Artist Grantee Posts
The latest blog posts from the Creative Pinellas Grantees
September 27, 2020 An Appreciation
September 27, 2020 An Appreciation By Joseph Weinzettle As the Professional Artist Grant period comes to a close, it seems only fitting to leave with a plein-air work in progress. Continuing from the morning drawing that I started along the Anclote (see last week's blog 9/20/2020), here are several stages [...]
The Social Media Monster and Mental Health
The Social Media Monster and Mental Health by Erol Oz Social Media. It's that little dopamine hit every time someone likes your post. But we need it to market and network and distribute our art, right? And we have to have a TikTok because EVERYONE else has a TikTok, right? [...]
September 20, 2020 Three Projects, One Day
September 20, 2020 Three Projects, One Day By Joseph Weinzettle When my schedule and the weather line up, I'll work on three to four plein-air projects in a day. The work may be in different media, and at different stages of completion. This week, I worked on one ink wash [...]
“Photograph” by Erol Oz Song Review
"Photograph" by Erol Oz Reviewed by: Jon Wright at RadioAirplay.com Overall Impression: Erol Oz's sound is at once delicate and devastating! Blending expert acoustic picking with nostalgia-drenched overdriven electric work, Oz's original song Photograph runs the full gamut from folky to fiery - granting his clarion vocals a [...]
September 13, 2020 En Plein Air and Studio
September 13, 2020 En plein air and studio By Joseph Weinzettle For a plein-air painting or drawing most work takes place on location. However, some steps, such as adding an intermediary layer, is conducted in a studio setting. This drawing of a swamp in the East Lake-Brooker Creek area was [...]
Upcoming Release “Photograph”
Upcoming Release "Photograph" is a Testament to the Power of Collaboration and Persevering through Self-Doubt. By Erol Oz I've been sitting on the track "Photograph" for a long time. It used to be called "A Thousand Words", but I initially scrapped it. I left it off my debut EP. I [...]
Political Art 2
Political Art 2 by Carol Mickett Pablo Picasso, Guernica I’ve been thinking about Picasso’s Guernica. During the last Art Laureate Conversation (8/31/2020) which was Robert Stackhouse’s and my first conversation on Political Art, I commented about the eye-shaped light found at the top center of the painting. That [...]
Happy New Year – a Sparks Collaborative Film
September 8, 2020 BLOG #7 HAPPY NEW YEAR a Sparks Collaborative Film By PAULA KRAMER . . . Dancer Helen Hansen French with visual art by Tony Wong Palms Well, our interdisciplinary project has Sparked a wild, loop-the-loop ride through time and space and with the creative [...]
GANS and the Future of American Fiction
GANS (or generative adversarial networks) denote computerized processes that combine thousands of random pixels to create a uniquely new human face.