Creative Cogitation

In 2010 I par­tic­i­pated in the first #twit­ter­ar­tex­hibit.  It was a char­ity event set up by David San­dum and oth­ers to ben­e­fit a library in Moss Nor­way.  The funds raised from that exhibit pur­chased 221 new chil­drens books.  David San­dum got over 260 twit­ter artists from 24 dif­fer­ent coun­tries to participate.

Well David is at it again.  This year the #twit­ter­ar­tex­hibit will help fund The Women’s Cri­sis Cen­ter in Moss, where abused women and chil­dren can get help. The cen­ter also pro­vides a 24 hour phone-service, coun­sel­ing, food and shel­ter etc.

And of course David came back to the artists who help him before. I thought, “Okay, I can do that again,” but I didn’t actu­ally read his instruc­tions first.  Appar­ently David learned some things from his first event and made some changes to the for­mat. Mean­while I hap­pily crank out Heart of a woman.

heart of a woman, by Jake Beck­man. 8.5 inch x 5.5 inch acrylic paint­ing on water­color paper fea­tur­ing a goddess/woman and a glow­ing fly­ing canary

So after I fin­ished paint­ing my lovely “heart of a woman” I went to the sec­ond #twit­ter­ar­tex­hibit web­site to find the mail­ing address, and as luck would have it, I found out David had imposed size lim­its on this year’s sub­mis­sion.  She was nearly twice the size she should have been.  Of course I did ask for a rul­ing from the coor­di­na­tor and he said he really needed the post card sized limit.

(sigh) my bad.  Later on David changed his mind, but then of course “cher­ish” was nearly complete.

So “heart of a woman” is for sale …make me an offer. Ship­ping should be quite rea­son­able as she fits in a cat­a­log sized enve­lope.  She is made from qual­ity pro­fes­sional artist mate­ri­als: 140 cold press water color paper, coated with gesso on both sides, painted in Golden pro­fes­sional grade acrylic paints and var­nished with Liq­ui­tex matte var­nish.  The sub­ject mat­ter was drawn from the char­ity that she was sup­posed to ben­e­fit, but also link­ing to my binary birds social media inspired series.  The col­ors are vivid.  She already as a FAR tag 17563 attached to the back.  The cap­tion with title, copy­right & con­tact infor­ma­tion over­lay­ing the image shown here is merely a water­mark made with Pho­to­Shop; it is NOT part of the actual painting.

As for what is wing­ing its way to Moss Nor­way now?

cher­ish, acrylic paint­ing by Jake Beck­man. 4x6 inches. Image of a child hold­ing a canary in the palm of her hand

I intro­duce “cher­ish.” As much peo­ple liked my “heart of a woman” this paint­ing has also been well received.  I still drew upon the ben­e­fi­ciary of this exhibit for inspi­ra­tion, while main­tain­ing my link to social media & twit­ter via the binary birds con­nec­tion.  I think my child came out equally well. 

Yours in Art

Jake, Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

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