What makes a client crappy? These days, you'd think any client would be welcome, especially for artists who have seen their markets dry up quicker than most "needed" commodities. For a "starving artist", any client is a good client. Right? Well, no. There are some clients that are just bad people, and they want to inflict their sorrow/curse on everyone they deal with. This is especially hard for an artist to take. Artists tend to be more emotional, more committed to their work, and much less to think that it's "Only Business, Nothing Personal" when it comes to anything related to their creations.
Enjoy The Full Story...21st Century Makeover for Historic Instrument
August 21st
August 20, 2009
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21st Century Makeover for Historic Instrument
CARMEL VALLEY, CA -- Artists B.E. Johnson and Joy Alyssa Day announced today the completion of a major art installation at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. After over a year of design, development and construction, Celestial Gears, a working model of our solar system was unveiled in the new Planetarium building, bringing
Enjoy The Full Story...Branching Out into Pendant Necklaces
August 12th
Recently, and from multiple sources, I've gotten urged to use our glass work in jewelry. So I did a little research online to see what type of glass jewelry was already out there. We don't particularly like doing the same thing that hoards of others are doing. We like having our work be unique. I found a lot of various necklaces, etc, but none of it really looked like
Enjoy The Full Story...Micro Planets
June 2nd
As we continue our orrery project, it is time to blow the glass planets. As the whole piece is only 6 feet in diameter, that means we have less than 3 feet to fit in 8 planets (they didn't want Pluto). To get the planets to fit, be relative scale (impossible to be "actual" scale), and not clunk into each other, the inner planets need to be fairly
Enjoy The Full Story...ACEO Rose
May 25th
I really wish I had more time to myself to paint these little watercolors. I am quite enjoying them. I think it's not only the learning a new process thing, but also that I don't have to make them look like anything. Most of our art pieces have to end up looking like something (a rocket or portrait...) or performing some function (like holding up a table). I have
Enjoy The Full Story...My First Little Gear
May 11th
I made my own gear yesterday!! I'm so proud of it I could just burst.
A little background - I'm building on orrery (model of the solar system) for the astronomy department of a college in San Mateo, CA. We've built similar things, but of course, every new project requires new skills and stuff that we've never done before. For this piece, called
Enjoy The Full Story...ACEO Watercolor Skier
May 3rd
I am trying new techniques in my watercolor paintings. The result I'm hoping for is to figure out which would be best for an upcoming children's book that I'm writing. It has a lot of flowers and bunnies and such in it, but the simplistic, very muted colors that I see in most bunny children's books just doesn't do it for me. I want vivid, rich, beautiful, so I'm trying various things with these ACEOs to see what I like best for my new book.
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