Commission WIP on a flat oval mirror

I am surprised Bondi is out. She is a rabid MAGA fanatic.

Today’s ArtDrop is an aerial cityscape drawing on paper ‘Panoramic View of London’ by Stephen Wiltshire.

Does anyone know where I can find salvaged computer boards? I want to make mosaic tiles out of them. I need a lot. I'd rather not have to use CDs or DVDs because even though I will have to paint them, they will still look too cheap and flash for my liking.

2 years ago: "Oh dear, when am I ever going to use this hoard of salvaged cream-colored stained glass?" Me this morning: "Oh dear, where am I going to find enough vellum-colored scrap stained glass for this project?" Looks in basement for sorting boxes...finds dusty bank of vanilla glass. "!"

WIP. I don’t have a name for this one yet

Today’s ArtDrop is ‘Bridge no 114’ by abstract expressionist artist Nat Tate. The work was created in ink, paint, and pencil.

Today’s ArtDrop is a post-impressionist painting from 1917 by Lili Elbe. ‘An Autumn Day at Bassin de Flore in the Garden at Versailles' is an oil on canvas.

I'm putting the top layer on a stained glass mosaic over a full-dome security mirror today. It's a small one for a small works show. I might be able to enter it into the Tiffany show. It resembles one of their lamp shades minus the copper foiling between glass pieces.

New bird song. It sounds like a smoke alarm that chirps every couple of minutes due to low battery. I've heard it but not seen it yet.

Every day I wake up in an asylum run by the inmates.

Today’s ArtDrop is an oil on canvas by Luke Fildes from 1891 called ‘The Doctor’.

Today’s ArtDrop is a botanical on glass reverse painted in the verre églomisé technique. ‘Dandelion’ was painted in 2002 by Yanny Petters.

Today’s ArtDrop is a vertical French lithograph advertising poster from 1894 by Alfonse Mucha promoting a theatrical production, ‘Gismonda,’ starring Sarah Bernhardt.

Today’s ArtDrop is an installation from the series ‘The Purple Shall Govern’ by Mary Sibande. The work pictured here was created in 2013 with textiles, mannequin, and purple theatrical lights.

Today’s ArtDrop is a pop art interactive sculpture called, ‘Childhood Express’. Ken Spiering constructed the giant red wagon in 1990 to double as a slide in a public park in Spokane, WA.

Today’s ArtDrop is 'Portrait of Journalist Sylvia von Harden’, an oil and tempera on panel, by Otto Dix from 1926.

Today’s ArtDrop is a Roman floor mosaic called ‘Cave Canem’ or ‘Beward of Dog' from The House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii circa 2nd century BC.

Stencil o’clock

Today’s ArtDrop is an impressionist painting called ‘Ambiance du soir’ from 1893 by Frits Thaulow.

Today’s ArtDrop is an ephemeral organic sculpture installation called ‘Paper Landscape Series’ by Spencer Byles from 2016. The image is a photograph from the artist’s project blog by photographer Leo Fvy.

"Your Rainbow Panorama" (2011) by #Danish - #Icelandic artist #OlafurEliasson; a permanent 150-meter colorful circular installation you can walk through on the roof of the #ARoS #art #museum in Aarhus, Denmark. #Architecture #Modern #Contemporary #design

I need to start wearing a blue bandana.

Today’s ArtDrop is a classically themed tempera on panel ‘Primavera’ by Sandro Botticelli dated circa 1475ish.

Slide presentations are a lot easier than just talks. It's a lot easier to riff naturally on a slide, click forward, and be back on track. I have to print a whole script for a talk so I don't glitch out worse than Mitch McConnell.

Adobe Acrobat pisses me off every time it says, "This is a long document. Allow Acrobat to summarize this thing you just wrote all by yourself to save time." Adobe Asshat more like.

Today’s ArtDrop is an oil on paperboard abstract painting dated August 31, 1957 by outsider visionary artist Eugene von Bruenchenhein.

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New Museum press preview. Aerobe flying over Extreme Maquette!

Today’s ArtDrop is ‘Moebius Ship’ by Tim Hawkinson from 2006. This sculpture was made with common materials: wood, plastic, Plexiglas, rope, staples, string, twist ties, and glue. The work, inspired by Moby Dick, is a criticism of dangerously obsessive and overconfident leadership.

How can I be so old?

Portland pothole artists are seriously my favorite people. If you know one or are one and would be willing to talk about your craft, please DM

Today’s ArtDrop is a carpet page from the Book of Kells made circa 800 A. D. by Scottish/Irish monks. The book is a manuscript on vellum illuminated in inks and gold. This page features lavish abstract Celtic interlaced patterns within a symmetrical geometric design.

I am not in their district, but I'm interested to see what happens in the @katmabu.bsky.social vs @danielbiss.bsky.social race. They're both great.

Awful. The UK is suffering a terrible outbreak of very infectious meningitis associated with a university. They're on it, though. 30,000 people are getting prophylactic treatment.

Today’s ArtDrop is a chair designed by Fernando and Humberto Campana called ‘Panda Banquette’. The chair, made from scores of panda plushies, was introduced in 2007.

Today’s ArtDrop is a contemporary mask assemblage of used women’s shoes by Willie Cole titled ‘Street Dragon 1’. It is part of a series you can view at the artist’s website here: www.williecole.com/masks-1

The word of the day is Pizzabeans. Can't wait to try it.

Today’s ArtDrop is a drawing ‘The Power of pi’ by Jason Padgett from 2009. After a violent mugging causing brain damage, he began suffering from PTSD and acquired a savant-level aptitude for mathematics. Drawing images about his new insights helped to mitigate his suffering.

Today’s ArtDrop is ‘The Good Samaritan’ by Symbolist artist George Frederic Watts. The oil on canvas was painted sometime between 1849 and 1904. ArtDrops' editor is wary of the resemblance of these figures to the work of the famous forger Han van Meegeren.

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Every prompt is a leading question...

Today’s ArtDrop is a marble copy of a first century Greek bronze sculpture of the 'Head of Socrates.’ The original bronze was thought to be by Lysippus.

I think I may go seek a copy of Moby Dick.

Today’s ArtDrop is a functioning toilet cast in gold by Maurizio Cattelan from 2014. He called it ‘America’. It is a piece of participatory art because exhibit goers are encouraged to use the facilities. The first copy was stolen. The second sold to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not corporation.

I washed all of this scrap stained glass for a commission last night. Now it gets leaves stenciled on it, then cut, run through the grinder. Then washed again before assembling it on the piece.

Guys. The Evanston Art Center has a call for art out for stained glass pieces to display along with Tiffany pieces. I'm so there.

I love curry. I cook it often. Today is the day I try a recipe for one of those curry blocks and I'm so excited.

Today’s ArtDrop is Andy Warhol’s series of 32 acrylic & enamel paint on canvas ‘Campbell’s Soup Cans’ from 1962.