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Art Studio Tours ?
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on 16th May 2012
 
This past week end was the Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows 14th Annual Art Studio Tour. A lot of preparations and marketing goes into this yearly event especially this year. We as a group decided to showcase participating artists and artisans at the local Home Show the previous week end. A very busy time, with lots of hours put into event as well as...

May Updates
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on 10th May 2012
 
I have a new digital drawing, "Dark Pool," plus a lot of news. Please see the May updates on my RL blog here: http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/ The post includes an artists opportunity.

Coming Soon!
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on 8th May 2012
 
Still in the works

Interview for xLegion
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on 30th April 2012
 
This is an interview I did for xlegion.net Black Cat: Hi Yannick, please introduce yourself…. Yannick Bouchard: Well, I'm 29 years old, and I have been a full-time artist/freelance illustrator for a year now. As probably most artists, I've always drawn since as far back as I can remember, and even at a very early age, I've always knew that I...

Step 9: Completion
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on 16th April 2012
 
The painting has finally reached completion. Quite a lot was done in the final stages, including filing in the white foam within the foam collar, and most importantly, changing the dimensions of the work. I knew from the outset that I might want to make the canvas slightly more rectangular, but I wanted to see how far I could push the design...

Demonstration: Step 8
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on 16th April 2012
 
I've made some adjustments to the tracings of foam inside the curl of the wave, trying to simplify them somewhat. Also, I've begun filling in the foam crescent in the lower section of the painting.

Artist Focus: Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen
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on 14th April 2012
 
Interview with Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen This month our interview is with Norwegian artist Henrik Aarestad Uldalen, currently living in Oslo, Norway. He's a self-taught artist whose creative production revolves around classic figurative painting. The atmosphere in his subject matter is often presented in a dream-like state. Henrik is continuously...

Digital drawings in Virtual Reality: New Show
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on 4th April 2012
 
Martha Jane Bradford (Alizarin Goldflake in virtual reality) opened "Acquarella: After the Apocalypse (Chapters 1 & 2)" April 1 at Split Screen Installation Space in Second Life. The installation is a metamorphosis of the first half of a virtual InWorldz installation by the same name hosted by virtual art patron Jeri Rahja. In Second Life it...