has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
SEE VIDEO HERE:
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Lets face it. Santa was asking for it........ The man: 1.) "Breaks and enters" illegally over a billion times each year........ on Jesus' birth day. 2.) Depends on exploitative labor of people under three feet tall. 3.) Could be the cause of the Polar ice caps melting. 4.) Flies without a license and at his own leisure.....while the rest of us get frisked and go through metal detectors before flying. Could the north pole be harboring terrorists? Anyway.....Its the holiday season....so....... I created an artwork of Mr. Santa Claus getting arrested for all of his transgressions. I started out with a pencil drawing (regular #2 pencil. Then I added a layer of marker. I followed the layer of marker with a layer of color pencil. After the color pencil, I added oil paint and liquin. Finally, I scanned the image and did touch ups in Paint Shop Pro 9. Happy Holidays from Merrill Kazanjian
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To celebrate the start of the 2009-2010 NBA season, I merged the faces of four of the NBA's biggest stars ( LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Kobe Bryant of the Lakers, Dwayne Wade of the Miami Heat and Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets). I used both Photoshop CS3 and Paint Shop Pro 9 to make this "artmorph". I basically made digital cut outs from Creative Commons (CC) Photos. I used the blending tool a bit, the digital scissor (scalpel), I also used a very helpful light/dark tool to make highlights and shadows.
1.) pencil
2.) then I used prismacolor markers
3.) followed by color pencil (prismacolor)
4.) then I scanned what I did so far and opened it up in.....
5.) Photoshop- (digital adjustments)
6.) Printed on a wide format printer
7.) 1 more layer of color pencil
8.) Oil paint
9.) Photoshop
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1.) pencil
2.) then I used prismacolor markers
3.) followed by color pencil (prismacolor)
4.) then I scanned what I did so far and opened it up in.....
5.) Photoshop- (digital adjustments)
6.) Printed on a wide format printer
7.) 1 more layer of color pencil
8.) Oil paint
9.) Photoshop
What is youtubes place in art history? Thoughts????
was listening to the radio on my way to class one day and the DJ started talking about a naked yoga class. Visual images rushed to my mind! I started to sketch out my ideas. Couldn't concentrate on the school stuff. I came home and did this video. Sometimes inspiration can be stupid! But it's still inspiration so I went with it! True story.
-Merrill Kazanjian
These are the steps that I took to make this character. (How I made it)
1.) Pencil Drawing
2.) Layer of Prismacolor and AD Markers
3.) Scan with scanner and use Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro 9 to do a digital collage.
4.) Print on to new sheet of paper
5.) Layer of Color Pencil over the Printout (to tie things together and prime the paper for Oil Paint)
6.) Layer of Opaque (cant see through it) Oil Paint
7.) Scan again
8.) Use PSP and Photoshop CS3 again to touch up my "Nude Yoga Man Character"
9.) Save as a PNG file (Portable Network Graphic) PNG's are like stickers- you could stick them over any digital file as many times as you want.
See more of my characters at http://merrillk.com
