Howdy Everyone As you know I have participated in both #twitterartexhibit events. My first submission was #twitterartexhibit, which benefited a library in Moss, Norway, enabling them to purchase library books for children. My first submission became part of a permanent display in the library. The second submission was cherish, which benefited a women’s crisis center [...] Read more »
cherish #TwitterArtExhibit 2012 Edition
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 [...] Read more »
Second Story Job
The painting made its public debut last night at the Scottdale Festival Artwalk. It was a chilly night to be out and about. My free coffee and Reeses were very popular. Anyway, meant to post this blog yesterday, but I didn’t get a roundtoit. In this painting I explore the darker side of the internet, [...] Read more »
RSS Feed — another social media birds painting
In this fourth installment of the Social Media Birds (working title), I have broken down the rigid lineal structure of the binary and turned it into a kind of ribbon shape. The canary flares for a landing carrying the bit of news; it fills the small canvas so much that it overflows it to some [...] Read more »
Retweet — a new painting by Jake Beckman
As I previously stated while I was working on Bird on a Wire a whole series of paintings came to me. This series is a result of my recent immersion into social media. I am a noob (a neophyte) to things like FaceBook and Twitter, but I hope to get better. I even took a [...] Read more »