar este post) y ha dado lugar a varias ramificaciones: desde la <a href="http://es-es.facebook.com/pages/Julia-Kays-Portrait-Party-JKPP/211320618898131" target="_blank">página</a> y el <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/juliakaysportraitparty/" target="_blank">grupo</a> de Facebook hasta los encuentros a pequeña o gran escala en diferentes países, los grupos de Flickr creados por miembros del JKPP o el blog donde se publica este post. Todo ello refleja el entusiasmo suscitado por la idea de Julia y la fuerza inspiradora que comporta la posibilidad de retratarse unos a otros. / <span style="color: #76a5af;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/" target="_blank">Flickr group</a> created by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7540599@N08" target="_blank">Julia Kay</a> in 2010 has had a dramatic growth (more than 750 members and almost 33.000 artworks at the time of writing this post) and has led to several offshoots: from the <a href="http://es-es.facebook.com/pages/Julia-Kays-Portrait-Party-JKPP/211320618898131" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/juliakaysportraitparty/" target="_blank">group</a> to the small and big meetups in different countries, the Flickr groups created by JKPP members or the blog where this text is posted. All of that reflects the excitement created by Julia's idea and the inspiring strength of mutual portraying</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">En uno de los <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/72157630048035200/" target="_blank">debates</a> del JKPP, Julia explicaba: "Puse en marcha el JKPP en 2010, cuando mi proyecto personal de autorretratarme diariamente durante tres años se acercaba a su fin. [...] Pensé que sería divertido dibujar a otras personas antes de pasar a temas completamente <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>distintos, y quería celebrar no haber abandonado ni un solo día el proyecto de los autorretratos. Las dos ideas se fundieron en la creación del Julia Kay's Portrait Party: una fiesta de celebración, y otros artistas como tema en lugar de yo misma". / <span style="color: #76a5af;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In a JKPP <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/72157630048035200/" target="_blank">discuss</a>, Julia said: "I started JKPP in 2010 when a personal project to draw myself every day for three years was winding to a close. [...] I thought it might be fun to draw a few people besides myself before moving on to other subjects entirely. And I wanted to celebrate not missing a day during my self-portrait project. These two notions came together when I started Julia Kay's Portrait Party - a party to celebrate, and other artists as subjects instead of myself</span>."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">En un interesante bucle, el <a href="http://studiojuliakay.com/portraitproject/" target="_blank">proyecto de autorretrato de Julia</a> dio lugar a un <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/" target="_blank">grupo de retratos mutuos</a>, que a su vez ha generado un <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/jkpp-slideshow/" target="_blank">grupo deautorretratos</a> en el que participan numerosos artistas. Esta es solo una de las derivaciones del JKPP, un grupo con tantas repercusiones que al cabo de solo tres años de vida se hace difícil describir su historia. / <span style="color: #76a5af;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In an interesting loop, the <a href="http://studiojuliakay.com/portraitproject/" target="_blank">auto-portrait project of Julia Kay</a> led to the creation of a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/" target="_blank">mutual portraying group</a>, which in turn led to a well-attended <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/jkpp-slideshow/" target="_blank">auto-portrait group</a>. This is one of the numerous spin-offs of JKPP, a group with so many implications than it's not easy to describe its three-year story</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">El grupo de autorretratos de Flickr se creó poco antes de la <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1726574@N21/" target="_blank">quedada de Barcelona</a> de julio de 2011 pensando en los casos en que podía ser complicado trasladar o exhibir físicamente las postales. Es un grupo de Flickr abierto a todos los miembros del JKPP, en el que se pueden colgar hasta 5 autorretratos no fotográficos (se ha limitado el número para evitar un desequilibrio entre los JKPPeros más y menos activos), creados de preferencia (aunque no exclusivamente) a partir de las fotos que cada cual tiene como referencia en el grupo de Julia. Hasta el momento forman parte de él más de la mitad de los miembros del JKPP (413 en el momento de escribir este post), que en total han colgado más de 500 autorretratos. / <span style="color: #76a5af;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The self-portraits group was created just before the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1726574@N21/" target="_blank">Barcelona meetup</a> of July 2011, for the cases where the transport or physical exhibition of postcards would not be possible. It's open to any JKPP member and it admits up to 5 non-photographic self-portraits (to avoid a bias among most and less active JKPPers), made mainly (but not exclusively) from the ref pics included in Julia's group. So far, more than a half of JKPP members belong to the group (413 people at the time of writing this post), and the pool includes more than 500 self-portraits</span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Como administradora del grupo de autorretratos, el día de su creación avisé a todas las personas que en ese momento formaban parte del grupo de Julia y desde entonces he enviado regularmente invitaciones a los nuevos miembros. He intentado informar a todo el mundo, pero es posible que alguna persona se me haya pasado por alto. Si estáis en este caso y os interesa participar, podéis solicitar la inscripción desde la propia <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/jkpp-slideshow/" target="_blank">página del grupo </a>o bien <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/arsaytoma-zoraida/" target="_blank">escribirme directamente</a>. / <span style="color: #76a5af;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As the group administrator, at the beginning I sent notice to all the people who belonged to Julia's group, and since then I've sent collective invitations to all the new JKPP members. I've tried to keep everyone informed, but I may have missed somebody! If you are in this case and you want to join the self-portraits group, you can ask for admission through the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/jkpp-slideshow/" target="_blank">group page</a> or <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/arsaytoma-zoraida/" target="_blank">send me a Flickrmail</a></span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Como en el grupo de Julia Kay, cada participante es libre de escoger la técnica y el estilo de los trabajos que cuelga. El resultado es un conjunto variadísimo de autorretratos que se puede exhibir en cualquier tipo de actividad relacionada con el JKPP. Así, solo con un ordenador conectado a Internet y un proyector, todos los miembros del grupo de Julia pueden estar presentes en una actividad que quizá tiene lugar a miles de kilómetros de su casa, como si mandaran un saludo virtual a los asistentes. Es una forma más de ampliar la productiva comunicación entre todos los miembros del JKPP. / <span style="color: #76a5af;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As in Julia Kay's group, each member can choose any technique or style for their artwork. The result is a rich pool of self-portraits than can be used for slideshows at any JKPP-related event. Thus, with a projector and a computer connected to the Internet, any JKPPer can be present at an event that may take place thousands of miles away, as saying a virtual hello to the participants. It's another way to extend the inspiring communication among all members of JKPP</span>.</span></span></div>
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<small>Created with <a href="http://www.admarket.se/" title="Admarket.se">Admarket's</a> <a href="http://flickrslidr.com/" title="flickrSLiDR">flickrSLiDR</a>.</small>Zoraidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02637778616585860698noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-46381329902700881482012-03-30T01:22:00.002-07:002012-03-30T01:34:33.323-07:00Portrait of Zoraida/Arsaytoma<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NOsHzi81A-o/T3Vtgm-AwTI/AAAAAAAAAWE/PJDdfDVtCyE/s1600/6358194661_504f1a808d_b.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NOsHzi81A-o/T3Vtgm-AwTI/AAAAAAAAAWE/PJDdfDVtCyE/s320/6358194661_504f1a808d_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725602908255338802" /></a>Zoraida was my first flickr friend and she joined the Portrait Party soon after me. She is a generous spirit with a lively sense of humour and a great drawing style in both traditional and digital media. thanks to several JKPP meet ups we have met in the real world and enjoyed each others company. Recently I went to Barcelona to draw with some JKPPers and other artists, staying with Zoraida and enjoyed her marvellous hospitality. I have done other portraits of her but this linocut portrait has been selected by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters for their annual exhibition in May this year! <a href="http://www.therp.co.uk/">http://www.therp.co.uk/</a> <span style="font-size: 100%; ">If you are in London at that time do go and see it along with all the other portraits on display.</span><div><span style="font-size: 100%; ">I am in the final months of a 2 year portrait painting diploma and wouldn't have enjoyed it or improved my drawing practice so much without Julia's marvellous party which lets me look at faces as often and as long as I like whenever I want. Vital for a portrait artist! </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 100%; ">thank you Julia and Zoraida both for being part of my portrait adventure!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-53196005494671779072012-01-01T19:47:00.000-08:002012-01-16T01:25:34.852-08:00Interview with JKPP artist Erica Smith<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><i><b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericahastings/" target="_blank">Erica Smith</a>:</b> </i>I am a self-employed graphic designer. I live in a town on the south coast of England. I like people and if I am interested in something I will explore it. It’s nice to be called a ‘Renaissance Woman’... sometimes I feel more like a dilettante. I originally joined Flickr because I used to take photos as a ‘visual blog’, but since joining JKPP I use Flickr for my drawings. I also help organise events locally because I like to make things happen. I used to draw comics, but haven’t done that for a long time. The not-for-profit projects I work on bring me great pleasure. There is always a bit of tension between ‘money work’ and working on projects which I feel are just as valuable but are not-for-profit.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Z: You work as a freelance graphic designer. Can you tell us the difference between the artwork you do for your clients and the artwork you do for your pleasure?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>E:</b> I studied Typography and Graphic Communication, and my approach to design is ‘problem-solving’. My clients are usually small businesses or local organisations with a limited budget. I help them use their budgets as effectively as possible to communicate to their target audience. I like it, and it is creative, but also can be restrictive.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The artwork I do for pleasure is more challenging... there are no boundaries except my ability as an artist. But the work I do for pleasure definitely feeds back in to my commercial design work. Last year I used my illustrations in commercial projects, and that is thanks to the practice and confidence I have gained thanks to JKPP.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Z: You've been involved in the feminist zine movement of the 90´s. What was <i>GirlFrenzy</i> and why did you created it? Do you think the world has changed since the time the last issue of this zine was published?</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Z: You are also a very active member of JKPP group, with <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericahastings/sets/72157624679228325/" target="_blank"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">more than 100 portraits made</span></a>. What is portraiting for you?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>E:</b> I’ve been a member of JKPP for about 18 months. It was curiosity about Bill’s drawings that drew me into the group. Sometimes I wonder why on earth I am drawing portraits, because it is a very hard thing to do! I think it is because I love people, and I’m very curious about them (my boyfriend would say I am nosey). There is something remarkable about drawing a portrait, because you have to really pay attention to that person. It is a very ‘loving’ thing to do. When I’ve been to the JKPP meetups and met people that I’ve drawn, I nearly always know who they are when they walk in the room, and it is always lovely to meet them. It is an extraordinary group to be involved with. I don’t actually like having my photo taken, or even looking in the mirror that much, so it’s been very interesting to have that ‘exchange’ and be both artist and model.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Z: In a recent JKPP meetup, somebody said you were difficult to draw because there was a happy halo around you, a certain "lack of drama". Do you also think that happy people are more difficult to portrait?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>E:</b> I haven’t noticed that happy people are harder to draw, but my drawing style is quite simplistic. I have a very round face. I always think I look like a cartoon, so I think I should be easy to draw! The JKPP meetups are very special, and I can’t help but be happy at the ones I’ve attended. I don’t think I’m always so happy, but maybe the stresses of life so far have turned my hair grey rather than put lines into my face! I do think people get much more interesting to look at as they get older.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Z: You seem to be a very popular and active woman, involved in many cultural, social and political events. You've also attended all the JKPP meetups organised in Europe and are organising <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">the next one</span>, that will take place in the UK. How are the preparations going? Would you like to encourage our fellow JKPP members to make that meet in February?</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>E:</b> I think it’s important to engage with the community you live in, and I know lots of amazing people. The more you put in to life, the more you get out! When I attended the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/72157625536672676/" target="_blank"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">first JKPP meetup in December 2010 in London</span></a>, I didn’t know what to expect. It was a bit weird to sit and draw whilst people were drawing you. I felt quite self-conscious, but it was also a lovely event to be part of. I feel very privileged to have attended all the other events too, and that’s why I thought it would be good to host one near me. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">I don't expect it to be as busy as a JKPP in a major European capital, but I would LOVE JKPP members to attend, so please spread the word! I know some of the artists from the UK, like <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maureennathan/" target="_blank">Maureen Nathan</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/" target="_blank">Martin Beek</a> are coming, and it looks like a few artists are coming over from mainland Europe which is very exciting. It would be great to get some new members to attend too – it would be lovely to meet you – and to have some ‘new blood’ to draw! </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">If anyone wants to attend, please look at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/72157627990831200" target="_blank">the thread on the JKPP discussion</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/ericahastings/" target="_blank">contact me</a>. If we have 14 or fewer artists, we can use my studio building, but if there is more interest then I will book a larger space, so it is important I know how many artists to expect.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The plan is to have a drawing day in <b>St Leonards</b> on <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">Saturday 11 February</span></b>, but we will also go to the <a href="http://www.dlwp.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">De La Warr Pavilion</span></a> in nearby <b>Bexhill </b>on <b>Sunday 12 February</b>. This is a 1930s modernist building with <a href="http://www.dlwp.com/WhatsOn/ExhibitionDetail.aspx?EventId=1335" target="_blank"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">an exhibition of Andy Warhol’s work</span></a>. I thought it would be fun to visit and we can either draw in the galleries, or use a special room next door for a private drawing session.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div>Zoraidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02637778616585860698noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-37268239402758816662011-08-02T03:44:00.000-07:002011-08-04T01:28:03.498-07:00Interview with Brazilian artist Patrícia Brasil<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patricia_brasil/5401697574/" title="2011 | PATRICIA BRASIL | foto de Jorge Grisi por Patricia_Brasil, en Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5299/5401697574_5611572d65.jpg" alt="2011 | PATRICIA BRASIL | foto de Jorge Grisi" height="372" width="500" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Patrícia Brasil at her studio -<span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US" >© Jorge Grisi</span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br />Colorful and sensitive painter Patrícia Brasil talks about her life in Rio de Janeiro, her artistic work, her sources of inspiration and her link to JKPP group.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; <br />font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Zoraida de Torres: ¿Podrías presentarte brevemente para quienes aún no te conocen?</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> Could you please introduce briefly yourself?</span> </span><p></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-family: verdana;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Patrícia Brasil:</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sou brasileira, nascida em 1965 na cidade Rio de Janeiro. Sempre fui incentivada por minha família a olhar. Lembro que meu pai me levava para ver o Desfile de Escolas de Samba desde que tinha oito anos. Ficava acordada a noite toda vendo aquele espetáculo de cores. Percebi, desde cedo, que a arte liberta.</span></span><span style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:85%;" > - Soy brasileña, nacida en 1965 en Río de Janeiro. Mi familia siempre me alentó a mirar. Recuerdo que mi padre me llevaba a ver el Desfile de Escuelas de Samba desde que tenía ocho años. Estaba toda la noche despierta, viendo aquel espectáculo de colores. Desde muy pronto me di cuenta de que el arte libera.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> - I am Brazilian, born in 1965 in Rio de Janeiro city. I was always encouraged by my family to look. I remember my father taking me to see the Samba Schools Parade since I was eight years old. I stayed up all night watching that show of colors. I realized early that art liberates us.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Z: </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">¿Cuál es tu formación artística?</span><span style=" font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> Which is your artistic training? </span></span><p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P:</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Nos anos 80 estudei Belas Artes / Gravura na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e arquitetura em uma faculdade particular. Meu primeiro emprego foi como Pintora de Arte em uma emissora de televisão, reproduzindo quadros e painéis cenográficos. Nos anos 90 migrei para Artes Gráficas onde até hoje atuo como diretora de arte. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">- En los años 80 estudié Bellas Artes / Grabado en la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro y Arquitectura en una universidad privada. Mi primer empleo fue de pintora en una cadena de televisión, reproduciendo cuadros y paneles escénicos. En los años 90 me pasé a las artes gráficas, donde he trabajado hasta hoy como directora de arte.</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span>- In the eighties I studied Fine Arts / Printmaking at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and architecture at a private college. My first job was as a painter at a television station, reproducing paintings and scenic panels. In the nineties I migrate to Graphic Arts, where I've been working until now as an art director.</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> </p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Z: ¿Qué estilos y qué artistas te gustan o te inspiran?</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Which are the artists and styles that you like or that inspire you?</span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P: </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >Há pouco ouvia a cantora/compositora, <a href="http://www.adrianacalcanhotto.com/">Adriana Calcanhoto</a>, na uma música, "<a href="http://letras.terra.com.br/adriana-calcanhotto/43856/">Esquadros</a>", que diz: "Eu ando pelo mundo / Prestando atenção em cores / Que eu não sei o nome / Cores de Almodóvar / Cores de Frida Kahlo / Cores! / Passeio pelo escuro / Eu presto muita atenção / No que meu irmão ouve..."</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" > Presto muito atenção em tudo. Faço questão de ser conectada para ter uma janela para o mundo. Mas olho principalmente para meu entorno, minha gente, minha cultura. Tenho <a href="http://www.heitordosprazeres.com.br/hp/biografia/index.asp"> Heitor dos Prazeres</a> e <a href="http://www.tarsiladoamaral.com.br/">Tarsila do Amaral</a> como ícones</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span> - Hace poco escuchaba a la cantante/compositora Adriana Calcanhoto, que en su canción "Esquadros" dice: "Me paseo por el mundo / Fijándome en colores / de los que ignoro el nombre /</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:85%;" >Colores de Almodóvar / Colores de Frida Kahlo / ¡Colores! / Viajo por lo oscuro / y presto mucha atención / a lo que oye mi hermano...</span><span style="font-size:85%;">" <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Presto mucha atención a todo. Intento estar conectada para tener una ventana al mundo. Pero miro principalmente a mi entorno, mi gente, mi cultura. Tengo como iconos a artistas como Heitor dos Prazeres y Tarsila do Amaral.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">- I was just listening the singer/songwriter Adriana Calcanhoto, who says in her song "Esquadros": "I walk through the world / Watching Colors / whose name I don't know / Almodóvar's colors / Frida Kahlo's colors / Colors! / I travel on the dark / I pay close attention / to what my brother listens...</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">" I pay close attention at all. I must be connected to have a window to the world. But I look mainly for my surroundings, my people, my culture. I have artists as icons Heitor dos Prazeres and Tarsila do Amaral.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Z: </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">¿Cómo defines tu obra? ¿Qué técnicas utilizas? ¿Cuáles son tus temas?</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US">How would </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US">you </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US">define your work? Which are your techniques? And your <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">subjects?</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P: </span>Acredito que meu diferencial é o uso a cor descolada da realidade formal. Minha paleta sempre tenta revelar que não é a cor de pele que determina minha realidade multiétnica. Minha temática é do dia-a-dia e me aproprio da linguagem e da cultura popular. Uso tinta acrílica e o suporte, que me sinto bem, é a madeira.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> - <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Creo que mi rasgo distintivo es el uso del color al margen de la realidad formal. Mi paleta siempre intenta demostrar que no es el color de la piel lo que determina mi realidad multiétnica. Mi temática es el día a día y me apropio del lenguaje y la cultura popular. Uso acrílicos y el soporte con el que me siento cómoda es la madera.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> - I think my differential is the use of color detached from formal reality. My palette always tries to prove that it is not skin color what determines my multiethnic reality. My subject is the daily life and I grab the popular language and culture. I use acrylic painting and the support with which I feel comfortable is wood.</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patricia_brasil/4508576508/" title="Portuguesa da CADEG | The portuguese of CADEG por Patricia_Brasil, en Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2246/4508576508_b87a1d0b5d_m.jpg" alt="Portuguesa da CADEG | The portuguese of CADEG" height="240" width="191" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> Portuguesa da CADEG</span><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Z: Tienes un estilo muy reconocible y también muy coherente. ¿Ha sido así desde un principio? ¿Qué evolución has seguido en tu pintura? </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">You have a very recognizable and consistent style. Has it been like this from the beginning? Which has been the evolution of your painting?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P: </span>Percebo que minha vida acadêmica e profissional me deixou um legado estético enorme. Meu olhar amadureceu me pedindo apenas o essencial. Tudo o que produzo é o resultado de uma vivência pessoal e inevitável.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> - <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Me doy cuenta de que mi vida académica y profesional me ha dejado un legado estético enorme. Mi mirada ha madurado, reclamándome sólo lo esencial. Todo lo que produzco es el resultado de una vivencia personal e inevitable.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span>- I realize that my academic and professional life left me a great aesthetic legacy. My way to look has matured, asking me only the essentials. Everything I produce is the result of a personal and unavoidable experience.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Z: En tu obra tiene una presencia destacada el retrato. ¿Por qué esa preferencia? ¿A qué personas te gusta retratar? ¿Pintas a gente anónima, personas de tu entorno, personalidades célebres? ¿Qué buscas cuando haces el retrato de una persona concreta? </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US">Portrait is very present in your work. Why this choice? Which people do you like to portrait? Do you paint anonymous citizens, people from you circle, celebrities? What do you search when doing the portrait of somebody?</span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P: </span>Os rostos contam muitas histórias e é muito bom poder pintar pessoas de verdade, acho assim me vejo melhor.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> - <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Los rostros cuentan muchas historias y es muy bueno poder pintar personas reales, creo que así me veo mejor.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> - Faces tell many stories and it is very good to paint real people, I think that I can see me better this way.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Z: Entre tus muchos retratos tienes una pequeña serie de <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patricia_brasil/sets/72157626176953980/">mujeres brasileñas conocidas</a>: actrices, escritoras, feministas. ¿Por qué elegiste a estas mujeres en particular?</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US">Among your portraits you have a series of famous Brazilian women - actresses, writers, feminists. Why did you choose these women?</span></span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P: </span>Trabalhei alguns anos como capista de livros. Fiz algumas capas para <a href="http://www.record.com.br/grupoeditorial_editora.asp?id_editora=8">Editora Rosa dos Tempos</a> e conheci <a href="http://www.rosemuraro.com.br/">Rose Marie Muraro</a>, editora e feminista brasileira de grande expressão. Foi então que conheci melhor nossa história e percebi a luta que é quebrar modelos de resignação feminina. Muitas mulheres me orgulham não só pelo gênero mas pelas pessoas que são. Na série "<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patricia_brasil/sets/72157626176953980/">Mulheres Brasileiras</a>", retratei algumas mulheres admiráveis.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">- Trabajé un tiempo diseñando cubiertas de libros. Hice algunas cubiertas para la editorial Rosa dos Tempos y conocí a Rose Marie Muraro, editora y feminista brasileña de gran elocuencia. Fue entonces cuando conocí mejor nuestra historia y entendí lo que costaba romper con los modelos de la resignación femenina. Muchas mujeres me enorgullecen no sólo por su sexo sino por las personas que son. En la serie "Mujeres brasileñas" he retratado a algunas mujeres admirables.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US"> - I worked some years as a book cover artist. I did some covers for "Editora Rosa dos Tempos" and met Rose Marie Muraro, Brazilian publisher and feminist of a great expression. It was then when I knew more about our history and realized the struggle required to break the patterns of female resignation. I am proud of many women not only because of their gender but for the people they are. In the series "Brazilian Women" I have portrayed some remarkable women.</span><br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Z: También hiciste un retrato de <a href="http://www.amywinehouse.com/">Amy Winehouse</a>. ¿Qué sentiste al enterarte de su muerte prematura? </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US">You've also done a portrait of Amy Winehouse. How did you feel when you knew about her sudden death?</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P:</span> Nunca havia prestado atenção na cantora Amy, antes de sua estadia no Brasil. Na época a mídia bombardeou noticiários com o assunto Amy Whinehouse. O rosto e a voz da cantora realmente me hipnotizavam. Lamentei saber sobre sua morte. Observo que o acesso às drogas, no meio artístico, é entendido como normal para o cidadão comum. Mas essa realidade, que é epidêmica, mata pessoas no mundo inteiro. Há sempre um decréscimo de talento à medida que o algum vício invade a vida.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:85%;" > - Nunca me había fijado en la cantante Amy hasta que estuvo en Brasil. Cuando vino, la cantante estaba en todos los noticiarios y su cara y su voz me hipnotizaban. Lamenté mucho su muerte. Me doy cuenta de que el ciudadano común ve el acceso a las drogas como algo normal en el medio artístico. Pero esta realidad, que es epidémica, mata a personas del mundo entero. Siempre hay una disminución del talento a medida que una adicción invade la vida.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> - I had never paid attention to Amy before her visit to Brazil. At that time she was in all the media and her face and her voice really mesmerized me. I was very sorry to hear about her death. I notice that the average citizen sees the access to drugs as a normal thing in the artistic circles. But this reality, which is epidemic, kills people worldwide. There is always a decrease of talent when an addiction invades a life.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patricia_brasil/5352710777/" title="AMY WINEHOUSE por Patricia_Brasil, en Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5286/5352710777_ba2032c953_m.jpg" alt="AMY WINEHOUSE" height="230" width="240" /></a><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Z: Me interesa especialmente tu serie "<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patricia_brasil/sets/72157603870383489/">Etnografía singela carioca</a>". ¿Puedes describir brevemente en qué consiste? ¿De dónde surgió la idea? </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US">I'm particulary interested in your "Etnografia singela carioca" series. Can you describe what it is? Where did the idea come from?</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P: </span>Minha temática é do dia-a-dia e me aproprio da linguagem popular para falar das pessoas que vejo no meu Rio de Janeiro. Tenho uma coleção de pessoas na minha cabeça porque passo muito tempo observando gente. A série "Etnografía Singela Carioca" é meu registro da multiplicidade etnica em que vivo.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">- Mi temática es el día a día y me apropio del lenguaje popular para hablar de la gente que veo en mi Río de Janeiro. Tengo una colección de personas en mi cabeza porque paso mucho tiempo observando a la gente. La serie "Etnografía Sencilla Carioca" es mi registro de la diversidad étnica en la que vivo.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> - My subject is the daily life and I grab the popular language to talk about people I see in my Rio de Janeiro. I have a collection of people in my head because I spend a lot of time observing people. The series "Simple Ethnography of Rio de Janeiro" is my record of the ethnic diversity where I live.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Z: </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Me gusta mucho la aureola en la que envuelves a los personajes. ¿Qué representa? ¿Por qué empezaste a usarla? </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US">I love the halo that surrounds the sitters. What does it mean? Why did you begin to use it</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">?</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P: </span>Apesar de não ter nenhuma religião, os raios e os olhares vagos dos meus personagens são inspirados em imagens de santos católicos. Empresto esse simbolismo do homem santo para as pessoas que vejo indo para praia, trabalho, mulheres com seus filhos. Acredito mesmo que viver essas pequenas rotinas é que nos faz abençoados.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- A pesar de no tener ninguna religión, los rayos y la mirada perdida de mis personajes están inspirados en imágenes de santos católicos. Tomo prestado este simbolismo del santo para las personas que veo yendo a la playa, al trabajo, las mujeres con sus hijos. Creo que vivir estas pequeñas rutinas es lo que nos bendice. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- </span>Despite having no religion, the radiant halo and the lost gaze of my characters are inspired by images of Catholic saints. I borrow this symbolism of the holy man for the people I see going to the beach or to the work, the women with their children. I believe that living these little routines is what makes us blessed.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Z: </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">También me gusta mucho tu uso del color, muy potente y eficaz. ¿Cómo eliges la combinación de colores que usarás en una pieza concreta? ¿Es un proceso espontáneo o sigues unas pautas previas? ¿Por qué la piel de los personajes es azul, verde, violeta...</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">? </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I also love your use of colors, which is very powerful. How do you choose the color combination for a given work? Is it an spontaneous process or do you follow a pattern? Why the skin of people is blue, green, purple...?</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P: </span>Nunca planejo ou faço esboços na aplicação da cor. Uma aplicação puxa a outra. As vezes fico imaginando como seriamos se cada pessoa tivesse uma cor, será que haveria menos diferenças?</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:85%;" > - Nunca planeo o hago esbozos para el color. Una aplicación lleva a la otra. A veces me pregunto cómo seríamos si cada persona tuviese un color. ¿Habría menos diferencias?</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> - </span>I never plan or make sketches for the color. An application leads to another. Sometimes I wonder how we would be if each person had a color. Would there be fewer differences?</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Z: Creo que trabajas en el mundo publicitario. ¿Cómo combinas tu trabajo exterior con tu actividad artística? ¿Cuántas horas puedes dedicarte a pintar? ¿Esperas incrementar la dedicación en el futuro? </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US">You work in the publicity business. How do you combine your day job with your artistic activity? How many hours can you employ to paint? Would you like to have more time for that in the future?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P:</span> Trabalho como Diretora de Arte em uma House Organ o que me garante estabilidade financeira. A realidade econômica do Brasil hoje é bem mais favorável, vejo interesse crescente em arte como investimento mas, creio que todo artista plástico deva ter uma segunda profissão para não ficar a mercê do aplauso alheio. Dedico quase todo meu tempo disponível em arte, este é meu investimento em um futuro feliz.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" lang="EN-US"> - Trabajo como directora de arte en una House Organ, lo que me ofrece estabilidad financiera. La realidad económica en Brasil es mucho más favorable hoy. Veo un interés creciente en el arte como inversión, pero creo que todo artista plástico debe tener una segunda profesión para no depender del aplauso ajeno. Dedico casi todo mi tiempo disponible al arte, esta es mi inversión para un futuro feliz.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> - I work as an Art Director in a House Organ, which guarantees me financial stability. The economic reality of Brazil is much more favorable today. I see a growing interest in art as an investment but I believe that every artist should have a second career for not being at the mercy of others applause. I spend almost all my free time in art, this is my investment for a happy future.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Z:</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> Participas intensamente en la actividad cultural de tu ciudad. ¿Qué es Santa Teresa? ¿Qué tipo de actos organizas? </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US">You are very involved in your city's cultural activity. What is Santa Teresa? What kind of events do you organize?</span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P:</span> Santa Teresa é um bairro na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Santa Teresa tem tradição boêmia e sempre foi morada de artistas plásticos e músicos. Há uma democrática mistura sócio-econômica. As vezes tenho a sensação de que posso ver o mundo sem sair do portão porque é visitado por turístas o ano inteiro. Uma vez por ano acontece o evento “<a href="http://www.chavemestra.com.br/index3.htm">Santa Teresa de Portas Abertas</a>”, onde artistas do bairro abrem seu atelier para visitação pública. Neste ano de 2011 participei e adorei esse contato aberto e receptivo.<span style="mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD" lang="ES-TRAD"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">- Santa Teresa es un barrio de la ciudad de Río de Janeiro. Santa Teresa tiene una larga tradición bohemia y ha sido siempre el hogar de artistas y músicos. Hay una democrática mezcla socioeconómica. A veces tengo la sensación de que puedo ver el mundo sin salir de allí, ya que acuden turistas durante todo el año. Una vez al año se organiza la actividad "Santa Teresa Puertas Abiertas", en la que los artistas del barrio abren sus estudios al público. En este año 2011 participé y me encantó este contacto abierto y receptivo.</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span>- Santa Teresa is a neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Santa Teresa has a long bohemian tradition and has always been home of artists and musicians. There is a democratic socio-economic mix. Sometimes I feel that I can see the world without leaving the gate because it is visited by tourists all year round. Once a year is the event "Santa Teresa Open Doors", where neighborhood artists open their studios to the public. In this year, 2011, I attended the event and loved that open contact.<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patricia_brasil/4473841957/" title="Julia Kay for Julia Kay's Portrait Party por Patricia_Brasil, en Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2717/4473841957_012725fbe1_m.jpg" alt="Julia Kay for Julia Kay's Portrait Party" height="239" width="240" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> Portrait of Julia Kay for JKPP group</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Z: ¿Cómo conociste el grupo JKPP? ¿Qué ha supuesto para ti? ¿Qué te aporta Internet, en general? </span>How did you knew about JKPP group? What has been it for you? What gives Internet to you?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">JKPP é um grupo de trocas artísticas e foi idealizado pela também artista plástica <a href="http://studiojuliakay.com/">Julia Kay</a>. É uma espaço para quem tem como afinidade o retrato e como desafio o outro. Já fiz cerca de 15 retratos de participantes deste grupo e fui retratada por vários integrantes. É divertido e acolhedor: fazer parte desta confraria nos torna um artista do mundo. Passei a me interessar por diversas culturas que os rostos desses meus companheiros carregam. JKPP também foi muito importante para que me descobrisse uma retratista. Até então não encarava as pessoas enquanto pintava, apenas retratava a lembrança das pessoas que passavam por mim. -</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">JKPP es un grupo de intercambio artístico, creado por la también artista Julia Kay. Es un espacio para quienes tienen afinidad por el retrato y con el desafío que supone el otro. He hecho cerca de 15 retratos de los participantes y he sido retratada por varios miembros. Es divertido y acogedor: formar parte de esta fraternidad nos convierte en artistas del mundo. He empezado a interesarme por las diferentes culturas que reflejan las caras de mis compañeros. JKPP también ha sido muy importante para descubrirme como retratista. Hasta entonces no encaraba a las personas mientras pintaba, solo retrataba el recuerdo de la gente que pasaba por mí. -</span> JKPP is a group of artistic exchange, created by artist Julia Kay. It is a space for those who have an affinity to the portrait and the other as a challenge. I've done about 15 portraits of participants in this group and have been portrayed by several members. It's fun and friendly: to belong to this brotherhood makes us world artists. I've became interested in different cultures that the faces of my fellow artists bear. JKPP has also been very important to discover myself as a portraitist. Until then, I didn't face people when I painted, I only depicted the memory of people who passed through me.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" lang="EN-US">Z: Y para terminar: ¿"Patricia Brasil" es un pseudónimo, o es tu nombre real? Me gusta mucho porque es eufónico, identificativo y difícil de olvidar. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US">And a last question: "Patrícia Brasil" is an artistic name, or is it your real name? I like it because it is euphonious, recognizable and difficult to forget.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Meu nome civil é Patrícia Lima. Em 2004 comecei a deixar minha produção em uma loja que se chama <a href="http://www.lavereda.com.br/">La Vereda</a>, aqui em Santa Teresa onde moro. O lugar é muito visitado por turistas por isso assinava apenas Patricia – Brasil. Com o tempo suprimí o traço que me separava do meu país e adotei como nome artístico Patricia Brasil. </span>- <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Mi nombre oficial es Patrícia Lima. En 2004 empecé a dejar mi producción en una tienda llamada La Vereda, aquí donde vivo, en Santa Teresa. Es un lugar muy visitado por turistas, por lo que sólo firmaba "Patrícia - Brasil". Con el tiempo suprimí el guión que me separaba de mi país y adopté como nombre artístico "Patrícia Brasil". - </span>My legal name is Patrícia Lima. In 2004 I started leaving my production at a store called La Vereda, here where I live, in Santa Teresa. The place is visited by many tourists so I just signed as "Patrícia - Brasil". Later I suppressed the dash that separated me from my country and adopted as a stage name "Patrícia Brasil".</span></span></p><p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="verdana"><span style="font-size:85%;">Some links:</span><span style=" Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><a href="mailto:emaildapatriciabrasil@gmail.com"><br /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="mailto:emaildapatriciabrasil@gmail.com">emaildapatriciabrasil@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patricia_brasil/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/patricia_brasil/</a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/patricia.brasil.art">http://www.facebook.com/patricia.brasil.art</a><br /><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Etnografia-Singela-Carioca-Rio-Natural-Ethnography/1253883">http://www.behance.net/gallery/Etnografia-Singela-Carioca-Rio-Natural-Ethnography/1253883</a><br /><a href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2048252">http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2048252</a><br /><a href="http://patriciabrasil.tumblr.com/">http://patriciabrasil.tumblr.com/</a><br /></span><br /></span></p>Zoraidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02637778616585860698noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-70179424853363264672011-07-20T13:02:00.000-07:002011-07-25T12:20:36.441-07:00The JKPP meetup in Barcelona<span style="font-family:verdana;">Some JKPP members and friends had a great time in </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Barcelona </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">on the first weekend of July. It was at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">third European meet </span>of Julia Kay's Portrait Party group, after </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/72157625536672676/">the one that took place in London</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> in November 2010 and </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1658745@N21/">the second one in Oxford</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, in March 2011.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This time the gathering was at </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.lacentral.com/">La Central</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, a bookshop located in the center of the city, with a beautiful café and a peaceful terrace.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42114709@N05/5893895360/" title=""lasagna" is cooling off. por Joan Ramon Farré Burzuri, en Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5062/5893895360_82a6c51691.jpg" alt=""lasagna" is cooling off." width="500" height="374" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">The group at the bookshop terrace, photo by Joan Ramon Farré Barzuri<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The portrait party was held on </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Saturday the 2nd July</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, but as some of the visitors were already in Barcelona, on Friday evening there was a dinner by the sea.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">On the big day, we were a nice bunch. From Barcelona: </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Magí Batet</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Arturo Espinosa</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Joan Ramon Farré Burzuri</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Arsaytoma </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">(Zoraida de Torres), </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Swasky </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">(Víctor Martínez Escámez), and some of Swasky's students at a local art school: </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Míriam</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Pedro</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Trini </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">(Tinitru), </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Isaac </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Daniel</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">. From other Spanish cities: </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Miguel RGL</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Félix Tamayo</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, and from other countries: </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Kai</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, who came from Germany, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Barbara Luel</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> from Belgium, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Erica Smith</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Susanne du Toit</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> from UK, and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Judy Repke</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> who arrived from the US after having attended a watercolor workshop in Costa Brava. At the party we had a few visitors who had learnt about it on </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://urbansketchers-spain.blogspot.com/">USk-Spain blog</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, and they did some portraits too. At least one of them has recently became a new member of JKPP (</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Javier Luengo</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">It was a happy and busy day. We spent all the morning making portraits from life, some of us discovering that it is much more difficult than from photos. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Swasky</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, who was there as a teacher, knew how to organize the posing sessions in a way that everyone could be portraited and attempt fast and less fast portraits. It was really interesting to see that some people preferred to draw from 5 minute poses, others felt more confortable with 10 minute poses, and others asked for more time to finish their work. Each one was using their preferred media: watercolors, pastels, pen and ink, graphite, digital painting... and the results make an amazingly diverse and lively collection. We were inside a classroom, a slideshow of <span style="font-weight: bold;">JKPP </span>portraits and photos was projected on a wall, and everybody was focused and silent, so there was a special atmosphere that surprised the people who came to see us.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arsaytoma-zoraida/5897982174/" title="JKKP Barcelona - the painted wall por Arsaytoma (busy!), en Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5276/5897982174_a3cd471714.jpg" alt="JKKP Barcelona - the painted wall" width="500" height="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">The painted wall, photo by Arsaytoma</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Also, one of the bookshop owners offered us to paint whatever we wanted on one of the classroom walls. As </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Judy </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">had big brushes and plenty of watercolor, a few began to paint and now there is a nice mural inside La Central, with the portraits of some of the attendees, plus </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Julia Kay</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> who was there in spirit and image (with the balloon hat), and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Franz Kafka</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> who was there in image (among the posters decorating the classroom) and maybe in spirit too.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Most of us didn't leave the bookshop on the entire day. We had lunch there, and on the afternoon we had coffee at the terrace and made more portraits of each other.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">It was planned to add an urban sketching session on Sunday. There was an </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://urbansketchers-spain.blogspot.com/">USk Spain</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> event in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Teruel </span>the same weekend, so not much people could come, but we managed to have a good morning anyway with </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Swasky</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Kai</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Erica</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Barbara</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Arsaytoma</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Joan Ramon</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, his brother and his nephew. We went to the port, and once more it was shown that just a few people watching the same thing can produce interestingly diverse works - and have the same fun!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Some of the foreign visitors left <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barcelona </span>on Sunday, others stayed a couple of days more... for all of them, and for the people from Barcelona too, the </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >JKPP </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">gathering was a nice short vacation and a good opportunity to practice portraiting from life and make lots of drawings, and of course, to meet each other and talk in a real way, not only through the Internet.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hope there can be more JKPP meets soon. Maybe in </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Brussels</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, as </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Barbara </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">suggested?</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">There is a Flickr group about the Barcelona JKPP meetup. You can find </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1726574@N21/">here</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> photos, videos, the portraits and sketches made during the wekend, and also the artworks made by other JKPP members who did not attend the meetup.</span>Zoraidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02637778616585860698noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-14482454813499407692011-07-20T11:47:00.000-07:002011-07-20T12:09:37.382-07:00Interview with artist Tim Clary<span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1pGsO5sg4I/TickQEPWk1I/AAAAAAAAAAw/_5UhaIEZXIE/s1600/4753142806_06c4f5029b_o.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1pGsO5sg4I/TickQEPWk1I/AAAAAAAAAAw/_5UhaIEZXIE/s320/4753142806_06c4f5029b_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631509717484737362" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Tim Clary, who enriches Julia Kay's Portrait Party with his impressive ink drawings, is going to teach his first portrait class this summer...<br /></span></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br />Kai: Would you tell me a little about yourself, your education, your profession?<br /><br />Tim: I studied graphic design at the School of Art & Design at Alfred University. The first year there consisted of a fairly rigorous Foundation program that exposed me to many different mediums and approaches to art from traditional drawing, painting and sculpture to some pretty out there conceptual work. It was kind of an artistic bootcamp which I was more or less totally unprepared for! I did a few more drawing courses my sophmore year before focusing on graphic design.<br /><br />A few years ago I got the bug to get back to the traditional drawing that originally drove my interest in art and I've been at it ever since.<br /><br />Kai: I've read that you are a ski instructor and a race coach. What's the difference between these jobs?<br /><br />Tim: Instructing is teaching casual skiers usually in single lessons, whereas coaching is training a team of competitive athletes over the course of an entire season. I grew up ski racing in high school and college (Slalom and Giant Slalom) so once I started instructing I had always hoped I'd be able to coach a team. I got that opportunity at Hunter Mountain, working first with the 7-10 year old kids for two seasons before moving up to the J1-2 division (15-19 year olds).<br /><br />Kai: What are you doing in the summer season?<br /><br />Tim: I try to keep myself busy. I do freelance design and illustration work and I'll be teaching my very first art class later this summer.<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2sGcgW1GdXY/Tickf2OE-rI/AAAAAAAAABA/Aes79X_kN3g/s1600/5147310929_d41b8e5ced_o.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2sGcgW1GdXY/Tickf2OE-rI/AAAAAAAAABA/Aes79X_kN3g/s320/5147310929_d41b8e5ced_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631509988599200434" border="0" /></a><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Kai: What will you teach your students? Are there any “main skills” one should learn?<br /><br />Tim: I’m going to try and give my students a solid foundation of skills to be able to capture an accurate, realistic portrait, achieving a likeness and a sense of life and spirit. I’ll be covering things like proportion, understanding the planes of the head, measuring and sighting techniques, rendering tone and value, as well as color theory and basic painting techniques.<br /><br />Kai: What have you learned from your art teachers?<br /><br />Tim: I don’t think I had any idea of the breadth and scope of ‘Art’ until I went to college. I was exposed to so much that I never would have discovered on my own. In addition my best teachers always challenged me to push myself further and to work through difficulties.<br /><br />Kai: Are there any parallels in teaching drawing and skiing?<br /><br />Tim: I think so. For many people who see a beautiful painting or a great athlete it looks like magic, that they have some great ‘natural ability’. I think that’s a bit of a myth. Both drawing and athletics require disciplined study of fundamental skills and dedicated work at building on those skills. I think anyone can draw and anyone can ski...it’s a question of whether or not you are willing to put the work in.<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Kai: What is your main interest in drawing portraits?<br /><br />Tim: Portraits are fascinating! No two faces are alike and it's a real challenge to try to capture the essence of a person.<br /><br />Kai: On your flickr photostream you also show figure drawings, mandalas, giraffes, urban landscapes, abstract comics, collages. Where do you get your ideas from?<br /><br />Tim: Ideas can come from anywhere and everywhere. Things I read, things I see, music I hear, etc. The best advice I can give to any artist is to keep a sketchbook handy and keep an eye out for inspiration. I mostly draw from life or from photographs. Some of the more abstract work are experiments to get me out of my comfort zone and are usually reactions to seeing another artist's work.<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AIr8U1EFnN4/TickX4BN_dI/AAAAAAAAAA4/2cujUsHnxT4/s1600/5598839262_fa4aab3cbb_o.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AIr8U1EFnN4/TickX4BN_dI/AAAAAAAAAA4/2cujUsHnxT4/s320/5598839262_fa4aab3cbb_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631509851643182546" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Kai: What artists do you think have influenced you most in your way of drawing portraits?<br /><br />Tim: My initial entry into art was through comics and I still love many of the artists who work in that medium. Artists like Paul Pope and Charles Burns (his portraits for the Believer magazine, in particular) who work in ink are very influential. From the Portrait Party I particularly enjoy the work of N.C. Mallory, Wally Torta, Marty Harris and Nicole Little among many others.<br /><br />Kai: You got your motto from Ibn Arabi, an andalusian sufi mystic and philosopher, who lived 800 years ago. He said "If you engage in travel, you will arrive." What does this slogan mean to you?<br /><br />Tim: I think ‘engage’ is the key word in that line. We are all on a journey in this life. But I think only those who truly work to engage in that journey, to see and understand the world and to work towards their objectives will ever get there.<br /><br />Kai: How does drawing (e.g. portraits) help to see and understand the world?<br /><br />Tim: I think really studying another person's face will hopefully give you some insight into who they are. More specifically, doing portraits for Julia Kay’s group has brought me into contact (at least virtually) with a vast community of artists from all over the world. The feedback and encouragement I’ve received from you all has been invaluable.<br /><br />Kai: Did you already “arrive”?<br /><br />Tim: No, and I don’t know whether I will be able to say if I have or not until after I’m dead and gone! I like to think that on my best days I’m getting a little closer though.<br /><br />Kai: Is it just a coincidence that your motto originates from the middle ages, or does your interest in the middle ages go deeper?</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gwon-t-AHVA/TicknJB7gyI/AAAAAAAAABI/hOrLaGd6WXk/s1600/4667845746_ca04063b52_o.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gwon-t-AHVA/TicknJB7gyI/AAAAAAAAABI/hOrLaGd6WXk/s320/4667845746_ca04063b52_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631510113907606306" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br />Tim: That quote is the epigraph to the video artist, Bill Viola's retrospective book, Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994 and while my copy of that book is long since lost...the quote has hung with me. Most of my sketchbooks have it written on the inside cover...kind of an inspirational (aspirational?) motto, I suppose.<br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-style: normal">I've never looked into Arabi beyond that quote, although I do wonder about him sometimes... </span></span> </p> <span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><a href="http://www.nnyart.org/ClassesandInstruction.html"><br /></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.nnyart.org/ClassesandInstruction.html">Link to Tim's portrait class</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/timclary/sets/72157624769505052/">Link to Tim's ink portraits on flickr</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://sketchhatch.blogspot.com/">Link to Tim's blog Escape Hatch</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-51387725326662749202011-06-08T09:11:00.000-07:002011-06-09T00:19:44.717-07:00JKPP on display at Future Canvas show in San Francisco<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ8enELZld4fOsA2k5FuuQRzPO_0rWsd64YqA7l9JUutZko_DAWVPJDlC3JcOfVSyY197gbWNJnaNeXXW9dTiKdHDcEGI4qv1wQScAau9XgGoUB596xL8jYHK-V0SwHZy_M2czFxjtLcO1/s1600/IMGP6242.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ8enELZld4fOsA2k5FuuQRzPO_0rWsd64YqA7l9JUutZko_DAWVPJDlC3JcOfVSyY197gbWNJnaNeXXW9dTiKdHDcEGI4qv1wQScAau9XgGoUB596xL8jYHK-V0SwHZy_M2czFxjtLcO1/s320/IMGP6242.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615888102676903234"></a><br /><br />On June 6th, the Future Canvas show opened in downtown San Francisco. It will be up until June 23rd. The show is focused on iPad art and features iPad works by several Portrait Party artists. In addition, one iPad on an easel displays a continuous slide show of the entire Portrait Party. JKPP was included to show a community where digital and non-digital artists are working together and being influenced by each other - and not making too big a deal over what media any particular artist uses for any particular piece. <br /><br />Opening atmosphere:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzfRxe_4AGXpChfllZDBmStu0ZReiZnjlfNdvswcivwC2z1FPIgFqCyUNmkHBQzSyp5SGBS0cwojyGn27DcfQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br />Here is the description of the Party posted at the show:<br /><blockquote><br /><p>Julia Kay's Portrait Party (JKPP) is an international collaborative project in which more than 500 artists from more than 40 countries have so far made made more than 13,000 portraits of each other, with no end in sight. Along the way oil painters and iPad artists, professional exhibiting artists and beginners, bus drivers and lawyers, all rubbed elbows online, learned from and influenced each other, became friends, and started meeting up in person all over the world. And while the community thrived, so did the portraits. </p><br /><p>There were some funny conversations at the beginning, for instance when an iPhone artist asked a watercolorist what App they had used - and the watercolorist had no idea what they were talking about. But over time, we've gotten used to each other's terminology and have been very happy to learn from and be influenced by each other. Artists who had stopped making art when adult life got too busy, started up again on iDevices, then became interested enough in what the traditional artists were doing to dig their charcoals out of the closet. And lots of traditional artists watching the developing body of work of the mobile digital artists started borrowing friends' iDevices or downloading art Apps to their own, and mixing it up. Many artists at JKPP go back and forth between traditional and mobile digital media, others combine both techniques in single portraits, and of course some work exclusively in digital or exclusively in traditional media.</p><br /><p>Each portrait is of a specific person, and was made in a specific way. But the body of work as a whole - multiple interpretations of each posted photo in multiple media - each made individually but influenced by all the other interpretations - is far more than the sum of its parts. Dip into the pool on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/) or watch a section of the slideshow to see the party unfold.</p><br /></blockquote><br />The show is open to the public Tuesdays and Thursdays through June 23rd from 4:00PM-7:00PM. Hmmm... those are somewhat unsual hours. If you want to call before heading over, the number is (415) 843-1GAF.<br /><br />There are also two more events this week: <br /><br />Tuesday, June 7th<br />Theo Watson & Robert Hodgin Discuss their Work<br />- Open 6:30PM / Talk 7:00PM<br /><br />Wednesday, June 8th<br />An Evening with Douglas Rushkoff<br /> - Open 6:30PM / Talk 7:30PM<br /><br />Here's the website for more info: <a href="http://futurecanvas.net/" target="_blank">futurecanvas.net/</a><br /><br />The location is the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts which is in the 'historic' grotto of the 'historic' Warfield Building which contains the 'historic' Warfield Theatre at 998 Market Street, San Francisco, CA. It's between Powell and Civic Center BART stations - two blocks in the grungy direction from the Westfield Mall. I suggest walking from Powell for less grunge :)<br /><br />I thought they did a beautiful job laying out the show, all the more so since the walls were concrete - you know what that means for hanging shows! Some of the iPad work was printed and framed, some printed on stretched canvas. Interactive art and art apps were on iPads on metal easels, as is the Portrait Party display.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpfo1jgeXnU8d8G2jvJaoFqRIh9JZ1zQObB8kOaTfHkbIDhOaMxIKNctW9Q2m1EtquodMGznfZoXRSE0wp_WVywyan550O3985KcB0Q-l4YlEOKb4rLkQhJwb5BTBtsuZTFWOVkT7YBIvy/s1600/IMGP6213.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpfo1jgeXnU8d8G2jvJaoFqRIh9JZ1zQObB8kOaTfHkbIDhOaMxIKNctW9Q2m1EtquodMGznfZoXRSE0wp_WVywyan550O3985KcB0Q-l4YlEOKb4rLkQhJwb5BTBtsuZTFWOVkT7YBIvy/s320/IMGP6213.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615888771405799634"></a>The space is rather large. You can find the Portrait Party on the middle easel of three in a nook on the far side of the room from the entrance, next to my three portraits made with the Hansol Huh's Typedrawing App (in other words, drawn with letters). On the left easel, is an iPad allowing everyone to play with Typedrawing.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWJ9BXoIXu0VdttzfFQxTRwKMoNcB-RPpcg_E0eRNvUORPxrvOeXdstb3fKbmtJf1qA3xn9LYIgo5LdgJudRUerw4Uwv2qflxW3N1UepFZChOHJ1-SWN8Iv9A8joNULRwxl3bmMh1PYbE8/s1600/IMGP6236.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWJ9BXoIXu0VdttzfFQxTRwKMoNcB-RPpcg_E0eRNvUORPxrvOeXdstb3fKbmtJf1qA3xn9LYIgo5LdgJudRUerw4Uwv2qflxW3N1UepFZChOHJ1-SWN8Iv9A8joNULRwxl3bmMh1PYbE8/s320/IMGP6236.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615892205203917250"></a>Three more of my portraits are to the right as you come down the stairs into the space, next to non-portrait pieces by JKPP member Matthew Watkins, and there are more non-portrait pieces by JKPP artists Nini Teves Lapuz (nini_nini), Greg Durrett (gdurrett), Helene Goldberg (HGBerk), Benjamin Rabe & Susan Murtaugh (suzi54241) in the furthest nook.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-_B-aDx1PyPMK20PEh8wcLtTyWezvRjwscyhBsx82S_o97eXp8xQtbEO9QnkQCpPRrnGXTSNkLdQ6hbOSh8ZpC52zvXJVN4yL3_wE-c6ZT6j2ORYWLLNFLTfuY_PGN9KzAlNzh-11lq5D/s1600/IMGP6239.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-_B-aDx1PyPMK20PEh8wcLtTyWezvRjwscyhBsx82S_o97eXp8xQtbEO9QnkQCpPRrnGXTSNkLdQ6hbOSh8ZpC52zvXJVN4yL3_wE-c6ZT6j2ORYWLLNFLTfuY_PGN9KzAlNzh-11lq5D/s320/IMGP6239.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615890729619969506"></a>A very special thanks to Josh Michaels, the organizer who invited us, and who went out of his way to make it happen in the eleventh hour, when it looked like including the Portrait Party was going to fall through. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><table border="1"><br /><tr><br /><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrk0e2Swhepc3r_BiVXUCw3Vc02cXr3A4PCmiyKS6AuyvHRKp0LMqCslFkBTVIuJOzi4KQk5-M9bqnFUUlzpFz24uGsfrCcdDiy67P8gTMwRX-OzV-Rx-HFfWaP6e-Wi-SI9GeXmpnysnV/s1600/IMGP6221.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrk0e2Swhepc3r_BiVXUCw3Vc02cXr3A4PCmiyKS6AuyvHRKp0LMqCslFkBTVIuJOzi4KQk5-M9bqnFUUlzpFz24uGsfrCcdDiy67P8gTMwRX-OzV-Rx-HFfWaP6e-Wi-SI9GeXmpnysnV/s320/IMGP6221.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615897251446083650" /></a></td><br /><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ_5Mx1ZcMKKvakY39XuLvRsHT7bvo_Oqv3gFjpw2FFXSx8Ho2N6C984dlSI8EfHD2o77XNK77X8XkXP-pxS9MdpxZ7RAitDMNhPG7hJunapXgHyMIoCA5P6zFUbNw4Xvokc96gdC_CnRT/s1600/IMGP6225.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ_5Mx1ZcMKKvakY39XuLvRsHT7bvo_Oqv3gFjpw2FFXSx8Ho2N6C984dlSI8EfHD2o77XNK77X8XkXP-pxS9MdpxZ7RAitDMNhPG7hJunapXgHyMIoCA5P6zFUbNw4Xvokc96gdC_CnRT/s320/IMGP6225.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615897949708132066" /></a></td><br /><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MsPah8cULVKiiCf9VydTAcSEs6yRYuppHW7A3c15xrkMJtvw8cnbuoRK5lCCmYSYdoPcBdozpS7jsFstT-E3f2-pjB5Qtj2zioO-OR_5Kq6YDjZlEZVE4JS8GTPWUx-uA5MPkxg5r4dC/s1600/IMGP6222.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MsPah8cULVKiiCf9VydTAcSEs6yRYuppHW7A3c15xrkMJtvw8cnbuoRK5lCCmYSYdoPcBdozpS7jsFstT-E3f2-pjB5Qtj2zioO-OR_5Kq6YDjZlEZVE4JS8GTPWUx-uA5MPkxg5r4dC/s320/IMGP6222.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615899329799747442" /></a></td><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td>Work by JKPP artist Matthew Watkins</td><br /><td>Work by JKPP artists Susan Murtaugh and Nini Teves Lapuz</td><br /><td>Work by JKPP artists Helene Goldberg and Greg Durrett</td><br /></tr><br /></table>Julia Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18096488946751214205noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-50789192787923293632011-06-07T07:20:00.000-07:002011-06-07T12:22:58.440-07:00Conversation with Catalan architect Joan Ramon Farré Burzuri<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvyq356kKt-AaHesWwgLIzxgbKLFl7boqAJgoem6pGPBBSDADlTAn71bZB8KAQrH1xBNcPiKDaFb9h7vnYSTiom6fhHWQg4QyjxLpVDfQF1LEP4aUsjcYXUhSnddF0pWqSrRWb2X3Jjbc/s1600/can-Framis.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 520px; height: 159px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvyq356kKt-AaHesWwgLIzxgbKLFl7boqAJgoem6pGPBBSDADlTAn71bZB8KAQrH1xBNcPiKDaFb9h7vnYSTiom6fhHWQg4QyjxLpVDfQF1LEP4aUsjcYXUhSnddF0pWqSrRWb2X3Jjbc/s320/can-Framis.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615487776487432018" border="0" /></a>I had the pleasure to have a virtual conversation on architecture and art with Catalan architect Joan Ramon Farré Burzuri. I met Joan Ramon via Julia Kay's Portrait Party and he was very kind to answer me patiently. For the readers, I would like to say that my mother tongue being French, I do think in French and therefore my English has a different flavor and many mistakes...<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">B: Hola Joan Ramon, you are an architect and you are an artist. Your drawings of houses and buildings are, not surprisingly, very good and accurate, the architect background, but you do portraits, very precise and also very loose when applying colours, the artist side. Did you always draw, made art?</span><br /><br />JR: First was the love for drawing,... then came the dissatisfaction with the job done.<br />But the flame was already lit and never faded, and this was the beginning of my passion for art.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWMvnPBCt2aKnja-i5aNfRvc9Ed5G5dGuu8eYKJOZhV1kmaE2tudEm9X911c2HZtqZ-qwlz3xDXmt45G6Vd1INkOhdnXNMQ55h8w46z9egXjNvbzVBi-e0k2Il8ex4E-okqXyULkfyqj0/s1600/kimberly.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 241px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWMvnPBCt2aKnja-i5aNfRvc9Ed5G5dGuu8eYKJOZhV1kmaE2tudEm9X911c2HZtqZ-qwlz3xDXmt45G6Vd1INkOhdnXNMQ55h8w46z9egXjNvbzVBi-e0k2Il8ex4E-okqXyULkfyqj0/s320/kimberly.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615487963190793874" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9eYUxHwNGE_zan8M8BcYxA0KDSxF0Odr7n6tWBRPn28nZTCPAP9c-LmuneFqOrpm-qwODCjIXukXX7-Xm4kpyIiTayLGg2aE-kPIIbqEQKF8YJpfQE-pLQjUyBwdvH5jfZKYJrK2i3JA/s1600/Nika-from-Poland.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 189px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9eYUxHwNGE_zan8M8BcYxA0KDSxF0Odr7n6tWBRPn28nZTCPAP9c-LmuneFqOrpm-qwODCjIXukXX7-Xm4kpyIiTayLGg2aE-kPIIbqEQKF8YJpfQE-pLQjUyBwdvH5jfZKYJrK2i3JA/s320/Nika-from-Poland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615488118108463122" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="clear:both;"></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">B: Did you do a lot of portraits before joining JKPP, or first time?</span><br /><br />JR: I was always terrified of drawing portraits. I never draw any portrait before my accession to JK'sPP.<br /><br />I always considered it is the more difficult job in the world.<br /><br />In a year that I belong to this group, I learned a lot from my colleagues and I discovered a new way to expression.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">B: Is it common among architects to do art, portraits etc...?</span><br /><br />JR: Within the guild of architects you can find scientists, writers, musicians, painters, sellers, sportive, bon vivants, and all the possibilities between all concepts .<br />Some of them have a passion for drawing, but I've never met one architect drawing portraits.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">B: Does painting, drawing, make you see buildings, structures, differently?</span><br /><br />JR: To me is not very different if I'm drawing a building, a rural landscape or the face of a beautiful woman or a child. Really, the important thing for me is to express the emotion that makes in my inside the contemplation of the objective.<br />In this sense, the culmination of this idea will be the abstraction.<br />(still so far of my usual work...)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPmEJU7j69Na0nSOwPRqwDVY2EtO66s_nSjBxC4ZxwaEnH5rM5-Eccwr3Z6-dFli-wSvpV_RG-Yvcp5OH_NkiepiuzFif3Jy9LI5OIJDKY_XKjDHjnAvJcTK8znrDDTnz9WJ4b-XSCzkU/s1600/sena.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 513px; height: 361px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPmEJU7j69Na0nSOwPRqwDVY2EtO66s_nSjBxC4ZxwaEnH5rM5-Eccwr3Z6-dFli-wSvpV_RG-Yvcp5OH_NkiepiuzFif3Jy9LI5OIJDKY_XKjDHjnAvJcTK8znrDDTnz9WJ4b-XSCzkU/s320/sena.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615488630965185618" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">B:. When I look at modern architecture I see a lot of square boxes with symmetry, aligned windows, no colors, blend etc.... I am not thinking just of skyscrapers but also at all the smaller buildings that make a city.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">With modern technologies,being so much sophisticated than before, it seems that style is less exuberant, very severe, like always designed by engineers.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Wouldn't it be possible to have different shapes, to have curves, to break these straight lines, to have other angles than 90 degrees? Gaudi does come to my mind but also Gothic cathedrals, roman arches ...</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Are curves a big no no for architects?</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Are colors a big no no?</span><br /><br />JR: When I read the first part of the question, one word appears in my mind: “minimalism”...<br /><br />But in the global actual culture, the things aren’t so simples.<br /><br />Technology has always influenced both process, design and constructive.<br /><br />The incorporation of reinforced concrete "liberated" the tyranny of cubic shapes recommended by the prismatic form of the brick and allowed the construction of volumes with more freedom.<br />There are plenty of beautiful examples. For respect to a master of modern architecture, the first of them can be Notre Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Notre_Dame_du_Haut.html">http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Notre_Dame_du_Haut.html</a><br /><br />At the same time, the incorporation of computer as a tool for project, gave wings to the creation of new shapes and also to the way of representation of these projects.<br /><br />The first example that comes to mind is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Frank O. Gehry.<br /><br />But this is not the only one, going to let me recommend you a stroll through various examples of how imagination, art and architecture meet and we "give away" beautiful buildings.<br /><br />I suggest the links below, there are for teams of architects that I think can illustrate the idea of this happy meeting.<br /><br />Frank O. Ghery:<a href="http://www.gehrytechnologies.com/"> http://www.gehrytechnologies.com/</a><br />Enric Miralles/Benedetta Tagliabue: <a href="http://www.mirallestagliabue.com/">h</a><a href="http://www.mirallestagliabue.com/">ttp://www.mirallestagliabue.com/</a><br />Morphosis: <a href="http://www.morphosis.com/">http://www.morphosis.com/</a><br />Coop Himmelblau: <a href="http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/">h</a><a href="http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/">ttp://www.coop-himmelblau.at/</a><br />Zaha Hadid: <a href="http://www.zaha-hadid.com/home">http://www.zaha-hadid.com/home</a><br /><br />As you can see, the curves are more a problem for the builder than for the architect.<br /><br />Referring to your question about the colors, thinking as a creator of forms, I would reply that if a volume is beautiful in itself, it no need to apply color, light will highlights her beauty.<br /><br />I recognize that maybe it is more an argument from a sculptor than from an architect.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">B: After looking at the links you gave me,I agree with you,it is art, imagination and architecture. I see a lot of new shapes, curves and different angles.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Some are so amazing, considering the long way with constraints and compromises from drawing to building.</span><br /><br /><div style="float:left;><br><a href=" com="" qaugnzny7om="" te46xdmbewi="" aaaaaaaafks="" nnc1zlomhq4="" s1600=""><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCg65FdPo7i2XkCbQGVnkJUZQDfuhsKIPl2u6FN18V39HrDFrJHz4lxnJ1hlMzdvgk0qmR5qzVhrAhqXLR7VdtgvpiB7MntL3UyiVcFRdgmFiVT5gIyH9E8YQjYG-4Pohy-_ms7w9TJwI/s1600/Anne-Frank.jpg"><br /><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCg65FdPo7i2XkCbQGVnkJUZQDfuhsKIPl2u6FN18V39HrDFrJHz4lxnJ1hlMzdvgk0qmR5qzVhrAhqXLR7VdtgvpiB7MntL3UyiVcFRdgmFiVT5gIyH9E8YQjYG-4Pohy-_ms7w9TJwI/s200/Anne-Frank.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615489953046428418" border="0" /><br /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOx9EgYq_0RyhL3EUasC4wBhEHQNfRzqgd4xy4yI1YjA-FhJE8dEI4p8DDPdtXnYdZGxar07KVmknteS8aSeWegpeXbhSxbhM2Kim1Nds9TFj6kxoHGhtMmPO2vfGlFeQ8g1STQbrmTAo/s1600/perspectiva.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 121px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOx9EgYq_0RyhL3EUasC4wBhEHQNfRzqgd4xy4yI1YjA-FhJE8dEI4p8DDPdtXnYdZGxar07KVmknteS8aSeWegpeXbhSxbhM2Kim1Nds9TFj6kxoHGhtMmPO2vfGlFeQ8g1STQbrmTAo/s200/perspectiva.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615489855583018914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwn47mH6wP-t2dyyM1r0yL3dlRIv9vjpgAn4CRY2ToMJLI5gZwslK50zrunj3sae6_GWPl8ttsdU9RYkFg7qw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Back to colour, reading your comment, I have the impression that architects have and develop an eye for volumes, shapes, and space.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Colour, for me, should not be a a decoration, it is part of the object, building, and with a function, like in this example:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.claudecormier.com/project/benny-farm"><span style="font-style: italic;">http://www.claudecormier.com/project/benny-farm</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Green was a perfect choice for these balconies, it was chosen because here in winter we are in need of green.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Thank you very much Joan Ramon.</span><br /><br />Joan Ramon's photostream in Flickr <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42114709@N05">http://www.flickr.com/photos/42114709@N05</a><br />Benedicte's photostream in Flickr <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bendelachanal/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/bendelachanal/</a>Bénédictehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04775462917218955984noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-50189180234864270072011-05-23T03:54:00.000-07:002011-05-23T04:11:56.727-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xoFszsRW43Q/TdpAhT7qIEI/AAAAAAAAANg/IQuQ7zkq1tM/s1600/5749443385_bcd857c83a_b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xoFszsRW43Q/TdpAhT7qIEI/AAAAAAAAANg/IQuQ7zkq1tM/s320/5749443385_bcd857c83a_b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609867226873733186" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9KgIiYIoo1E/TdpAhIIB_GI/AAAAAAAAANY/trBq9go1s74/s1600/5743856345_f35be65d12_b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9KgIiYIoo1E/TdpAhIIB_GI/AAAAAAAAANY/trBq9go1s74/s320/5743856345_f35be65d12_b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609867223704403042" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3w3Q6JzZI-Y/TdpAg1LWQLI/AAAAAAAAANQ/-OY3JSBFA8s/s1600/5745208711_abeda720bf_b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 183px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3w3Q6JzZI-Y/TdpAg1LWQLI/AAAAAAAAANQ/-OY3JSBFA8s/s320/5745208711_abeda720bf_b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609867218618040498" /></a><br /><br /><br />This week marks Oxford City Artweeks, and for two JKPP members in particular a chance to show some recent JKPP portraits and raise the profile of our exciting internet community to a real show! Jane Sherwood is exhibiting a number of her recent portraits, they are hung in a novel way on a wire line "like washing." These will be on display at a large Victorian church building called St Matthews, Marlborough Road, Oxford and will be shown until 29th May, the exhibition is open every afternoon, tea and coffee provided. Martin Beek is also showing JKPP work with seven recent pastel drawings based on the highly successful JKPP meeting in March at nearby St Luke's church. Along with these he has strung about 83 photographs of recent portraits on a wire alongside. They have printed out and displayed the JKPP concept too. <br /><br />Martin is also showing (non JKPP work) at South Oxford Community Center, with a focus on some recent drawings, mainly of landscape and also the University Museum of Natural History. Artweeks is a chance to link art in with the local community, in a small way really what we aim for in our internet community of JKPP. Martin is a firm believer that art should not be hidden away, in one sense it is only half done if there is no audience for it, it is like an echo returning when one puts work up. Good or bad, comments are always valued and welcome, and Artweeks attracts an audience that possibly would not go to regular shows of modern art. <br /><br />Both Jane and Martin were able to talk a little about their work at the church where they are showing during Sunday morning, and this too was a worthwhile venture. Martin says "It was interesting as I sat down there I could see all the many now familiar faces of our group members from our portraits displayed on the walls, it felt very much as if although absent they were a part of a great community, which really is very moving, and in my experience as an artist a unique one."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-68768231632991289372011-05-11T00:02:00.000-07:002011-05-11T00:21:54.175-07:00Maureen's JKPP portrait of Mariah on show in London<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDQZ9HDMbzKXltQT6viH3FkjjAIMsU2H-M4tE-AKjRyq2tvbkVjtMPCDYqQELWxTfl7oR9E_KANRuyFn5W9uB4ZyqGgkLh_yXtRz1u8xdVZd8MKcAlf8NzLer3GRX53fm3xuTfruKlst42/s1600/Draw+More+poster+featuring+%2528left%2529+Maureen+Nathan%2527s+portrait+of+Mariah+%2528also+in+catalogue%2529.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 278px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDQZ9HDMbzKXltQT6viH3FkjjAIMsU2H-M4tE-AKjRyq2tvbkVjtMPCDYqQELWxTfl7oR9E_KANRuyFn5W9uB4ZyqGgkLh_yXtRz1u8xdVZd8MKcAlf8NzLer3GRX53fm3xuTfruKlst42/s400/Draw+More+poster+featuring+%2528left%2529+Maureen+Nathan%2527s+portrait+of+Mariah+%2528also+in+catalogue%2529.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605353994294734434" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmOJZ3-Mw1IUvITE0Tgro1caewobQ1eMBlBBZQNNwSiUJJJ6vYEiJxhNBnGgIxocHpNm2J3WWkD3IvdqqzfxacB_uy9jZYs0KJDFF5r4c3eedVPQL3NkrXsxfLisY4R6CuX7skoDooSti8/s1600/Maureen+Nathan+with+her+drawing+of+Mariah+%25282%2529.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmOJZ3-Mw1IUvITE0Tgro1caewobQ1eMBlBBZQNNwSiUJJJ6vYEiJxhNBnGgIxocHpNm2J3WWkD3IvdqqzfxacB_uy9jZYs0KJDFF5r4c3eedVPQL3NkrXsxfLisY4R6CuX7skoDooSti8/s400/Maureen+Nathan+with+her+drawing+of+Mariah+%25282%2529.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605350910490325138" /></a>Maureen Nathan's JKPP portrait of Mariah O'Neill is currently on show at the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation Drawing Exhibition in London until 11 June.<div><br /></div><div>Maureen's drawing was selected to feature in both the catalogue and posters of the exhibition which is at The Morley Gallery (closest tube Lambeth North). Entrance is free.<br /><div><br /></div><div>http://www.morleycollege.ac.uk/gallery/rootstein-hopkins-foundation-drawing-exhibition/</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Stella Toothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06223889684759393249noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-62369118282297410742011-04-30T18:07:00.000-07:002011-04-30T18:15:08.708-07:00A Good Plan Goes GoldJKPP member Kristijan Kozic (Kris Kozi) recently published an essay in his native Croatian on the benefits of a daily practice, learning to draw, and the role of JKPP in his undertaking. I enjoyed Kris' essay and commend his process, which he continues to this day. I'm also a big fan of daily practice - I think the best thing I ever did for myself as an artist was commit to drawing every day more than 4 years ago.<br /> <br />Kris' original essay can be found here:<br /><a href="http://mediapositiva.hr/Default.aspx?sid=11476" target=_blank_>Front page of the magazine</a><br /><a href="http://mediapositiva.hr/Default.aspx?sid=11494" target=_blank_>Kris' essay</a><br /><br />After it was published, we tracked a surge of 80+ visits to the JKPP pool from Croatia.<br /> <br />Kris and I worked together to translate his essay to English.<br />Julia<br />--------------------------------------<br />December's <a href="http://mediapositiva.hr">mediapositiva.hr</a> essay by Irena Čorko Meštrović was devoted to the process of writing novels, and in this issue you can read something about how to dedicate time to painting. This model can be used to develop any skill.<br /> <br />The idea of daily time for yourself, which would also include time for creativity, was put in my mind by another Irena (Krčelić this time). She recommended the book <a href="http://www.theartistsway.com/">‘The Artist’s Way’ by Julia Cameron</a>.<br /><br />One of the fundamental ideas of this book is to write a page every day in the morning. One writes a stream of consciousness, without any barriers or self-criticism, in order to free the roads of creative expression.<br /> <br />I failed. I am not a morning guy, so I switched to evenings. The time of day didn't seem important when the main thing was to write. But then my handwriting started to bother me because it is very messy.<br /> <br />I tried using the computer but I am not the only user of our home computer. Therefore I couldn’t just use it whenever I wanted, so it only created anxiety, which is the reverse of the essential point of this method.<br /> <br />Morning or evening pages, handwritten or typed pages, it did not matter, there were no pages.<br /> <br />In addition, I have an affinity for writing, or, in fact, the ambition to write, so there was always a certain dose of self-criticism. I did not pass this stage, and I stopped trying to write ‘morning pages’. <br /><br />But I continued to look for a model that would fit.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Coaching - a good plan goes gold</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kris_kozi/5457980017/" title="JKPP Vin Ganapathy/somannabopanna by Kris Kozi, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5457980017_8b2ab090d6.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="JKPP Vin Ganapathy/somannabopanna" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;"></a>At a coaching training I accidentally blurted out that I would like to know how to draw. The idea rolled and in early October 2010 I made a plan with the coach.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The plan was this</span>:<br /><br />Objective: By the end of March 2011. improve my ability to draw people and animals, using pens or pencils, from the current self-assessment of 3 (on a scale of 1 to 10) to 9.<br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Plan of action:</span><br /><br />1) Collect 15-20 photo / drawing templates from various magazines.<br /> 2) At least 5 times a week, practice drawing for a period of 15 to 20 minutes at the end of the day and without the presence of distractions such as music, TV, or other people.<br /> 3) Through the next month explore deeper and more detailed 'how-to' web pages that I have already visited, which can help me develop my drawing skills.<br /> 4) About once a month seek reviews on the progress of my drawing from my wife and a friend who is a painter<br /> 5) By the end of the year, try to reach the level of successfully drawing the composition and / or a recognizable subject.<br /> 6) Then continue with intensive practice.<br /> <br />The plan was there and I just had to go on the path to mastery.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Customizing the plan and the elimination of all “distractions”.</span> <br /><br />The original plan was altered in some detail. I gave up on pictures from magazines because I was not interested in the images that were available. The idea was to draw only what I like. Politicians, and other models that appear in magazines do not fall into that category, so I found a good website with photos that I could use.<br /><br />I used A4 size paper and printed the source picture on one half so that the other half remained empty for drawing.<br /> <br />One of the important things in the beginning was to make it very easy to do my practice. The things I needed for drawing - the marker and the template - were always in the same place, and I could start as soon as I wanted. I tried to completely eliminate the possibility of something distracting me.<br /> <br />I stayed with this plan and gradually got caught up in drawing. The daily 15-minute time was negligible, and the results were quickly visible.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Julia Kay's Portrait Party</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kris_kozi/5466014230/" title="JKPP Michael Scholl by Kris Kozi, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5053/5466014230_c1ba5c1c8f.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="JKPP Michael Scholl" style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;"></a>After three months, it crossed my mind that I could begin to draw portraits.<br /> <br />Searching the Internet instructions and guides, I accidentally ran into a group on Flickr under the name Julia Kay's Portrait Party.<br /> <br />As politicians, models, actors and such did not suit me as models (such faces are seen the most everywhere you look), a group of people who portrait each other was exactly what I wanted.<br /> <br />The Portrait Party has nearly 500 members and it is a great, fun support group where people portray each other. The energy is only positive. There are no negative comments and criticism - it is an unwritten rule. Membership of the group is colorful in all directions - national, racial, professional, and anything you can think of – you can portray a bus driver from New York, a missionary from South Korea, or perhaps a professional painter from Barcelona ...<br /> <br />The rules are simple: portray only those persons who are in the group, no self-portraits, and the group is not for photographic portraits.<br /> <br />If you are interested to participate, first read the simple rules. Before applying, put some of your drawings on your Flickr profile - the group is for those who draw or paint. Then go to this page, click on "Join" button, and follow the instructions. If you are not good with English, let them know that, they will find a way to help you. Feel free to contact me and if you get stuck.<br /> <br />To join a group requires approval by Julia Kay – in general, for acceptance and clarification of the rules and instructions on how to post photos of yourself, your portraits of others... the usual technicalities ... Julia is a very pleasant lady.<br /> <br />For those who already know and for those who might want to know, if you draw or paint, I recommend this excellent group. If you do have a desire to draw, just 15 minutes a day can change it. <br /> <br />PS: Perhaps it should be noted that last summer when I drew a dog, my daughter (then two years old) was the only one who thought it was a dog. In fact, she said: "How ugly doggy." Everyone else thought that this was a calf, a horse or an unidentified animal. Today it's a different story - anyone can learn to draw!<br /> <br />See you at the party!Julia Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18096488946751214205noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-22905809665755061782011-04-20T13:15:00.000-07:002011-05-02T15:31:00.798-07:00Interview with marker artist Nicole Little (littleoutrageous)I asked Nicole for this interview simply because i love her marker portraits, that consistently caught my eyes while browsing through the JKPP pool and made me curious about her.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQxoB_RRres/Ta8_EzhrpBI/AAAAAAAAAAU/5Twa6g9FMxA/s1600/5185649292_e6859a01e2_m.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597762213628322834" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQxoB_RRres/Ta8_EzhrpBI/AAAAAAAAAAU/5Twa6g9FMxA/s320/5185649292_e6859a01e2_m.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 190px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 240px;" /></a><span style="color: black;">Kai:</span> Would you tell a little about yourself?<br />
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Nicole: Okay! My favourite type of books are children's books. I like jumping and climbing on things and I believe that skipping is one of the most efficient ways to travel. Also, I am absolutely terrible with responsibility, unemployed, and almost always in love.<br />
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Kai: You say you live for two things. One of them is art. What's the other one you live for?<br />
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Nicole: That was left vague for a very p.g reason. The other thing I live for is orgasms.<br />
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Kai: You work in an unusual medium. What do you like about markers?<br />
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Nicole: I don't just like working with markers, I am a marker artist. I'm not just saying that to be snotty either, I really do think of myself that way. It took me years to get to the point where I can be comfortable calling myself an artist. I thought I had arrived when I figured out how to apply what I had learned over my decades long love affair with ink doodles, and make something roughly resembling a likeness. I look at your work, Kai, and I know that I still have a long path ahead of me with pen. But marker is unique. I use a ton of different types, mix them pretty freely with india ink, pencil, pencil crayon, and oils, and what I end up with, simply because the medium is so damn new, is a fresh thing. There are other artists out there working with markers - Pierre Willemin is doing what I'm doing with a lot less product - but right now we marker artists are forging our own path. I like being an innovator and markers gives me that. Also, the colours are pretty.<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Sf6OGGfdzFI/Ta8_FDRQahI/AAAAAAAAAAc/IwVHaXhpBQE/s1600/5295561455_979d1572d4_m.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597762217854396946" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Sf6OGGfdzFI/Ta8_FDRQahI/AAAAAAAAAAc/IwVHaXhpBQE/s320/5295561455_979d1572d4_m.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 192px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 240px;" /></a>Kai: You've done a lot of double and triple portraits, even five and sevenfold portraits by combining different people or different views of the same person in one picture. What's the idea behind your preference for multiple portraits?<br />
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Nicole: Ha ha. Ya. I guess I want to make sure I get in an image that actually shows off the subject. There are so many decisions that we all make in a portrait, and sometimes you can take someone in a flattering direction or to a really an insane place. One is not necessarily more accurate than the other. You know? It's about getting aspects and adding them up to recreate the person. Like Frankenstein without the corpses.<br />
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Kai: How do you choose the couples for your double portraits?<br />
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Nicole: I fall in love with them both in the same way.<br />
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Kai: You say „Marker + Moleskine = Happiness“. What makes the magic of this combination?<br />
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Nicole: Small moleskines take marker extremely well although the larger ($$$!!!) moleskines have a different texture, which doesn't. I just fell for markers and colour in a big way and decided to invest in moleskines so that I'd value each page and put real time and effort into it. So I guess the happiness is that feeling of personal accomplishment. I must have said that a while ago though... I'm not satisfied with my work right now.<br />
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Kai: Will you be satisfied with your work one day? Is it a question of time or quality or mental attitude? What do you miss about your work?<br />
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Nicole: One day I will be dead. That will be similar to being satisfied with my work in that I will not be dissatisfied with it. I find relatively successful works to be very temporary highs - like crack cocaine.<br />
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Kai: Who inspires you?<br />
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Nicole: The flickr community inspires me massively because it inspires me to work hard. There is so much talent out there and I want so badly to be as good as the best. The Collective, an amazing art group here in Toronto, inspires me for exactly the same reason. It's friendly competition and it makes us all better. Models inspire me when they're muses and even when they're not because in the end, finding something unique in someone who seemed plain means that I get to play and spotlight and become inventive.<br />
Mostly though, I'm inspired by challenges. As an artist, I think it's crucial that we put ourselves in tiny, tight boxes (heh heh) and then imagine and invent our way out.<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jvgoVrjGfn4/Ta8_Fc_0CbI/AAAAAAAAAAk/pkCPWWlk9pY/s1600/5343151553_245b8ac0c8_m.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597762224760555954" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jvgoVrjGfn4/Ta8_Fc_0CbI/AAAAAAAAAAk/pkCPWWlk9pY/s320/5343151553_245b8ac0c8_m.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 179px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 240px;" /></a>Kai: What's outrageous about you / your art?<br />
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Nicole: Just a little outrageous. I'm usually kind of indignant, so the name is a reference to a personality trait, in one sense. It's a reference to little death as well, and I think that shows in my better work.<br />
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Kai: What does flickr mean to you?<br />
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Nicole: Flickr means a community, a support system, and a method of spying on other artists as a means of motivation. It's also the best place I know to spend an hour or two and actually get to see real, original art.<br />
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Kai: What does JKPP mean to you?<br />
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Nicole: JKPP is so tied into flickr for me. I love the idea of it. I love seeing different takes on the same images and people, different styles at play. I love the sense of community and acceptance that I find with JKPP members I've had the privilege of being personally connected to, and I love that I get to see that same spirit in the wider community.<br />
JKPP is a massive talent pool that really revolves around Julia's innovation and dedication. I think it takes a true artist to set the parameters for an group like this, and the success of the group belongs first to its innovator and then to it's members.<br />
I get so much community, so much support, so much competition, and exposure to so many talented artists.<br />
This group has made me a better artist.<br />
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Kai: Thank you Nicole!<br />
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Nicole: Thanks for asking Kai!<br />
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View Nicole's art at her Flickr photostream here - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/littleoutrage/"><strong>littleoutrageous</strong></a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-14218034511885936462011-04-16T15:14:00.000-07:002012-09-24T01:40:27.026-07:00Interview with Stella Tooth (Stellartist)<div align="left">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtn7n9rmrBzhtDDP1W-eWHCrH3iFFtcLVjPXv4xAGUlXGxqCYT39HV6zx8zbLzoJ8iEiL05VYZLp8rXXiMPJpcAkYRUUqm_w6chI6sK0UBVvPbSPVe_H4AnUmxhKQVeYSL2rSXnjm8YAQ/s1600/Stella+Martin+Oxford+JKPP+meet+%25282%2529.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596309504155334610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtn7n9rmrBzhtDDP1W-eWHCrH3iFFtcLVjPXv4xAGUlXGxqCYT39HV6zx8zbLzoJ8iEiL05VYZLp8rXXiMPJpcAkYRUUqm_w6chI6sK0UBVvPbSPVe_H4AnUmxhKQVeYSL2rSXnjm8YAQ/s320/Stella+Martin+Oxford+JKPP+meet+%25282%2529.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 240px;" /></a><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Having worked as a print journalist and TV news pr, Stella Tooth has recently undertaken a major change of career and she is attending a two year Portraiture Diploma at the same school where the pre-Raphaelites studied. In this interview, Stella, who describes herself as "a tonal painter who is falling in love with colour", talks about her painting technique and her sources of inspiration and she explains her interest in conveying feeling and reflecting the way our faces and bodies record the lives we lead. Stella has found friendship and support of like-minded artists in Flickr groups as <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1598856@N20/" target="_blank">Lots of Landscapes</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/" target="_blank">Julia Kay's Portrait Party</a>. As she says, "Julia's movement has helped atomised artists around the world to realise we are part of a shared endeavour".</span></b> </div>
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<b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">(In the photo, Stella Tooth is accompanied by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/" target="_blank">Martin Beek</a> and shows the portrait he made of her.)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arsaytoma-zoraida/" target="_blank">Zoraida de Torres:</a> Tell us a little about <span style="color: red;">yourself</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stellartist/" target="_blank">Stella Toth:</a> I am currently a student on the two year Portraiture Diploma course at <a href="http://www.heatherleys.org/" target="_blank">Heatherley's School of Fine Art</a> in Chelsea, where the pre-Raphaelites studied. I began the diploma in September last year, having completed a part time portfolio course at the same institution. Having worked as a print journalist, and then news pr at both the BBC and Sky News, the hope of a new career in art represents a major change of direction mid way through my life. Although it sometimes feels like a great leap into the dark, I have to admit I'm having fun seeking the light! At Heatherley's I draw and paint from life and examples of my work can be found on </span><a href="http://www.stellatooth.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">www.stellatooth.co.uk</span></a><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Z: Tell us about <span style="color: red;">your art</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">S: The human form is my inspiration - particularly the face. I enjoy the way light reveals its colour and shape and how our faces and bodies record the lives we lead. Beauty is something that cannot fail to please the eye, but I am more interested in truth and conveying feeling.</span> </div>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I mainly draw in charcoal and graphite and paint in oils. And my hope, at the moment, is simply to increase in competence, try out different techniques and perhaps, in time, to find my voice. At that stage I hope my work will appeal to others.</span> <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Z: Tell us about <span style="color: red;">your technique</span></span></b> <br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">S: At the moment I am trying something new - instead of creating an underpainting, I am drawing with charcoal and fixing it prior to painting. I find it quite liberating knowing that the lines of my careful drawing will be visible as I paint so I can concentrate on how I apply it.</span> <br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I would say I am a tonal painter who is falling in love with colour. My technique is smooth but I am drawn, more and more, to try a more energetic, expressive technique a la Lucien Freud.</span> <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Z: Tell us about the <span style="color: red;">reaction you have had to your work</span></span></b> <br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">S: I started putting my work online in September via Flickr, Facebook and my website. It's mostly viewed by friends, including ex colleagues, and JKPP artists who are unfailingly encouraging, supportive and offer much valued constructive criticism. One or two have kindly asked if my work's for sale, which has definitely sent my spirits soaring!</span> <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Z: Tell us about <span style="color: red;">who inspired/inspires you</span></span></b> <br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">S: Since September I have been studying art history and learning more about the British milieu in which I am working. Focusing on those artists that I most admire in terms of having relevance to my art, I would once have said <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/robert-bevan-748" target="_blank">Robert Bevan</a> (his portraits) and <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/harold-gilman-1172" target="_blank">Harold Gilman</a> were those who most inspired me but, more and more, I am looking for inspiration to <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/euan-uglow-2084" target="_blank">Euan Uglow</a>, <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lucian-freud-1120" target="_blank">Lucien Freud</a> and <a href="http://www.taischierenberg.com/Taiweb01/Home.html" target="_blank">Tai Shen Shierenberg</a>.</span> <br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I have read many wonderfully practical art books of late, including Betty Edwards' <i><a href="http://www.drawright.com/" target="_blank">Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain</a> </i>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1585422193/drawiontherights/104-4876325-5065553" target="_blank"><i>Colour</i></a>, Harold Speed's <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Painting-Techniques-Materials-Dover-Instruction/dp/0486255069" target="_blank">Oil Painting Techniques and Materials</a> </i>and my former teacher Ian Rowlands' <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Drawing-Foundation-Course-Rowlands/dp/1844033910" target="_blank"><i>Life Drawing</i></a>. My favourite art website on the moment is <a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/">Google Art Project</a>, where you can examine great art around the world close up, and <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/home/">Stumble Upon</a>, which helps you discover the best of the web in the areas you have an interest. I also enjoy the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Ancient Artist</a> blog about developing an art career after 50. In addition, I watch a lot of arts programming on <a href="http://skyarts.sky.com/" target="_blank">Sky Arts</a> and enjoyed most a recent series called <i><a href="http://halogentv.com/shows/artinprogress/" target="_blank">Art in Progress</a> </i>which captured a specific moment in an artist's creative life.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Z: Tell us (briefly) about <span style="color: red;">you and JKPP</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">S: My fellow student at Heatherley's, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maureennathan/" target="_blank">Maureen Nathan</a>, recommended I join <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/" target="_blank">JKPP</a> as a way of being able to draw at home when there is no access to the life model. I had no idea back then what a gift she had given me in membership of a worldwide community of like-minded artists who offer each other encouragement, support, inspiration - and friendship. I have very much enjoyed meeting familiar faces in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/72157625536672676/" target="_blank">London</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1658745@N21/" target="_blank">Oxford</a> that I had only previously met online. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliakay/" target="_blank">Julia</a>'s movement has helped atomised artists around the world to realise we are part of a shared endeavour. I am now looking forward to trying something entirely new, becoming an active member and occasional contributor to Maureen's <a href="htpp://www.flickr.com/groups/1598856@N20/" target="_blank">Lots of Landscapes</a> group.</span> <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">To find more about Stella Tooth and see her work, visit:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stellartist/">Stella Tooth on Flickr</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.stellatooth.co.uk/">Stella Tooth - her website</a> </span>Zoraidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02637778616585860698noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-68163864204339620902011-04-03T15:28:00.000-07:002011-04-14T17:01:13.508-07:00An interview with Spanish artist Zoraida de Torres Burgos<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioygHPChyphenhyphenRLASLsM6eQXCIKiRwmF-qfTt59_MZaiaU5Dkd30NzfVd0U8Y-OPQb0GmnE8Oh-YhGYnjSEmTnNTiX3mrQOqSkjKCdEQ9QvFe4FqTNAc1xBO5UUNOM_2ylJ1BcejqdeXbP4jZ-/s1600/London+meet+up+5+December+2010+drawing+by+Arsaytoma.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591494158656190754" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioygHPChyphenhyphenRLASLsM6eQXCIKiRwmF-qfTt59_MZaiaU5Dkd30NzfVd0U8Y-OPQb0GmnE8Oh-YhGYnjSEmTnNTiX3mrQOqSkjKCdEQ9QvFe4FqTNAc1xBO5UUNOM_2ylJ1BcejqdeXbP4jZ-/s400/London+meet+up+5+December+2010+drawing+by+Arsaytoma.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 284px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAg8yjwBy_zA8X07io28-Pwj4jAUkHc5IHCEJ0ctwxCrrA3lf3GJ3NOCf6dWbiLzXztrmQx4XtE0jbYsesYO3NNvRovj5zQaNFPjktnIlqfY4aKkrdkE7vBwJK45sUnhfG-iHnFhI0mIa/s1600/London+meet+up+5+December+2010+drawing+by+Arsaytoma.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 115%;">Spanish artist Zoraida de Torres Burgos, Flickr name Arsaytoma, draws inspiration from the supportive Flickr community.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Through her membership of JKPP, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>she says she has become “addicted” to portrait painting and has now proposed a JKPP meet up in Barcelona in the Spring when the city is “particularly beautiful and there are fewer tourists than in the Summer”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In her drawing (left), inspired by a photo by Martin Beek taken at the London 2010 JKPP meet up, she is pictured to the immediate right of the pillar. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">She speaks here about herself, her art and her involvement with JKPP.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Tell us a little about <span style="color: red;">yourself</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I live in Barcelona and work at home as a literary translator. I have no formal art training. I adored drawing when I was a little girl and used to paint occasionally in my adult life. In August 2009, when I was 45, I signed up for Flickr and discovered a never-ending source of inspiration and a supportive community that has encouraged me to draw and paint more and more.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Tell us about <span style="color: red;">your art</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">My approach to art is intuitive, a way to express, without reflection, what I see or what I have in my heart. I tend to make simplified images, without perspective, volume or shadows. I use bold lines and flat colour surfaces, sometimes with decorative patterns. I love to paint people, or the everyday objects related to people's lives.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Tell us about <span style="color: red;">your technique</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I don't have a favourite technique. I can draw in black and white with markers, colour a scanned sketch or produce something from scratch with a graphics tablet, paint with acrylics... The subject determines the medium selected, always in an unconscious way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Tell us about the<span style="color: red;"> reaction</span> <span style="color: red;">you have had to your work</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">At various moments of my life, a number of my drawings have been used to illustrate stories, posters etc., but it has been mostly since joining Flickr that my work has been seen outside my circle of relatives and friends. I'm always very pleased to see people's comments!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Tell us about <span style="color: red;">who inspired/inspires you</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The styles that inspire me most are naive art and all kinds of primitive, folk and outsider art. I'm also interested in cartoons, illustration and graphic design. And in photography, particularly press photos and the work of great photo portraitists, such as Seydou Keita.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See <a href="http://www.seydoukeitaphotographer.com/">http://www.seydoukeitaphotographer.com/</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Tell us about <span style="color: red;">you and JKPP</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">I discovered JKPP in July 2010, and I've become addicted to portrait painting! In addition, JKPP is a great place to enjoy the work of so many interesting artists. I've also taken the opportunity to meet wonderful people at the London meet up in December. Unfortunately, I missed the recent Oxford meet up but there will be further opportunities, since I hope there will be another JKPP meeting in Barcelona soon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">To see more of Zoraida’s work visit her Flickr photostream <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arsaytoma-zoraida/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/arsaytoma-zoraida/</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">To find out more about the Barcelona meet up visit <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/72157626406560492/">http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/72157626406560492/</a></span></div>Stella Toothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06223889684759393249noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-4408324961472013292011-03-31T03:00:00.000-07:002011-04-01T16:43:14.238-07:00Interview with an Artist - Sue Hodnett<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6gJL2j1ZnXLSejgjSusutCOirU-Lk8bwfySMOIMxOVgneDC5obF0rde50PVIvKiVciPtX9bgF3_vobmEtHnE7EaviLm3kz5QiE9ICYutoSaEOnbpqikzwM1IzSgdiwmxCtEPWjtw7oY6t/s1600/Sue+Hodnett+and+Julia+Kay%2527s+portrait+of+her.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590182941405705330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6gJL2j1ZnXLSejgjSusutCOirU-Lk8bwfySMOIMxOVgneDC5obF0rde50PVIvKiVciPtX9bgF3_vobmEtHnE7EaviLm3kz5QiE9ICYutoSaEOnbpqikzwM1IzSgdiwmxCtEPWjtw7oY6t/s400/Sue+Hodnett+and+Julia+Kay%2527s+portrait+of+her.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 75px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 75px;" /></a><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>JKPP Painter Sue Hodnett tells us about the "wild and windy" Northumbrian countryside which inspires her.</b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b>Sue is pictured here with her portrait of Julia Kay and Julia's portrait of her.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b>Tell us a little about yourself:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">I paint from my home in the beautiful Northumbrian countryside which is in the far north of England.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's often a wild and windy landscape and I love to experience it in all weathers with my sketchbook.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I'm not painting I can be found trundling around Hadrian's Wall where I manage a World Heritage Site.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b>Tell us about your art:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think of myself primarily as a landscape painter, following in the tradition of John Piper and Ivon Hitchens.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">I need to use portable media which is why watercolour is so important to me. Like Piper, heritage is an important part of my work - often trips out visiting sites are recorded in my sketchbooks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b>Tell us about your technique:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">Over the years I've developed a speedy approach to working, to fit in with the time constraints of having a young family and being a working Mum. I usually work on a couple of paintings at the same time which are completed 'alla prima". Paintings are often abstracted and further abstracted, so the initial image can be difficult to find. I'm not trying to capture what a place looks like, rather a sense of place.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b>Tell us about the reaction you have had to your work:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">I set my Flickr account up a year and a half ago just as I was turning 40, which was the first public showing of my work for 20 years. I guess work and family life take up so much of your time and energy that it's only now I have a little time for myself. I'm humbled by the comments people write but will always follow my own instinctive direction.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b>Tell us about who inspired/inspires you:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I lived in Orkney I went to a painting class run by an artist called Doug Muir. He taught me about landscape painting - how to simplify things and not get too precious about your work. He also introduced me to his extensive library of art books which he gifted to the Pier Arts Center in Stromness when he died. The book I would most like to see again is his Emil Nolde book, a thick book of rich watercolour landscapes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b>Tell us about you and JKPP:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">JKPP has a real community feel about it. I'm not in the art 'scene' in Northumberland, so the contact and correspondence with other JKPP members has opened up my art world. I'm particularly interested in the part it plays in encouraging all ages and abilities to make portraiture an 'art for all'.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><b>To find out more about Sue and see her work visit:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.suehodnett.co.uk/www.suehodnett.co.uk/Welcome.html" style="color: #3366cc; font-weight: bold;">Sue Hodnett - The Website</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/43843677@N06/" style="color: #3366cc; font-weight: bold;">Sue Hodnett on Flickr</a></div></span>Stella Toothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06223889684759393249noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-81641220552850085532011-03-28T11:55:00.000-07:002011-03-29T17:01:16.746-07:00Martin Beek talks about himself, his art and JKPP<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibcCnytcVyRAb69xLzyTrZ3eaurHq9M7GAYyv3g_huqFKeHbzc9-ilMMelhq_vKO42-w03JOHmJcgap_IzL2pH53N-B8NfyThZw3Ys1nWqbC3T6ytAvydyB7hGMxD_WuWUPxlGWz4CYtVx/s1600/Martin+Beek+at+Oxford+JKPP+meet+up.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; 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mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><br /></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><br /></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><br /></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><br /></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Martin Beek, one of the organisers of Saturday’s Oxford JKPP meet-up, provides an insight into himself, his art and his involvement with JKPP.</span></b></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><br /></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">His Flickr photostream </span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; "> <b>has over 19,000 photos and artworks by him and others – something he feels reflects life as he lives it now. See </b></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/</a></span></span></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><br /></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">In his profile he notes, “</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Flickr is a significant part of my creative life. Through Flickr I’ve made contact with so many like-minded people... I have always felt strongly that art should be shared.”</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Tell us</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> a little about yourself</span></b></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">I am</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">practising artist, although I do have a day job too. I studied Fine Art (BA Hons) and have had many public shows over the pas</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">t 30 years. I live in Oxford, England </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">and currently work in a representational style.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">I see art as an ongoing </span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">process of change </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">and build on what I have done to explore new ways of expressing the world as I see it.</span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Tell us a little about your art<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">As an </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">artist I work in a very wide range of media. Currently I use oil pastel/crayon and also pen and ink for my sketch studies. But I've covered most methods over the years. I believe art should somehow reflect and connect with emotion and, to that extent, I am an expressionistic artist.</span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">I can find a subject in most things around me. I like art that is both contemporary but an art that also connects with the ongoing tradition of art history. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I would hope that my art, taken as a whole, does have a meaning and a sense of purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><br /></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Tell us about your technique<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Colour and "mark making" are of vital importance to me as they suggest the subject and the mood I wish to convey. I hope my technique is uncomplicated , but realise that sometimes one needs to push a work to develop as a visual artist.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Tell us about the reaction you have had to your work<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">On the whole I think reaction to my work has been fair.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Although I'm not unafraid of helpful criticism, I’m rarely guided by what others may say about what I do - good or bad. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I respect anybody who passes informed criticism and hope I am my own most severe critic.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Tell us about who inspired/inspires you<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Impossible to name three artists that I would cite but, if I had to, the Victorian painter John Everett Millais, whose own art underwent huge changes of technique, interests me greatly - not just his Pre Raphaelite work, which was short lived, but his later landscapes and portraits. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>His visual acuity and brilliance should not be dismissed or overlooked. I think David Hockney is inspirational for his restless eye and <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>ceaseless production as is Van Gogh, for his transformation of the common life into a new visual language that is so powerful and vital.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">I'm also inspired by the new Google art gallery views.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It takes me to places I may not see, and experience glimpses of art in far off places. See<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/">http://www.googleartproject.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><br /></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Tell us about you and JKPP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">The JKPP has been, since the start, an entirely positive group that I find fascinating to participate in. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It has enabled good connections with artists from all over the planet, and is inspirational in its simplicity of intent.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Stella Toothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06223889684759393249noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-68638120535830489552011-03-27T01:54:00.000-07:002011-04-01T16:44:02.883-07:00Interview with an Artist - Jane Sherwood<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTQeIJgYNi2a1NpHiO1iH48vDb1Cdy2Pk6b7xqF_T0dwCqOLnMDJNBArfmx9LVfGhn3FiCgURnD3MYtxoRggHarnR4KfWF2HidlZbVtvdvCiDTTGSc7jJWUI-RISbtmd7tiofeqr53rG5/s1600/Oxford+JKPP+meet+%25285%2529.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588726221055732258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTQeIJgYNi2a1NpHiO1iH48vDb1Cdy2Pk6b7xqF_T0dwCqOLnMDJNBArfmx9LVfGhn3FiCgURnD3MYtxoRggHarnR4KfWF2HidlZbVtvdvCiDTTGSc7jJWUI-RISbtmd7tiofeqr53rG5/s320/Oxford+JKPP+meet+%25285%2529.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">Jane Sherwood, host of yesterday’s JKPP meet-up in Oxford, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>tells us here about herself, her art, and her involvement with the group.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">She is pictured, second from the right, with other JKPP members at the Oxford event, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>holding portraits of themselves by other JKPP members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Fellow organiser</span> Martin Beek is pictured second from left. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Tell us a little about yourself</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am a vicar in a small church/community centre in South Oxford, a church that has a very artistic heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a husband and two kids – Sam and Sophia .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I work at home, working from photos or still life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoy the challenge of working from live subjects, when I have the opportunity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Tell us about your art</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have reawakened to art in 2010, having not done much for many years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But now I want to paint in every spare minute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am moved by beauty and am always attempting to capture and interpret it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Tell us about your technique</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Since my reawakening in 2010 I have been working mainly in acrylics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love vibrant colours and the visibility of this medium.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Tell us about the reaction you’ve had to your work</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have found my main encouragement to continue painting on Flickr, and in participating in JKPP and `Lots of Landscapes’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These groups stretch, encourage and inspire me continually.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Tell us about who inspired/inspires you</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am particularly inspired by Matisse, Renoir, Van Gogh and Gauguin. Other Flickr artists always inspire me, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>as well as my current favourite art book.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Tell us about you and JKPP</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">JKPP has been the main reason for me starting into portraiture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an incredibly inspiring, accepting and encouraging group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>It has become more than an interest group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a community of real people who love art, and is something of an art movement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">***</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Watch this space to find out more about other JKPP artists who met up to draw and paint each other <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>in the church/community centre where Jane is a vicar. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>Stella Toothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06223889684759393249noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-25143476727766238582011-03-26T14:53:00.000-07:002011-03-26T15:04:30.659-07:00Celebrating JKPP's First Birthday in Oxford todayHappy Birthday JKPP! A great day was had by all who could make it to St Luke's Church in Oxford today and even those who couldn't were there in spirit with a great selection of portraits from all over the world together with an exhibition of self portrait postcards to celebrate 10,000 JKPP portraits!<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzNnHjW6OgMNQjBpsnCE9P-0diPZY8ybuSx8oPL60L9LvLhbBVI2QCWm2FVcuhg-qwKXuq3PCyUBp_Y3JtFXQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-43214377632810619642011-03-23T09:14:00.000-07:002011-03-23T09:18:07.954-07:00Lessons from a demo portrait done on an ipad<iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5OLP4nbAVA4?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><div><br /></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I came across this video by artist David Kazan by chance last year and it made me realise the possibilities of 'painting' portraits digitally on an ipad or other touch screen. I always like watching the process of a painting or drawing develop and it's interesting to see that the same 'rules' apply here as with pencil and paper - start general with big shapes of light/dark and then move to the specific /detail. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Seeing the early stages of this short piece also encouraged me not to ditch a digital image too soon - just as in any drawing (or painting) I find I often go through a stage where nothing looks like I think it should but <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">if </span>I can hold steady, ignore the little voices and keep going it usually works out better than I thought it might at that early stage (even if it's not how I originally thought!)</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hope you enjoy it!</span></span></p> </div><div><br /></div>Anna Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852702160879777979noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2393681466332378320.post-62939383063496431642011-03-20T16:07:00.000-07:002011-03-21T15:17:05.719-07:00Welcome to Julia Kay's Portrait Party Blog!In March 2010 Julia Kay started a portrait party on Flickr and <span style="font-size: large;">Julia Kay's Portrait Party</span> was born! <br />
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The rules of the party are simple, each artist posts a selection of photos of themselves from which all members of the group can draw and paint their portrait. All members of the group are therefore both subjects of portraits and creators of portraits.<br />
The Party was an instant success, 60 artists joined in the first week, drawing more than 200 portraits of each other, including two dozen of Julia Kay. After 6 weeks, we had 150 members from around the world who had posted more than 1400 portraits of each other. <br />
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One year on and the party (affectionately known as JKPP) is still in full swing with over 450 members and over 10,000 portraits!<br />
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But it's impossible to express the impact of the party in just numbers. <br />
I had always wanted to paint portraits, but it’s not always easy to find the sitters in the ‘real world’. So JKPP opened up a fantastic resource – not only photographic, but also for the inspiration of seeing everyone else's style and technique. It’s a huge motivation to have the encouragement and support of the thriving group of diverse artists that is JKPP! <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Over the last year I’ve painted and drawn in totally new ways than I’m used to. And after I added my photos to the pool it was a whole new joy to see the amazing and creative versions of me. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annewatkins/sets/72157623609452008/"><span style="color: #21bba0;">Anne Watkins</span></a> summed it up beautifully <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">-</span><span style="color: purple;"> <span style="color: #274e13;">waking up to find new portraits of herself was like finding love notes in a bottle – treasures flung across the unknown – from people she could not hear or touch, only see and imagine.</span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="color: black;">This blog aims to give more of an insight into JKPP's art, artists, portraits and portrayed. We'll talk tips and techniques, exhibitions and reviews. With so many members, everyone's view of the portrait party will be different, I can't wait to read them all here!</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="color: black;">I couldn't think of a better way to kick off the blog than with a selection of some of my favourite portraits of the party's fantastic founder and host, Julia Kay...</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4663832890_500eb116ed_z_d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4663832890_500eb116ed_z_d.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="color: black;">Julia Kay by <span class="fn n"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/30441214@N08/"><span class="given-name">Gloria </span><span class="family-name">Rendón</span></a></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2777/4434968250_93cac9e8da_d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2777/4434968250_93cac9e8da_d.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="fn n"><span class="family-name">Julia Kay by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/38539603@N04/">Virginia Hein</a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4025/4521617540_0809c01c5c_d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4025/4521617540_0809c01c5c_d.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Julia Kay by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariahoneill/">Mariah O'Neill</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1290/4593744472_95b9e6b508_d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1290/4593744472_95b9e6b508_d.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Julia Kay by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallytorta/">Wally Torta</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To see many more amazing portraits see <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/">Julia Kay's Portrait Party on Flickr</a>.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">For a great description of the birth of the Portrait Party and it's exciting growth, see <a href="http://womensvoicesforchange.org/portraits-swim-across-the-internet-like-love-notes-in-a-bottle.htm"><span style="color: #888888;">Julia's article</span></a> on the <a href="http://womensvoicesforchange.org/"><span style="color: #21bba0;">Women's Voices for Change</span></a> site.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">To see Julia Kay's own art have a look at her Flickr Photostream <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7540599@N08/">here</a>.</div>Ceccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05324152950303305431noreply@blogger.com14