http://studioconstantine.com/blog Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:34:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My new group show is going to be great!  So Many awesome artists bringing all styles to O-Town!  I'm working on some mixed media pieces on paper - should be something different and exciting ... (I may even bring out a large painting and let it go at the $100 ... http://studioconstantine.com/blog/2010/11/21/grab-n-go-go-go-go-go/ It occurs to me that I haven't yet posted this painting that I finished some time before going on last month's trip to L.A.  This painting came about in a rather unusual way - unusual for me, anyway.  As I was perusing (read: wasting time on) Facebook, I came across ... http://studioconstantine.com/blog/2010/11/12/mimicry-of-life-or-improbable-paintings-of-birds-on-geologic-phenomena/ WWA gallery didn't fail to please!  Located in the heart of the self-proclaimed uber artsy Culver City, CA, the gallery is a growing hot spot for emerging artists and established players in the contemporary art world.  I was excited to be invited out again; this time to the Horrorwood show. ... http://studioconstantine.com/blog/2010/11/05/the-horror-is-over-or-is-it/ I’ve just sent off my newest painting/s – a diptych called, “The World in Mirror.”  It’ll be shown to the public for the first time at the upcoming group show, “Horrorwood,” at Culver City’s awesome contemporary art spot, WWA gallery.  It’ll be my second showing in California, having shown at ... http://studioconstantine.com/blog/2010/10/05/horrorwood-is-so-on-totally/ I am furiously finishing up my contribution to my upcoming group show in California - HORRORWOOD!  Just in time for Halloween, a horror movie themed show approaches Culver City.  Doom is in the air! My contribution will be a diptych about the gill-man known as the Creature from the Black Lagoon. ... http://studioconstantine.com/blog/2010/09/19/the-creature-lives1/ [caption id="attachment_259" align="alignnone" width="500" caption=""Space Magic," acrylic, spraypaint and paper collage on wood, 36" dia., 2010"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_260" align="alignnone" width="500" caption=""Space Magic," detail"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_261" align="alignnone" width="500" caption=""Space Magic," detail"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_262" align="alignnone" width="500" caption=""Space Magic," detail"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_263" align="alignnone" width="500" caption=""Space Magic," detail"][/caption] I'm fascinated with layers.  This round canvas offered me a challenge ... http://studioconstantine.com/blog/2010/08/16/new-painting-just-finished-space-magic/ [caption id="attachment_251" align="alignnone" width="168" caption="Sundays at Lake Eola in Downtown Orlando, from 10am-4pm"][/caption] So, I've decided to take the Icons out again - this time to the Orlando Farmers Market at Lake Eola, in downtown Orlando.  You can find me there on Sundays from 10am-4pm.  I will have the Icons, (you ... http://studioconstantine.com/blog/2010/08/07/now-showing-sundays-at-the-orlando-farmers-market-at-lake-eola/ JOIN ME THIS SUNDAY & EVERY SUNDAY THERE AFTER FROM NOON-6:00pm FOR THE NEON FOREST ARTS & CRAFTS BAZAAR AT 1737-1741 SOUTH ORANGE AVENUE 32806 The Neon Forest Arts and Crafts Bazaar every Sunday for the rest of the summer! There's  a nice group of vendors rounded up and feature everything from arts & ... http://studioconstantine.com/blog/2010/07/23/im-at-the-neon-forest-art-bazaar-on-sundays/ After my much beleaguered attempt at printing earlier this week, I decided to get myself a press.  Being the way I am, (that's read:  an impetuous pain in the ass,) I had to have one immediately.  No catalog ordering, no traveling a ba-jillion miles to go get it.... no, no, ... http://studioconstantine.com/blog/2010/06/21/looking-good-billy-ray-feeling-good-louis/ So, I brought my family to Miami for the monthly Design District Gallery Walk.  Having never done it before, I figured we'd go and stumble through it no matter what; just get the feel for it and try to figure it out as we go.  While the Design District's website ... http://studioconstantine.com/blog/2010/06/13/setting-my-sights-on-miami/