Northwest Florida Arts Association
Archive for April, 2010
NWFLAA 2010 Fall Festival of the Arts
Apr 18th
We have scheduled our next art festival for November 13 & 14, 2010 at Uptown Station. Artists interested in participating can download the application here -
Artist Application
Jean Pugh’s Mosaics
Apr 16th
Jean Pugh (no relation to John Pugh of my previous post) photographed the progression of her last mosaic piece. I’ve always been a fan of seeing or reading about the process an artist uses to get their final piece of art work. Not only can you learn from it, but it usually is very cool. The following are Jean’s pictures and descriptions used with her permission.
“The start of Regal Red (rough sketch for Stained Glass Mosaic). Collaborative piece by Artists: Jean V. Pugh and Andreas Goff. I met Andreas in February 2010, at the Cox Communications Black History Arts Festival in Pensacola, FL He creates beautiful African and Native American Heads. After seeing my mosaics, he asked me if I’d like to work on a piece together. To make a long story short. He created four heads for me to work with. This is the beginning of Regal Red.”
“Sketch on Cabinet door.”
“I did a rough sketch on a plain cabinet door and attached the head to it using Weldbond Adhesive.”
“Further along and trying to decide on how to place the jewelry.”
“Let the GROUTING begin!!! This is my least favorite part of creating mosaics.”
“Still had to attach the jewelry. The hardest part is over!”
Jean added the jewelry after everything was dry. Thanks Jean for a look into creating mosaics.
PiXeLS
Apr 8th
This is seriously one of the most well done short videos I have ever seen.
Forget 2012, Armageddon, even Dawn of the Dead.
THIS… is scary.
Seriously though. This video is not only mind-blowingly visionary, but incredibly brilliant and painfully perfect in its execution.
John Pugh – Trompe l’oeil Artist
Apr 1st
A friend of mine emailed me about the artist John Pugh. I had never heard of him. As it turns out, John Pugh is an amazing Trompe l’oeil artist from California. His studio is actually located in the upper peaks of the Santa Cruz mountains. Trompe l’oeil….what is it? What little I remember from my college art history classes (which seems like a million years ago) are paintings like these:
Ceiling Oculus - Andrea Mantegna 1471-74
Ceiling in the Church of St Ignazio - Andrea Pozzo 1685-94
The official definition of Trompe l’oeil is the art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear three dimensional, instead of actually being a two dimensional painting.
Below are the kind of Trompe l’oeil murals John Pugh paints:
Taylor Hall, California Stae University
Bay in a Bottle
The passer-by is part of this mural and the next mural.
Main Street
John Pugh
“I have found that the ‘language’ of life-size illusions allow me to communicate with a very large audience. It seems almost universal that people take delight in being visually tricked. Once captivated by the illusion, the viewers are lured to cross an artistic threshold and thus seduced into exploring the concept of the piece.” - John Pugh
