Cosplay... Is An Art: Anime LA 2016

via Nerd Reactor

The Birds

Film Appreciation

If you haven't seen Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, do yourself a favor, find it, rent it, borrow it and watch it.

The horror film, which stars Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor and Jessica Tandy, is loosely based on the 1925 story by Daphne du Maurier about a unexplained bird attack on people of Bodega Bay, California.

via Movieclips Trailer Vault

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)
http://www.moviefone.com/2013/03/25/the-birds-alfred-hitchcock-25-things-you-didnt-know/

Mary Sauer

Art Appreciation

While surfing art blogs, I came across a painting titled Genevieve by American artist Mary Sauer. The painting features a woman in a blue dress lounging on a couch with a box fan in the background and two cats in the image. Perhaps the woman is returning from an evening out, and finds serenity at home. Maybe she is contemplating how the evening went.

Influenced by John Singer Sargent, Mary Sauer is known for her impressionistic figurative oil paintings of women and children.

You can see more of her wonderful work HERE.

Genevieve via anartfulnature

Levi II via themotherofnine9

Sources:

http://www.marysauerart.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mary.sauer.581/
https://www.instagram.com/marysauerart/
http://marysauer.blogspot.com/
http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Mary_Sauer.aspx
http://www.southwestart.com/articles-interviews/emerging-artists/21-under-31-mary-sauer
http://anartfulnature.blogspot.com/2012/07/painting-of-day-painting-by-mary-sauer.html
https://themotherofnine9.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/capturing-vulnerabilty-on-canvas/

Matthew Barney

Art Appreciation

While visiting the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, I came across the creativity of American artist Matthew Barney. The museum was screening The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films that incorporates Barney's sculptures, photographs, and drawings with the concept of ascending and descending of the male's cremaster muscle.

Fawn, Cremaster 4 (1994) via iamzhangyuan

via luetrange

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Barney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cremaster_Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVQQtypy_6GNIeAWnp1FfVg
https://iamzhangyuan.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/matthew-barney/
http://benoliverisalive.blogspot.com/2007/10/matthew-barney-drawing-restraint.html
http://averymccarthy.blogspot.com/2009/03/sculpture-and-performance-art-by.html

Painting with acrylics

A friend of mine inspired me to paint an image I took of my son running to first base during baseball practice. The painting turned out better than I thought.

The method I used was tracing a printout of the photograph on a transparancy. The background was done first freehand, then the image was projected on the canvas. I traced the trees and the running paths then painted. After I finished, I projected the image of my son and traced it. The challenge I faced was that the projection was not clear, so I improvised and relied on my observation of the image to complete the painting.

Dance: Igor Stravinsky "The Rite of Spring"

Dance Appreciation

Choreography: Maurice Béjart

via Kanál uživatele Chlap77

Daryl Zang

Art Appreciation

Born in New York City, Daryl Zang is known for her self-portraits that are based on moments in her life such as pregnancy and motherhood. She explains, on her Facebook page, that her journals serve as a guide when developing her paintings.

You can view a video about the artist HERE and visit her website HERE.

Acceptance via artslant 

Wonder via artodyssey1 

Drained via poramoralarte-exposito 

Sources:

http://zangstudios.com/blog/
https://www.facebook.com/darylzang.artist
https://vimeo.com/114386668
http://www.cavaliergalleries.com/artist/Daryl_Zang/biography/
http://womenpaintingwomen.blogspot.com/2014/08/daryl-zang.html
http://artodyssey1.blogspot.com/2010/08/daryl-zang-art-for-me-is-deeply.html
http://poramoralarte-exposito.blogspot.com/2015/07/daryl-zang.html
http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/175184-daryl-zang