Art On Centre

So I was driving home from work one day last September and I always saw this house with these huge and I mean huge beautiful yellow flowers out front that are amazing.  I saw the older lady that lives there outside for the first time so I stopped. I asked her what kind of flowers they were.  In a really thick Greek accent she said they were Dahlias  that she brought over from he home in Greece many,many years ago. I told her they were the most beautiful flowers ever.   Mind you they are the size of a dinner plate.  Well she said "please wait" to me and she went around back of he house ad handed me a bag and it looked like a bag of 10 dirty potatoes.  She said you can have some. I was ecstatic! Now I am going to have these gorgeous flowers in my yard? She said " keep them in the basement in a dark place until spring then plant them root down."  So I shard half with my sister in-law and now I am starting to see the flowers come...

There is so much new technology out there today that I often see articles and have conversations about book and newspapers disappearing. I don't know about you, but I could not part with my books.  My records, tapes, cds, yes maybe but my books I cannot imagine not having.   The feel of a book in your hand, there is nothing like it. See the thing is if we lose books we also lose the artwork too to some degree.  There is something about actually having the artwork rather than just looking at it on a screen. With Itunes we lost the art work on the cds or for us oldies, album cover art.  I can't tell you how many framed album covers I have there are some really beautiful covers out there and I am sure some of us remember them and they bring back memories of where we were in our lives when they came out .  So unless you are a collector you do not even get to own the artwork on the cover anymore.  Yes, you can see it on ...

There are so many places in Jamaica Plain you can take an art class this summer and all year round. So if you have been thing about learning how to weld, woodworking, throw clay, jewelry and many other classes give them a call for there schedule or check out their website here for classes. Welcome To Stonybrook Fine Arts School Welding Class Clay and Jewelry Class 

One of my favorite artists , she designs for Marimekko is a Finnish company based in Helsinki that has made important contributions to fashion , especially in the 1960s and 1970s. They are particularly noted for brightly-colored printed fabrics and simple styles, used both in women's garments and in home furnishings. Check out some of her work here on her website Sanna Annukka

Yulia Brodskaya does illustration, graphic design and papergraphic art. Here are some amazing samples of the beautiful typographical creations she makes with paper. I cannot stop looking at her work! My student's cannot believe its made from paper. here are some examples I CANNOT STOP LOOKING AT HER WORK HOW AMAZING DO YOU THIK SHE WOULD VISTI MY CLASSROOM?

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I believe it 

I found this old color wheel and I thought it was so beautiful I had to post it for all of us artists.  I am not sure where I found it or what year it is from but it is so perfect.