Limited Edition prints available of the Marcus Anderson event
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We will have these limited edition 16″ x 20″ posters for sale exclusively at Labour Love gallery for $40. These handmade prints are ready for a prominent place on your wall to commemorate this great event! $10 of the proceeds go to support the Art of Cool project. They will be for sale at the January Art of Cool event with Peter Lamb and the Wolves.
Peter Lamb with the Countdown Quintet :: NYE 2011 Casbah
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Worked over the weekend to finish up this project from the New Year’s Eve celebration at the Casbah in Durham. This is from the Countdown Quintet’s set when they called Peter Lamb up to play a rousing version on “Hole in my Bucket” that featured the three sax’s on stage taking a break! Sweeet!
Peter Lamb and Countdown Quintet at the Casbah New Year's Eve Sweet Life photo art
To see more from my “Bopscotching” tour of NYE 2011, go over the Art of Cool page here on the site or Check out my page on the Art of Cool Project blog
New San Francisco Streetcar Digital Paintings
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I have sold a lot of paintings of New Orleans streetcars and San Francisco cablecars and I really love the energy of these images. I just finished two new San Francisco streetcar images of the historic cars that run along the Embarcadero.
The first two are using my traditional approach to the painting, but the second two are using some new brushes that create a different look. Please leave comments below on your reactions to these!
San Francisco streetcar digital painting Digtial Art Sweet Life Photo 9770
San Francisco streetcar digital painting Digital Art Sweet Life Photo 9889
New Photo Gallery of the Carlitta Durand Event
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Check out my Art of Cool gallery page for a new photo gallery from the Carlitta Durand Show for the November Art of Cool Project show at Labourlove!
I am also excited to be a guest blogger on the Art of Cool Blog Page. Check out my first entry here!
Here is one of my favorite images from the evening, now go check out the rest…
Boney James After Concert Jam part II :: The Art of Cool Project
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Latest Digital Art Inspired by the Art of Cool Project part II
The Republic was jamming on Saturday night May 5th! This is the second art piece inspired by the latest Art of Cool Project event. Check out the rest of the images, I shot during the Jam Session on my Art of Cool gallery.
Boney James After Concert Jam Session :: The Republic :: Durham NC
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Latest Digital Art Inspired by the Art of Cool Project
Wow The Republic was jamming on Saturday night May 5th! This is a new art piece inspired by the latest Art of Cool Project event. Check out the rest of the images, I shot during the Jam Session on my Art of Cool gallery.
The Art of Cool Project
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Al Strong and the labourlove gallery are collaborating on a new non-profit venture called the Art of Cool Project. The Art of Cool is a jazz advocacy project showcasing high quality jazz artists in an intimate concert setting at a posh art gallery. As a member of the collective at labourlove I was introduced to Al at the first show at labourlove. That show was the impetus for the creation of the Art of Cool. As a lifelong musician and artist this project really resonates with me. I was honored when Al asked permission to use a digital painting I did of that first show at labourlove for the branding of the Art of Cool project.
As I have been thinking about it, I still wanted to do more. I have decided to offer a set of 10 images that will be available for purchase exclusively at labourlove and the profits from which will be donated to The Art of Cool Project. These images are B&W photographs of musicians, most of whom make all or a portion of their income from busking. The images are set in New Orleans, San Francisco and the Triangle. Other than Mario Abney, who has achieved a level of fame via his appearances in the HBO series Treme, none of these musicians are well-known but their love for making music drives them to continue playing for tips on the streets to make a living.
The prints are archival, hand crafted B&W images. The 5×7 images are mounted on a mat ready to go into an 8×10 frame. For each $39 print purchased, $10 will be donated to the Art of Cool project. You can buy the entire set of 10 to create an compelling gallery in your home for $350 and would generate a $100 donation.
Here are previews of a few of the images that are in this exclusive offer. Head over to labourlove gallery to check out the rest of the set.
San Francisco Emulsion Manipulation Paintings :: New Hybrid Photos
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These are from a recent trip to San Francisco. I love the iconic look of telegraph hill and coit tower. I think this first image would be very cool in a large size 20″ by 30″ or larger. I think I am going to get one of these to hang with my other stuff at labourlove in Durham.
This is a closer, vertical view of telegraph hill. I would like this one in a smaller size, I think.
I also had fun iwth the streetcars and cablecars in San Francisco. This is an image of another iconic symbol of San Francisco – the powell street cablecar.
New Emulsion Manipulation Paintings :: New Orleans Revisited
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I have been catching up with the New Orleans HBO series “Treme” lately. And it made me start thinking about some of my New Orleans images from the last two years. One of the New Orleans musicians that appears in the series is Mario Abney. I took a series of images of him busking in the Quarter and did a digital emulsion painting of him a couple of years ago. But I think those images were just too realistic for my taste and I have been wanting to revisit one of those images and finally a couple of weeks ago I did. I really like these much better!
This image was shot by Elizabeth during a shooting workshop at the PartnerCon conference in New Orleans. I start playing around with it a few days ago and really like the results. I hope our models/photographers Peter and Whitney don’t mind!
This last one I did a couple of months ago from a wedding second line I shot with about 6 photographer friends our lastnight in New Orleans this year. Thanks Chris Williams for letting us playing along!
San Francisco B&W images
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Here are a few black and white images from my trip to San Francisco. I loved walking around and chasing fireflies. Chasing fireflies is a term one of my art photography friends, Will Jacks coined for wandering around with a camera and seeing what strikes you to shoot. My early mornings and evenings were spend wandering around telegraph hill and The Embarcadero. I am working on some new paintings based on the images I shot during the week, but felt like these black and white images really fit the old world vibe of San Francisco.
Bay Bridge detail
Pier near the seal colony at the Embarcadero
Streetcars along the Embarcadero
“The Rock” Alcatraz Island
Ultimate tourist destination at Fisherman’s Wharf
Another tourist favorite, the cable cars on Powell St.
Coit tower taken from the financial district.
