Category: Blog
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Where is Joe?
You can find him, Joe Rocco- that is, at 806 Anastasia Blvd, near Gypsy Cab Company and just a little ways from Grampa’s Music. He’s hanging out with two co-founders of The Anonymous Society of Artists. New stuff on the walls for First Friday Artwalk, December 6th. Join us for the Art Opening featuring our…
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Embracing our local art history through
a Dr. Who-style- port-hole of time into the Molly Wiley art building. This is part of Flagler College, and formerly the original artist’s studios when it was THE MOST expensive Hotel on the Southern East Coast at the height of a gilded age with the Railroad boom across Florida. Henry Flagler put Saint Augustine on-the-map…
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You just never know who you are going to meet…
so it is best to put your best face forward, remember your manners, and be cordial and engaging. This is simple advice from every Mother of any child. When you decide to just wander off into the realm of whatever you find inspiring then magical things can happen. You might meet someone…famous. You might. …
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The Anonymous Society of Artists
completes another Celtic Festival Poster for the annual event coming up next year. As a bit of history, the three of us have been designing the poster under the direction of Sherri Cunningham since 2012. In the beginning, Scott Waters managed the Lion’s share of poster work. Then we decided each of us should spear…
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Let’s get back to the idea that a picture is worth a thousand
words. Arboretum Jacksonville Florida Amelia Eldridge and Laura Mangiovi “The Art of Nature”
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Before the bicycle brand was part of Raleigh
It was called Armstrong. No relation to all the slam-journalism you will find if you look up that name now. But if you had an interest in knowing about what Armstrong meant to the cycling industry in the 1960s, you would have found a low-brow, easy single-3 speed with a Brooks saddle. The brand was…
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“Available by October 30th, Day of the Dead…”
find it at Amazon.com Cover Art by me. Murder of Crows A juvenile fiction novel by Heather Hamel, written by R. B. Hunt’s Instructional Literacy Coach. “Liam did not want to move – especially into an old, dilapidated farm house. But when Sarah, a fourteen-year-old ghost, asks him to help her solve her family’s…
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Janet Ruttenberg shows her stuff
at www.mcny.org. Today her story is in the NYTimes… http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/nyregion/the-painter-janet-ruttenberg-likens-the-sheep-meadow-to-a-cathedral.html?_r=0 Click it…and read it. Or do what I do…mooch the gently used NYTimes off the counter of your favorite coffee shop and dissect all sections in your hands. Old school is still cool. Embrace the relaxed stance of contrapossto with arms out-stretched like wingtips holding…
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The sound of Zombie noises and grey brains is a mainstream
visual for most promo these days. So when my coworker tells her 5 year old in a very affectionate tone ” I love your brains” (she’s not a zombie fan) my over-active imagination spins on the moment, making a visual image of what one might call Dark Hallmark. Think SWAK kisses on the cold forehead…
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Overcast days are the best days for
getting out with fellow artists and doing a Plein Air session. This morning there were three of us gathered off Shore Drive: Jim Christley (P.A.S.T.A. gallery), Michael Frank Clark (@anonartists) and myself. We each picked a view to capture. Michael and I grabbed the same vantage point we had the previous week. Not only for…