Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Software Products | MyMemories Digital Scrapbooking
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Got Crawfish Decals by Fig Street Studio
I have many crawfish designs on different size stickers see link:
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Another Artist Reviews My Art
Recently via Twitter I meet up with another artist who does his art blog using video. He selects artists to to review and I was lucky enough to make a mention in his blog. Thanks @ComputerArtMan, aka Jeff Mueller, Digital Artist. He recently visited New Orleans and could feel the city through my art.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Paddle Faster Skeleton Canoe 2 T Shirts from Bluecat Canoes
Paddle Faster Skeleton Canoe 2 T Shirts from Bluecat Canoes
I canoe and for a number of years did canoe tours in the Honey Island Swamp in Pearl River, LA. I have art and designs of my canoeing the swamps. Here is "Paddle Faster" with a banjo on shirts, posters, cards and more.
Paddle Faster Skeleton Canoe 2 by figstreetstudio
I have a bunch of "canoe" shirts at this link on Cafe Press too-http://www.cafepress.com/figstreetstudio/4358103
Paddle Faster Skeleton Canoe 2 by figstreetstudio
I have a bunch of "canoe" shirts at this link on Cafe Press too-http://www.cafepress.com/figstreetstudio/4358103
Monday, August 22, 2011
Queen of Cards Abstract from Mid City Art Studio
Queen of Cards Abstract Print from Mid City Art Studio
Yes, I do abstracts. Most are Homage to Picasso, Matisse and others. A few are just unique personal colorful designs I did.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Mid City Art Studio of JK Schwehm Artist
Although our old Fig Street Guest House closed due to Hurricane Katrina I have now begun to open a Mid City Art Studio on N. Solomon St off Canal right on the Streetcar line. I use the "studio" to stay overnight in New Orleans when I have to be in New Orleans for weddings, art, or business. It serves as a New Orleans office, wedding chapel and I am able to sub-let it to people as a corporate rental when I travel away from New Orleans. For the details on when the "Mid-City Art Studio" is available e-mail me or telephone me, email is MidCityStudio@figstreet.com, phone is 504/617-6359. Close to Jazz Fest, City Park, and streetcar ride to French Quarter. Reasonable rates for corporate style rental with all that is needed for a week or weekend stay in New Orleans JK Schwehm Mid City Art Studio Here is some info on Google Local with a map- Google Local Map of Mid City Studio (and wedding place)
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
How Van Gogh Influences My Art
Art comes from inside through inspiration. As a friend and I discussed "mood" plays a part in my ability to paint. Like music and candles on a romantic evening. Or the sound of rain falling softly on a tin roof during a spring rain shower. The smell of coffee in the morning. Poetry always inspires. For me to get the artistic juices moving on all art projects I need "mood". I visit museums, read books, view art, read poems, play music. One of the best sources are the colorful paintings of Vincent Van Gogh. I have several books of his art and other "Post-Impressionists". After reading and looking through them I then get inspired and use what I learned to paint something of my life, growing up or living now. Places, people, things that have affected me in some way. Hopefully the "mood" that I set comes through in the painting and then affects the viewer. Maybe in a different way but the base of the mood is there, whether it be happy, sad, or whatever.
Take a look at a few of these images. My latest self portrait was inspired by me seeing myself in a mirror when I was dressed one day in a straw hat. It reminded me of Van Gogh yet I could not place how or what of Van Gogh was the "mood". So I did a photograph looked it over and discovered this. (See pictures for comparison.)
Compare what I did above to this Van Gogh painting of "Porträt des alten Bauers Patience Escalier, 1888, Oil on canvas.
See the influence? Yet see the differences too. At first when I saw myself in a mirror I remembered a Van Gogh self portrait of him in a straw hat so I looked in my book but the "mood' was not in that painting. Then I saw "Patients Escalier" and voila I had it and painted it. There are more moments like this in my paintings and I will have to discuss them in another blog post.
As you see this is the painting that first came to mind but it was not the correct one and expresses a different mood. My mind was aware of the similarities of a Van Gogh but consciously I thought this one when it was another deep inside. All I needed was "Patients".
Magnolia Tree At City Park Poster
by figstreetstudio
Take a look at a few of these images. My latest self portrait was inspired by me seeing myself in a mirror when I was dressed one day in a straw hat. It reminded me of Van Gogh yet I could not place how or what of Van Gogh was the "mood". So I did a photograph looked it over and discovered this. (See pictures for comparison.)
Compare what I did above to this Van Gogh painting of "Porträt des alten Bauers Patience Escalier, 1888, Oil on canvas.
See the influence? Yet see the differences too. At first when I saw myself in a mirror I remembered a Van Gogh self portrait of him in a straw hat so I looked in my book but the "mood' was not in that painting. Then I saw "Patients Escalier" and voila I had it and painted it. There are more moments like this in my paintings and I will have to discuss them in another blog post.
As you see this is the painting that first came to mind but it was not the correct one and expresses a different mood. My mind was aware of the similarities of a Van Gogh but consciously I thought this one when it was another deep inside. All I needed was "Patients".
Magnolia Tree At City Park Poster
by figstreetstudio
Saturday, August 13, 2011
West End Park, Lakeview, New Orleans
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