Monday 31 August 2009
Design Team Inspiration
Wassily Kandinsky - On White II
Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.
In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Azbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War 1 started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-seine in 1944.
called 'On White II'
Shazza
JULY/AUGUST WINNERS
is
Michelle Beeby
with her entry - A colorful life is a life well lived
Congratulations Michelle and thanks for participating, your entry was fantastic and your win was well deserved, you are now the proud owner of the Princess Swatchbook.
and the winner, drawn by my daughter Jenna,
is
Joanne Powell
The winner of the Andy Warhol submission, voted by the rest of the Design Team
is
Tash Allen
Here is her submission for the month called 'Features'
Congratulations Tash, your submission was very eye catching, I will be sending you a RAK for your fantastic creative layout.
Could all the winners please email me their details to: shazzaalleyes@hotmail.com so I can get your prizes posted out to you.
I would like to thank all the ladies that submitted entries for the month, we had eleven in total which has been a great response. The quality of work of some of the entries was outstanding and made it very hard to pick the winner! I am sure the rest of the Design Team would agree with me....
I hope you all get a chance to participate in the challenge for September, which has just been posted. We also have two new sponsors for September, so all in all next month is looking great!
Cheers
Shazza
Sunday 30 August 2009
Winner for August!
So, thankyou Ladies and I hope you all get a chance to participate in the challenge for September, which has just been posted. We also have two new sponsors for September, so all in all next month is looking great!
The DT submissions will be posted shortly, lots and lots of inspiration to be gained from their gorgeous layouts.
All entries can be emailed to shazzaalleyes@hotmail.com
Cheers
Shazza
September inspiration from Wassily Kandinsky - On white II
We have another entry for the month, this one is from.......
This is my take.... I used some of the colours and the idea of squares.... This was a really tough one ladies and really had me thinking out of the box!
Cheers Shazza
Wednesday 26 August 2009
......and this is number ten, from.....
Peggy, I love your page, the background masking effect looks fab. The journal tag says: I'm a little bit of everything. The words say it all - saint, sinner, bitch, mother, lover and child.
The whole layout really stand out. Thanks for your entry :) Cheers Shazza.
Time is ticking away................... So, if you are planning on entering this month ..... midnight Saturday night the 29th is the deadline!
Tuesday 25 August 2009
Our ninth entry for the month, from.....
This is what Tracey had to say: I liked the idea of repetition with a rainbow of colours. My daughters t-shirt has a rainbow and music on it. I figured that colouring the ukulele in a rainbow of colours would all tie in nicely with the Andy Warhol inspiration.
Well done!!
The journaling says 'Plucking out a tune in Fiji in 2009. Just Chillin!!!' Thanks for your entry :)
Cheers
Shazza
Time is ticking away................... So, if you are planning on entering this month ..... midnight Saturday night the 29th is the deadline!
We have another layout to share, a Heath Ledger tribute from ......
This is what Tanya had to say.......
what inspired me was some gorgeous photos that I had seen that were from vanity fair, so it got me thinking about andy warhol-ing him, I struggled with journalling because his death had such an impact on me, so I just used the lyrics from eskimo joe's song Foreign Land which was written about Heath.
"This is what it feels to love
then l can feel that
This is what it feels to love
then l can feel that
Even when you're all alone
When it's not your home
I smell the blood of an Australian
Try to understand this if you can
if you can"
Cheers Shazza
Sunday 16 August 2009
Mini ART Exhibition......
We have had seven fantastic entries for this months Andy Warhol challenge. There is still plenty of time to submit an entry for the month, using this criteria:
Shazza
Saturday 8 August 2009
WOW! Another fantastic layout to share, this time from.....
I was inspired by all the colours of Andy Warhol’s art work. As soon as I saw this challenge I knew exactly which photos I wanted to use. What I didn’t know was how I was going to set them out until I cut them out individually and then they just fell into place. by Brenda Wyllie
Ooh wow Brenda! I love all of this, great idea using the clock face to space out the pics, I even love the little wavy clock arm. You must be very pleased with how this turned out, cheers Shazza
Friday 7 August 2009
Another Fantastic Layout to Share with you all.....
Joanne Powell - Moments are Memories Forever.
This is what Joanne had to say......................I LOVE the colours of Andy Warhol's art. I guess what inspired me is obvious. My gorgeous man also inspired me after he pointed out how many shots there were of us together :)
Thank you Shazza I love this challenge it was fun to do something a little different!
Joanne this looks fabulous, great effort, some really fantastic pics of the two of you together. I also love the sentiment in the centre of your layout! cheers Shazza
Thursday 6 August 2009
Our Month's Artist "ANDY WARHOL'
Andrew Warhola, August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avante-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.
Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and features and documentary films. He coined the expression "15 minutes of fame".
Andy Warhol Commercial Art is our inspiration for the month of August, please send your entries to shazzaalleyes@hotmail.com.
Shazza
Tuesday 4 August 2009
Another DT contribution to hang in the gallery, this time from....
This is what Tash had to say.......What inspired me most about the Warhol painting was the bright colours with the hint of black, and the grid formation, which I replicated with paint and soft brush strokes around the photo. I also could not go past this photo of my son Isaac at 10 months old... I had this printed for a while and never quite knew what to do with it. It was one of those photos that captured his features so well but was totally over-exposed. I decided to play around with it a bit in Photoshop rather than delete it and see what results I could get.... and this was it! Totally Andy Warhol! I also added a bit of black pen doodling around the butterfly in the felt as a subtle link back to the painting. Thanks for looking :)
I just love it, you have put a lot of work into this, and its turned out fabulous. The other DT members will love it too!! Cheers Shazza
Monday 3 August 2009
We have another layout today, this time from....
This is Josies take on the challenge, and her first time as an entrant on ARTastic, here's what she had to say.......
I'm proud of my work I hope you like it.
Thanks for your entry, your wedding page is great! I love your work. Everyone is different, my pages tend to be very basic compared to a lot of other ladies. Well being a carer is a big job in itself, its a wonder your not too tired to scrap. Well, hopefully you can win more embellies for your pages, so Good Luck!! From Shazza