Recent Activities of and on Mark Erickson
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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.
ARTDOXA says thank you for your participation and sympathy.
Mark Erickson
birgit zartl wrote on January 08, 2013 19:50:
many thanks for comment and fav, Mark! much appreciated :-)
birgit zartl wrote on November 20, 2012 16:06:
many thanks for your kind words, Mark! :-)
Anne Sophie Lorange wrote on October 10, 2011 14:33:
Thank you Mark! Congrats on your artwork:)
Best wishes
Anne Sophie
Tom Benkendorff wrote on October 02, 2011 03:49:
Hi Mark,
If you look at Tom Benkendorff''s Artdoxa gallery you will see that he has many figurative drawings, linocuts, wtercolour sketches and paintings, acrylic paintings that have no digital manipulation or input. The artworks that employ digital manipulation to as an aid to create the images clearly state that in the text below his images. Using digital technology as an aid for his artwork is a relatively new approach. He uses this as a means of keeping costs down.
Mark Erickson wrote on September 28, 2011 02:18:
Indeed it does. I just go for the simple angle, brush and palette knife on canvas.
I find your #2 way something i can relate to. When i was at the University they had this huge gorgeous overhead projector and i used it to do photo-realistic paintings. After i graduated i moved onto something less time consuming. Well the bars and the music got in the way back then maybe too. Then the paint really began to fly.
Thanks for explaining and coming by my gallery postings here.
best...Mark
Tom Benkendorff wrote on September 28, 2011 01:24:
Hi Mark,
My acrylic paintings are done one of three ways : - (1) I use Adobe Photoshop to layer combine and digitally manipulate my photographs and sketches then I lighten the image and print onto watercolour paper. I tape down the watercolour paper and put washes in watercolour and acrylic over the top till the work is complete. I glue the water colour paper onto canvas with an acrylic waterproof non-acid glue. Glaze in acrylic till compete. (2) I use Adobe Photoshop to layer combine and digitally manipulate my photographs and sketches then I make an Overhead Projector Film Transparency and project it onto a stretched canvas painting in in acrylic. I add acrylic translucent glaze washes till complete. (3) On a few works I have had a local signwriting firm print my digitally manipulated images onto canvas. I put this onto a stretcher frame and paint in highlights, texture, modify darks that look flat, in other words try to make it come alive.
The inks the signwriter uses in his machine are "guaranteed light fast for two hundred years". So I thought that way is better than me laying down base washes that are thinned and will not adhere to the surface as well as his pigment inks in acrylic.
Does this help you?
Tom
birgit zartl wrote on September 27, 2011 22:08:
many thanks Mark! :-)