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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Blue Dachshund with Nude Card from Fig Street Studio

Blue Dachshund with Nude Card from Zazzle.com:

My take on Matisse Blue Nude. I added in the famous Blue Dachshund dog and the Chat Noir cat.

Blue Dachshund with Nude Card by figstreetstudio
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Blue Cat With Nude Greeting Card by figstreetstudio
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I think the Blue Dog came out the best so I put that on many items.

Blue Dachshund with Nude Dog Food Bowl by figstreetstudio
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Blue Dachshund with Nude Pillow by figstreetstudio
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Blue Nude with Silly Blue Cat by figstreetstudio
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Friday, March 18, 2011

Blue Nude Homage to Matisse on Shirts

Blue Nude After Matisse Shirt from local artist

Blue Nude After MAtisse by figstreetstudio
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Blue Mug Love by figstreetstudio
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Jazz Fest Mask 1 by figstreetstudio
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Matisse Style Nude with Fish by figstreetstudio
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Dachshund Homage To Matisse

Country Dachshund by figstreetstudio

I have always been intrigued with Henri Matisse. I visit his works whenever I am at national museums and have several books of his art, His use of colors and simple designs convey a lot of emotion and just hit me right where it counts. I also use simple designs to convey my love of my city. Symbols of things like water meter covers, lighthouse, horse heads, fleur de lis, things I have seen growing up. I try to stylize these images in colorful ways mimicking Matisse, often not realizing the effect he had on me. Some efforts look silly when I finish but I keep them around just to have a record of my attempts to make a colorful symbol reflect an emotion of something I encountered in my life experience. I am still at it today, trying to simplify an image make it colorful and then convey the emotion. The master was Henri Matisse with Picasso right behind him.
My current best selling design composition is a Dachshund Homage to Matisse. Using his window style with curtains I place a simple Picasso style dachshund under some Matisse style trees. The image is to convey seeing a dachshund out of your window in the back yard. But the composition is in its simplest forms, window, curtains, trees, dog. I have it as cards, prints, tiles and clocks. I want to portray the feeling I got as a child looking out my window at my puppy in the backyard, to me a comfortable memory. Yet keeping it simple so the youngest of person can understand it.

Country Dachshund by figstreetstudio

Friday, April 09, 2010

Summer Fauvism and Beaches

It has been some time since I stayed on the beaches so I assume my thoughts on this came from some lost memory at St. Croix. But Fauvism, Matisse, and those other guys facinate me. So here is my latest.

Sails and Beach Sunset by figstreetstudio
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Canoes and Boats by figstreetstudio
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Crawfish Still Life, Fauvism by figstreetstudio
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Abstract Faces on Fashion Shirts

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Abstract Face In Green by figstreetstudio
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Monday, June 15, 2009

Jazz Fest Horn Player Shirt

Jazz Fest Horn by figstreetstudio
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REMOVED

The Foundation claims to have trademark "Jazz Fest", which is a common phrase used for festivals all over the world. I seriously doubt it would hold up in Court. I am not rich enough to file suit. The Foundation has bullied printers, artists, and common folk with notice they will sue for use. Thus ZAZZLE removed any design with the phrase and some with just the words, Jazz and Fest separately. Thus hundreds of my long term designs are no longer for sale there and at other places. I have revised some designs. And will revise more. I think the Foundation is not considering New Orleans heritage with those actions. But the common folk cannot fight back those overly rich folks.