Artist’s Corner

Professional site:

Little Weaver’s: A LookLookAir Production (under rehaul and construction, bear with me as changes happen)

Mexalapotis on deviantART- You can get prints here.  Relatively new, so right now it only has photo work on it.

My Other Blog:

Little Weaver’s Home of Insanity

Helpful Sites For The Full Time Artist

TALA-Texas Accountants and Lawyer For The Arts.  This site provides legal and accounting services for artists in Texas, pro bono, and a membership is VERY affordable (between 50 and 75 dollars for a single person).

VLA- Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts provides services for every art discipline, including acting, animation, architecture, book making, choreography, composition, three-dimensional design, costume design, craft and folk arts, dance, directing, fashion, film, graphic design, installation art, literary arts, modeling, multi-media, music, photography, playwriting, poetry, printmaking, screenwriting, sculpture, songwriting, theater, video arts, video game design, visual arts, and web design”.  It looks like it is for everyone, but check them out to make sure there isn’t a specific location for your state.

U.S. Copyright Office-this site tells you a bit about copyright law, how to register your art, and even has an online link so that you can do it from the comfort of your own home.

Forums

SketchCrawl-for talking with other artists and setting up public drawing marathons.

For All Your Supply Needs:

Cheap Joe’s-really great discounts for painting and drawing supplies

Daniel Smith- especially great for frames and mineral pigments, but a little more pricey than Joe’s.

Utrecht Art-great for oils and canvas.

Flax-phenomenal art store in San Francisco.  Wish there were one here..

Handmade Paper Superstore-more for scrap booking unless you know what you are looking for.

Twinrocker Handmade Paper-handmade paper, very nice quality.  They have all types from card stock and thicker papers that you can paint on to thinner papers for scrap books or collage projects.

Poetic Earth Handmade Journals-wonderful handmade journals with cotton paper and leather covers, with art by Courtney Davis.

Art Sites Of Fantastic Artists:

Rob Erdle-my watercolor teacher and mentor

Millie Giles-my beginning watercolor teacher, who taught me all the basics.

The Inside-BJ’s site for his art.  Lots of very nice gargoyle sketches, drawings, paintings, and Photoshop work.  Go see.

MasterDarhil- BJ’s new site for all of his new and current art.  To view any of his older stuff, see The Inside at the link above.

Shadowscapes-the art of Stephanie Law.  She is one of my favorite watercolorists and her art has wonderful details.

Midnight Ramblings-the blog for Stephanie Law, the artist of Shadowscapes.

The Art of Dave McKean- the art of Dave McKean.  Kind of self explanatory.  He is responsible for the wonderful art (and direction) in MirrorMask, amongst other things.  I love his work.

Neil Gaiman-writer, artist, if you don’t know who he is, you should.  Great stuff.

Liquid Sculpture- the art of Martin Waugh.  He does photography of liquid drops and is really phenomenal.

Blog Of Martin Waugh- techniques, materials, and bloggy type stuff from the artist of Liquid Sculpture.

Dragon Wings-hand made fantasy marionettes that are fabulous.  I have one of their bats.

Skull-A-Day-pretty self explanatory, but really neat.  Go check it out.

Vox Mortuum- hand made Ozchilde dolls (crocheted dolls) that are fantastic.

K. N. Sangra-photography, drawings, hand-made dresses, and more!  Nice blog with great work.

Francesca Crescentini-monster and dark ladies.  Love love LOVE her work.

Paper Unlimited-very nicely done folded paper art.

Madalina Iordache-Levay: Fine Art-beautiful surreal photography.

Hill’s Native Art-art gallery with Northwest Coast art.

Jean Kigel-Asian brush, Sumi-e, watercolor, and hand-pulled prints.  I absolutely love the fish.

The Art Of M.W. Kaluta-Self explanatory.  Book covers, comics, commissions etc.  Good work.

Nick Brandt-a wonderful photographer who has simply stunning pieces of animals in Africa.

Daniel Riedel Photo- beautiful work, but it is a bit edgy and not for everyone.  I think there are some wonderful pieces here.

Art History and Painting References:

Caravaggio.com

The Vincent van Gogh Gallery

The Salvador Dali Gallery