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6. Lines and Colors
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7. Superhero Journal
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8. Claudine Hellmuth
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10. Creative Every Day
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12. iHanna’s Creative Space
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13. Making a Mark
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14. See It. Draw It. Share It.
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15. rue Manuel bis
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16. DouDy Sketche
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17. Photography by KML
Authority: 120 Rank: 48,166
18. DaniDraws.com - In-depth illustration tutorials, tips, and video demos
Authority: 119 Rank: 48,680
18. Aerten Art
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19. Carol Marine's Painting a Day
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20. Musings on Photography
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Authority: 111 Rank: 53,379
22. Peripheral Vision - Inner Sights by Lynda Lehmann
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33. Imagination of Francis Vallejo
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37. California Painter William Wray
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38. Cosmic Photo Art
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46. Trish Bee’s Art-Venture
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48. The Illustrated Garden
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52. Travel Sketching, Illustrated Journals and Sketchbooks : Trumpetvine
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56. Paintings in Oil
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58. Painting a Day - Fine Art Watercolor Paintings
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59. ANITA DAVIES
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60. Potter's Blog
Authority: 37 Rank: 183,265
60. Jelaine Faunce Studio
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Authority: 36 Rank: 188,410
61. Pollocksthebollocks’s Weblog
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62. Up All Night Again
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62. Teri's Painted Daisies
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63. Resonant Enigma
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63. Debbie Overton Designs
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63. Non Linear Arts
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64. Sacred Circle Mandalas
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82. Blank Canvas
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82. Jo Castillo Art Blog
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82. Lori's Stormy Art and Daily Paintings
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82. Deborah Paris - A Painting Life
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82. ArtsSpot - Original and Unique Drawings and Paintings
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82. pinkie style : the photos
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82. Darla Dixon - Fine Art Portraits Drawn from Photos
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83. M.E. BAILEY ART
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83. ~The Art of Life~
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83. Painting Each Day
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83. Holycarpet
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83. The Painting a Day Project
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83. Daily Paintings by Ria Hills
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84. Travels with a Sketchbook in.......
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84. Postcard from Puniho
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84. Texas Painter Leslie Sealey
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85. Stop and Draw the Roses
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86. Jeannette's Illustration Sketchblog
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86. Fiji Island Mermaid Press
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86. Pastel and Paint: Lesly Finn's Art
Authority: 11 Rank: 854,202
86. Chris Bolmeier Art
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86. Painting Small Impressions
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86. Time Passages
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86. The Morning Artist
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87. RedHead Art
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87. THE BIRD PROOFER
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87. Works of Many Colors
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87. SKETCH OF THE DAY
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88. Dust Off the Butterfly
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88. Dordogne Painting Days
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88. cmv: an artist's log
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89. Paint Dance
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89. Art & Life
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89. Bearded Bunny Blog
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89. Daily Miniature Paintings
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89.THEDIRTYGROUND.COM
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89. Arkady Roytman's Nude of the Day
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89. Art & Observations
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89. aRt De Me
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89. The Itinerant Artist
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89. The Zen-Images Ikebana Blog
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90. Indigo Blah
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90. kitty art
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90. Cordelia's Art Place
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90. fiberstudio
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90. Angela's Art
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90. Wax Art
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90. The Creative Butterfly
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90. Sue Beyer :: Artist
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90. Paintings From Maine
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91. Studio McCann
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91. Liz Patterson Art Journal
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91. Wendy Prior Fine Art
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91. The Artist's Studio
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91. Morrgan's Creatures
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91. Moskovitz Art Studio
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91. Les dessins de Daniel
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91. Studies and Sketches
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91. NZ Art - Elizabeth Love
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91. am-art
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91. Elusive Hues
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91. foothills & highlands
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91. Matthew Carter - Portraits
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91. Z. Thurmond Studio
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92. Southern Plein Air Painters
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92. A PAINTING A DAY - SMALL DAILY PAINTINGS BY DAVID MORESCHI
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92. Simon Collins - Life Drawing/Painting
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92. Oil Painting Studies by Dennis Albertson
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92. Rowan Dodds Illustration
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92. My Beach Days
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92. She Sure is Sketchy
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92. PAUL KEYSAR
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92. Third Moon
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93. Bittersweat~
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93. Angie Reed Garner
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Win the Ultimate Blogging Package by Suggesting a New Feature for Blogger

In celebration of Blogger Buster's first birthday, Amanda is running the first ever site competition where you could win the ultimate blogging package by taking part in a community project!
The Blogger Team are constantly developing new features for us to use. While we could make use of the Blogger wishlist to vote for the features we'd most like to use, there is much to be said for the value of raising awareness through our blogs!
What better incentive to post about the features we most desire from Blogger than the chance to win the ultimate blogging package..?
To enter Amanda's competition and participate in a community project, please read the original competition post and ensure you validate your entry!
My feature for the wish list would be to have CommentLuv for Blogger...that way I can see what my visitors are posting about and also be able to return some link love...

Win a Custom Blog Template for your Blog!

Enter and win a custom blogger template of your choice. Please note the template is for Blogger only. The prize includes a matching 125×125 entrecard/ad button. Agi's competition will run for 1 week and the winner will be announced on Sunday, June 29th.

Lighthouse Restoration Initiative Election

Debbie Dolphin @ New England Lighthouse Treasures is promoting this competition:
JELD-WEN windows and doors has selected twelve lighthouses from a field of 49 nominees as the final candidates to be voted for in electing one(?) lighthouse to win new JELD-WEN windows and doors.
Pop over to Debbie's blog to review the following twelve Lighthouse candidates and vote for one lighthouse on or before September 7, 2008.

Awards Gala


Mariuca @ Mariuca is having an Awards Gala! and I have been a lucky recipient !!! thank you so much Mariuca...
I have chosen the following awards to pass on :



Friendship Award

I'm passing Bokjae's Friendship Award on to the very sophisticated, globetrotting Miss Moneypenny



Cool Cat Award

I'm passing Catsy's Cool Cat Award on to a very cool cat... Speedy





Friendly Blogger Award

and I'm passing Nessa's Friendly Blogger Award to the very chic and sporty Diane



Bloggers Excellence Award


I've also been awarded this Excellence Award from SueEllen
@ Fine Artworks and Original Paintings From A Creaky Easel who received this from Mandy
..thanks so much Sue Ellen!!!





Entrecard news....
look who was # 1 !!!
in the Art Category
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Planning for a Contest? Think Entrecard!
Here’s an article containing a step-by-step procedure with detailed discussions, tips, rants and of course, personal notes for setting up one unconventional contest that would surely rock your blog- Entrecard contests here we go!

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What Famous Work of Art Are You?

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Composition with Red, Blue, Yellow

By Piet Mondrian

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"Insane Art" - Artistic Genius or Insanity?

20 June 2008 31 comments

"The art of the mentally ill is currently the focus of great interest. There have been numerous books on the subject, the emergence of specialized journals, international exhibitions, and the sale of work at ever-increasing prices. The creations of mentally ill patients have been given various names, such as ‘outsider art’, ‘psychotic art’, ‘art brut’ and ‘art extraordinary’. The area has attracted psychiatrists, artists and historians."
A disquieting feeling of strangeness?: the art of the mentally ill
Allan Beveridge, MPhil FRCPsych




Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933), who as an art historian and doctor was versed in both fields, is regarded nowadays as having pioneered an interdisciplinary approach. He was interested in questions of cultural anthropology, such as the origins of the artistic impulse, or the "schizophrenic sense of existence" he witnessed in contemporary Expressionist art. And he hoped to gain direct, primal insight into these questions through the patients' works. During the years after the First World War, he built up with the support of Karl Wilmanns, the head of the Psychiatric Department in Heidelberg, a unique collection of works from psychiatric hospitals. His richly illustrated book The Artistry of the Mentally Ill (Berlin 1922) not only documented the collection, but partly interpreted it and contextualised it through a critical examination of the prevailing culture. Here he departed once and for all from any questions about the relevance of the works for diagnostics. Instead, he emphasised that all of these creative phenomena are equally valid in psychological terms, and that some have recognisably artistic quality - thus allowing this disparaged "insane art" and its creators to be given a positive re-evaluation. Prinzhorn's great achievement was, in effect, to open up the blinkered viewpoint of psychiatry to include the realms of both art and art history. This was a courageous step which, in the long term, helped the patients' creative production receive its just acclaim and to promote a reintegration of the patients into society.[More]

Adolf Wölfli
Adolf Wölfli (1864 - 1930) (occasionally spelled Adolf Woelfli or Adolf Wolfli) was a prolific Swiss artist who is regarded as one of the foremost artists in the Art Brut or outsider art traditions.
Wölfli was abused both physically and sexually as a child, and was orphaned at the age of 10; He thereafter grew up in a series of state-run foster homes. He worked as a farm labourer and briefly joined the army, but was later convicted of attempted child molestation, for which he served prison time. Sometime after being freed, he was arrested for a similar offence and was admitted in 1895 to the Waldau Clinic in Berne, Switzerland, a psychiatric hospital where he spent the rest of his adult life. He was very disturbed and sometimes violent on admission, leading to him being kept in isolation for his early time at hospital. He suffered from psychosis, which led to intense hallucinations.

August Natterer
August Natterer (1868 - 1933), also known as Neter, was a schizophrenic German outsider artist.
August Natterer, given the pseudonym Neter by his psychiatrist to protect him and his family from the immense social stigma associated with mental illness at the time, was born in 1868 in Schornreute, near Ravensburg, Germany, the son of a clerk and the youngest of nine children. Natterer studied engineering, got married, traveled widely, and had a successful career as an electrician but was suddenly stricken with delusions and anxiety attacks. On April Fool's Day, 1907 he had a pivotal hallucination of the Last Judgment during which "10,000 images flashed by in half an hour." He described it as follows: "I saw a white spot in the clouds absolutely close – all the clouds paused – then the white spot departed and stood all the time like a board in the sky. On the same board or the screen or stage now images as quick as a flash followed each other, about 10,000 in half an hour… God himself occurred, the witch, who created the world – in between worldly visions: images of war, continents, memorials, castles, beautiful castles, just the glory of the world – but all of this to see in supernal images. They were at least twenty meters big, clear to observe, almost without color like photographs… The images were epiphanies of the Last Judgment. Christ couldn't fulfill the salvation because he was crucified early... God revealed them to me to accomplish the salvation."
This ordeal led to a suicide attempt and committal to the first of what would be several mental asylums occupied during the remaining twenty-six years of his life. Natterer thereafter maintained that he was the illegitimate child of Emperor Napoleon I and "Redeemer of the World." The vision had inspired an intense production of drawings, all documenting images and ideas seen in the vision. Because of the intense and psychotic imagery, Netterer's work is more often studied scientifically than artistically. He died in 1933 in an asylum near Rottweil.

Karl Brendel
Karl Brendel (1871-1925) was a schizophrenic outsider artist and one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1923, in German; English edition 1972). He was the only sculptor profiled in Prinzhorn's work, and the work also includes more illustrations of his work (twenty-four sculptures and eight drawings) than that of any other profiled artist.
Brendel was born in central Germany, the son of a freight transporter and one of eight children, attending school through the age of 14 and becoming employed variously as a bricklayer, plasterer, and moulder in an iron foundry. He married a widow with three children in 1895 and had two children of his own with her. However, from 1892 on Brendel was sentenced 12 times for assault and battery and property damage, and had to serve a prison term in 1902, at which point his marriage ended. His left leg was injured in an accident in 1900, and later amputated.
The first records of his mental illness come from 1906, when the prison doctor noticed megalomaniacal delusions and abnormal physical sensations; Brendel claimed that he has already experienced a sacrificial death, and that he was Jesus Christ. He was admitted to the Eickelborn asylum, near Lippstadt, in 1907.

Louis Wain
Any history or anthology of the National Cat Club would be incomplete without the "Winking Cat" or the National Logo - both designed by one of the National's Founder members, the renowned artist and illustrator Louis Wain. His contributions to the foundations of this great club were immense and his talented paintings, sketches, drawings and cartoons of cats must have played a major part in popularising the cat.
It was so tragic, therefore, when in 1925 he was discovered to be living in a pauper lunatic asylum.
An appeal was launched by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton in the September, 1925, issue of the magazine ANIMALS. This produced an immediate response from the public. In her appeal, Mrs. Chesterton wrote, "For years Louis Wain's cats decorated our hoardings, adorned the covers of magazines and were familiarly loved by every child and the majority of grown-ups. No Christmas Calendar was complete without this artist, no annual was issued that did not contain one of his vivid sketches. And yet, at the age of 65, he is so bereft of means that in his affliction he is compelled to accept the hospitality of a State institution ..............."
"Louis Wain was not one of those men who take no thought for the morrow. His history is one of the tragedies which rouse our deepest feelings of commiseration. For years he made a fair income but, with a lack of business acumen, so often allied to genius, when he sold his drawings he parted with them outright, thus receiving no payment when they were reproduced over and over, again .............."
"Though he was a prolific worker, the war (1914-1918) put an end to his means of livelihood as public demand changed in favour of khaki as against cats. Such publications as were still devoted to Louis Wain reproduced those of his drawings which had already been paid for."
"By this means Louis Wain's resources dwindled and though for a time he made a little money by cinema cartoons, he gradually found himself penniless and without employment. A period of intense privation, added to the mental strain and bewilderment at finding himself in such a position, precipitated a breakdown. In 1923 he was admitted as a pauper to the asylum where he has been ever since."
"Louis Wain is not a violent lunatic. He is now what he has always been - gentle, unassuming, humorous and able at times to use his pencil and reproduce his beloved cats. But there are periods of darkness when he knows no one. At such periods one feels acutely that he should have everything that money can provide."
Richard Dadd
1817-1886
Richard Dadd's work lives on. Even during his lifetime, the Victorian public were interested in him, and there were several popular exhibitions of his work. In our century, Dadd has come back into the public eye. The rock band Queen had a song on their second album titled "Fairy Feller's Master Stroke", and there are dozens of other contemporary examples, including author Neal Gaiman, who cites him as an inspiration.
Would we have remembered Richard Dadd, had he not gone insane and murdered his father? Most likely not. Like the Marquis de Sade, who spent the final years of his life in an asylum, the institution allowed him to explore his internalized passions to their fullest. In the institution, Dadd, had no models to work from, only his memories. The painted world became the real one, much like the Marquis with his writings. It was truly his insanity, not for the notoriety it gave him, but the intensity of focus it allowed, that made him great.

Lemuel Francis Abbot
Portrait of Admiral Robert Calder by Lemuel Francis Abbott, painted 1797
Lemuel Francis Abbot (c. 1760–5 December 1802) was an English portrait painter, famous for his portrait of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (currently hanging in the Terracotta Room of number 10 Downing Street) and for those of other naval officers and literary figures of the 18th century.
Born in Leicestershire in 1760 or 1761, to the clergyman Lemuel Abbott and his wife Mary, he became in 1775 a pupil of Francis Hayman and lived in London.
Although he exhibited at the Royal Academy, Abbott never became an Academician. He became insane when he was about 40 and was attended by Dr Thomas Munro (1759–1833), the chief physician to Bethlem Hospital and a specialist in mental disorders. Munro also treated the insanity of King George III (1738–1820). Abbott died in London on 5 December 1802.

Charles Altamont Doyle
Charles Altamont Doyle, (1888)Charles Altamont Doyle (1832 – 1893) was a Victorian artist. He was the brother of the artist Richard Doyle, and the son of the artist John Doyle. Although the family was Irish, Doyle was born and raised in England.
In 1849 he moved to Edinburgh where he met Mary Foley. They were married, and their children included Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Doyle was not as successful an artist as he wished, and suffered depression and alcoholism. His paintings, which were generally of fairies or similar fantasy scenes, reflected this, becoming more macabre over time.
In 1881 Doyle was committed to a nursing home specialising in alcoholism. While there, his depression grew worse, and he began suffering epileptic seizures. Following a violent escape attempt he was sent to Sunnyside, Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum, where he continued to paint. He died in Crighton Royal Institution in 1893.
An edition of A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle was published in 1888, with illustrations by Charles Doyle.

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August Natterer
Karl Brendel
Lemuel Francis Abbott
Charles Altamont Doyle

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Picasso painting to sell at auction today !!!

18 June 2008 22 comments

A Picasso painting is expected to break Australian sales records when it goes under the hammer in Sydney today.

The masterpiece, Sylvette 1954, will be auctioned by Deutscher-Menzies at its fine art sale.
Deutscher-Menzies national head of art Tim Abdullah said the work was expected to sell for between $A5 million and $A7 million, with the whole auction catalogue potentially taking as much as $A13.8 million.
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Update: Picasso painting breaks Australia art sale record
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An abstract portrait by Pablo Picasso on Wednesday smashed the record for an artwork sold in Australia, netting A$6.9 million (3.1 million pounds) at an auction in Sydney.
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Sydney Women Bloggers' Meet for chocolate, chat and coffee.
Leigh @ All For Women has organised the get together for the 29th June 2008.
Where:
Max Brenner’s Cafe
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Dancer Cyd Charisse dies at 86
ACTRESS and dancer Cyd Charisse, the impossibly long-legged movie musical star who gained fame for her on-screen pairings with Hollywood dance greats Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, has died at 86.
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Winner of the Random Draw is Eric S. @ CHIHUATUDE


Congratulations Eric !!! I will be sending you 1,000 ECS today.


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Swimming with Sharks

11 June 2008 70 comments

Win 1,0000 ECs !!!!
WOULD YOU JUMP IN A TANK WITH SHARKS ??

Leave a comment to go in the random draw!!!




My son Alexander and his girlfriend Kelly stayed in Sydney last week...
they were celebrating their 12 month anniversary...
while they were there they visited the Sydney Opera House and Taronga Park Zoo as well as finding the time to jump into a tank with sharks at Oceanworld Manly !!!
Here are some of the terrific photos that they took....




Unfortunately they had rainy weather but they still managed to take some great shots...
they are both considering photography as a career....



all images © Copyright Alexander Barker & Kelly Steele

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STATE OF ORIGIN 2008 – GAME TWO
SUNCORP STADIUM, BRISBANE – WEDNESDAY JUNE 11TH.
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Persistence and determination....

10 June 2008 17 comments



“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”


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About The Author
Kim Barker is a Visual Artist (Diploma in Art and Graduate Diploma in Education). She is also a fully trained Reading Recovery Teacher. She has taught RAD (Royal Academy of Dancing) and Cecchetti Ballet Syllabii. Kim also manages the Top Artist' Directory and PoeARTica as well as her blog laketrees She lives with her family on the Eastern Central Coast of Australia. Follow Kim at laketrees on Twitter for updates and news