drawgabbydraw:

GIVEAWAY TIME!

February is draw Gabby draw!’s birthday month, and in honor of that I’m doing a giveaway. Up for grabs are the items you see above, which include an original watercolor painting and two giclee prints. Colorful!

Here’s how to enter:

1. Reblog (“likes” don’t count) this post.
2. Tweet this post. Please include @drawGdraw in your tweet so I can find it.
3. Leave a comment on this post. You could tell me what you’d like to see more of in my shop or your favorite color or whatever. Doesn’t matter! If you choose to leave a comment, be sure you’ve left a way for me to get in touch with you in case you win. Disqus should let you leave a comment using your email.

You can enter up to three times if you choose to do all of the above. The winner will be chosen at random from the reblogs, comments, and tweets on Friday, February 17. Also, a runner up will win some notecards. Have fun!

keiravaggio:

Whoopee! I finally got to read the ImagineFX magazine that I was in (March 2010 issue). I bought it online and currently reading it on Zinio. So yep, I still don’t have a hard copy. I missed it when the issue came out and I can’t find it online anymore but at least I have a soft copy now. Happy! (´▽`)

Inkling

“The Inkling digital sketch pen captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper.”

One of the latest products by Wacom, a company that specializes in producing digital pens and graphics tablets. Inkling allows the user to draw directly on paper with its ballpoint tip. Inkling converts the sketches into digital images for editing and refinement. The digital images produced by the device contains vectors and layers suitable for Photoshop, Illustrator and Sketchbook.

Source: Wacom and youtube(Wacom).

FLYER (by popazrael)

Organized by the Ayala Museum and the Japan Foundation in cooperation with the Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito in Japan, the traveling exhibition Manga Realities: Exploring the Art of Japanese Comics Today will be on view at the Ayala Museum beginning 16 August to 2 October at the Ground Floor Gallery and at the Glass Lane and Luna and Amorsolo Rooms at the Third Floor.

Manga, or Japanese comics, has international appeal for their unique and imaginative storylines and imagery, influenced by cinema, literature, history, and traditional Japanese aesthetics.

The exhibition is an experiential, three-dimensional presentation of the worlds depicted by this art form. It will feature nine manga artists and their works from the 2000s, including Tomoko Ninomiya’s Nodame Cantabile and Harold Sakuishi’s BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad, whose animated adaptations have been broadcasted locally.

Completing the list of featured works are Solanin (Asano Inio), Sugar Sugar Rune (Anno Moyoco), Children of the Sea (Igarashi Daisuke), Five Minutes from the Station (Kuramochi Fusako), Sennen-Gaho (Kyo Machiko), No. 5 (Matsumoto Taiyo), and The World God Only Knows (Wakaki Tamiki).

To deepen the viewers’ understanding and enjoyment of the exhibition, complimentary programs such as lectures, workshops, film showings, and other activities will be conducted during the exhibition run.

read more about it here and here.

Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously

Janet Echelman applied for seven art schools and got rejected by all seven. Now she’s a successful artist and her billowing, building-sized sculptures have been made permanent structures in various cities around the world. Her art is a collaboration of tradition, technology, architecture, engineering and pure innovation. Watch this ten minute video and be awed.

Learn more about her and her works here.

(Source: ted.com)

An artist at work at EDSA Magallanes for the MMDA Paint Edsa Green Project. The paints used in the mural acts as air filters thus reducing pollution in the thoroughfare. This is the first among the eight sites at Edsa where artworks will be created. 

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) launched “Project Edsa” yesterday where 10 professional Filipino and international artists were commissioned to create large-scale artworks using the world’s first paint that reduces air pollution.

Eight target sites were chosen along the 23-kilometer stretch of the metro’s busiest thoroughfare, where each artist has a free hand to convert 1,000 square meters of public space into commissioned graffiti.

 (Source: KNOxOUTpaints)