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Art History - Interview with pica-ae:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations:
As part of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some of the Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART Community Volunteers

Today it's the adorable ^pica-ae, your Community Volunteer for Text & Typography
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Hi ^pica-ae, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art.
- Hi! I am a web designer form Hamburg, Germany. In my spare time I have always enjoyed doing any kind of art. When I was smaller I started with Watercolors and moved on to Oil, before I went to design school and focused mostly on digital art.
My style… I am not sure I found it yet. Well, I am always looking for it, tho! I see finding one's style as a constant struggle. In my works you can find lots of bright colors, very often things are kept simple, minimal maybe in content or simple in composition. Mostly I try to keep away from

Art History - Trad Art Month:iconcommunityrelations: :iconarthistoryproject:

The #communityrelations Team bring you ART HISTORY -
A series of articles about the entire History of Art.

WHAT IS IT?
Your #communityrelations Volunteers look after your Galleries and the Messaging&Chat Network. For more information about the CR Team have a look here ---> http://communityrelations.deviantart.com/blog/27409506/#B
Our amazing team of CV’s have shown you through #projecteducate what happens in the various genres, now #ArtHistoryProject will show you where this Art came from.
Every month we will focus on an area of Art and bring it to YOU.
Kicking off in July with Traditional Art!

WHAT WE WILL BE SHOWCASING
Articles and Features that cover a period

Graphics Month - August:iconcommunityrelations: :iconarthistoryproject:

From Traditional to Graphic

So July was the month of Traditional Art. We saw work on Illustration, Dali and Surrealism, John Blake, Giger and much more.
For the full Archive please check out our Traditional Gallery here.
August is now our Graphics Month. This is a culmination of mediums, including - Comics & Cartoons, Anthro, Fan Art and Anime/Manga
Without much ado, here are your Community Volunteers for these Galleries...

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`kit-y -

Anime & Manga

:iconKasumiCR:
^KasumiCR -

Fan Art

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^KovoWolf -

Photography Weekly: Edition FortyPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity..."
As the year crawls into the final quarter - lots of challenges and daily photo tasks and so on begin to conclude. I have personally been challenging myself with the 365 Photography challenge - a photo a day for a whole year. It has been tricky to say the least, especially as I set myself a high standard of capturing more than one Photo a day - but also rewarding. Setting yourself a challenge, whether it's following the 52 week photography challenges that are out there, or doing a themed challenge such as 365 breakfasts - is a great way of expanding on your portfolio. Whilst it sometimes means that you struggle to find anything interesting to photograph or share, on the days that you do, you're one step closer to building another aspect of your portfolio.
Next week in Photography Troubleshooting - we will be looking at Money Matters and so

Photography Weekly: Edition Thirty SevenPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
- Albert Einstein
I don't know about you, but Light Painting has to be really unique and awesome in order to impress me. So when I stumbled across the work of Darren Pearson aka Darren Twin - I was astounded at the creativity and simple methods used to create his conceptual photographic pieces. Darren creates LED pictures of Skeletons Skateboarding, dancing and living - exploring what the Mail Online has termed as the bare bones of our daily lives. And it really is precisely that. Darren takes the ordinary, the mundane and the normal of everyday life and lights it up by night by painting bones. Check it out for yourself. That prompted me to go searching for some of my favourite light painted pieces here

Art History - Interview with Salvador-rudy:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations:
As part of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some of the Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART Community Volunteers

Today it's the delightful ^SRudy
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Hi ^SRudy, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art.
Hi, I´m a surreal artist, I love drawing / painting surreal-themed artworks. Since I really like both surreal art and the classical renaissance realism, I try my best to mix them most of the time.
What is it that attracts you to Traditional Art?

What I love about traditional art is its originality, and how almost everything can be done using traditional tools...
How much do you think that the roots and origins of Art affect what we create today?
Although that art is creating and improving, I believe that we're

Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28th, 1917 in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He was a comic book artist, writer, and editor; one of the most innovative and influential creators in the history of comics.
Growing up poor in New York City, Jacob Kurtzberg entered the newly emerging comics industry in the 1930s. He drew various comics features under different pen names, finally settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby, often collaborating with Simon, created numerous characters for that company and also for the company that would become DC Comics.

Kirby eventually found himself at Timely's 1950s incarnation, Atlas Comics, later to be known as Marvel Comics. There, in the 1960s, he and writer-editor Stan Lee co-created many o

Art History - Interview with SylwiaTelari:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations:
As part of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some of the Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART Community Volunteers

Today it's the lovely ^SylwiaTelari, your Community Volunteer for Traditional Art

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Hi ^SylwiaTelari, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art.
I'm a creation addict... and my name is Sylwia (: My personality and interests are clearly visible in what and how I do; a bit twisted, with a creepy shell, sometimes rigid, but I tend to hide a smile in details that require your search.
I'm crazy about trying new things and techniques and what you can see in my dA gallery is just a tip of an iceberg.
What is it that attracts you to Traditional Art?
It's traditional (: Anything I do has a connection to the past and it gives me a chill when I think that some of the techni

Famous Photographs: The Afghan GirlIf you run a google search on what are the top famous Photographs of all time, The Afghan Girl is sure to appear. She is truly a face from History and one that many across the globe have tried to capture within others time and time again. But what exactly has made this image and its photographer so captivating?
Source: Daily Mail/National Geographic/Steve McCurry
Eyes, they say, are the window to the soul. And capturing such a piercing and expressive look in a photograph is a highly sought after skill. The Afghan Girl exhibits suspense, suspicion and a sense of distrust at the person behind the lens, she gives off an air of maturity, a foreboding feeling - a vulnerability behind years of strength. That, is what makes her so captivating.
Sharbat Gula is her name, although few even know this rather important detail. Sh

The Beginning of MangaNarrative in art has been seen for centuries in a wide range of different forms. Now I should start off by saying the 'true origins' of manga is disputed. World War II accelerated the world of comics and manga. However we'll take a look at what has been going on before global conflict changed everything. We'll start with the actual name itself, manga, meaning 'whimsical pictures'. So this is the nature of it, satire, doodles, sketches, exaggeration and humour. The first time this term was used to describe a piece of artwork in Japan was given to Hokusai Manga (first published in 1814). So there is the term itself, but going a bit further back is where it's real history becomes debatable.

Theory 1
Manga started around 12-13th century, the Japanese Fujiwara Period. Animal caricatures known seen on picture scrolls are an early form of narrative. They show mischief and fun doodles, and they are actually an early example of Japanese art that is breaking away from their Chinese

Milestones of Digital ArtDigital Art surrounds us everywhere, here are some of the milestones of the genre that lead to the world of Digital Art we know today. This is not meant to be complete, it simply highlights some points in the history of Digital Art that are interesting and maybe even surprising. There are videos!
If you ever created Digital Art, you know that the computer is merely a tool, but never the one actually creating the art. Photoshop may be powerful, but I haven't come across the "Create Awesome Art" button yet

1982 - Adobe introduces PostScript
PostScript as a programming language has changed the work of designers 30 years ago. In short, PostScript was able to interpret any data (vector f.e.) into printable raster graphics, which require dpi settings; Type as well as graphics. This was necessary to allow the same output on any laser printer that supported PostScript, making it easy to share and exchange files without the danger of acci

Art History - Trad Art CV's:iconcommunityrelations: :iconarthistoryproject:
dA's Traditional Art Community Volunteers
Now that Art History has begun with Traditional Art it's only fitting you should get more acquainted with your Traditional Art Community Volunteers!

:icondeshrubber:
^deshrubber - Traditional Art

:iconSalvador-rudy:
^SRudy - Sculpture & Traditional General

:iconSamuelRaffa:
`SRaffa - Traditional Art

Gardening At Night by `SRaffa The Red Shoes by `SRaffa

:iconkiwi-pdd:
^kiwi-pdd - Street Art & Graffiti
Tearing down the temple by ^kiwi-pdd Squirralzilla by ^kiwi-pdd
Manhunter by ^kiwi-pdd :thumb18488884

Capture YOUR Pumpkin: The Results!The Capture Your Pumpkin Contest has ended and the results are in! We had a fantastic turnout with LOTS of entries. You can browse them all here! But there can only be a few winners - and we've got them listed for you below! Congratulations everyone!
1st

*PunkBouncer
2nd

*Sarah-BK
3rd

*LureofSalvage
The Best 'Captured' Pumpkin

*LureofSalvage
We felt that as well as deserving Third Place, *LureofSalvage's pumpkin also deserved to be the best captured winner. Not only did they get creative with their setting, but they also fit the bill of Still Life Photography almost spot on! Well do

Up and ComingThere is an abundance of talent here on deviantART, and I love browsing our fashion photography galleries for emerging artists, at the forefront of the next wave of new talent.
There are always people who catch my eye, and I collect their names and keep an eye on them, because watching people make the most of their talent and fulfill their potential is a wonderful experience. I'm going to share some of the fresh talent I'm currently admiring and amazed by, so that when they're out shooting big campaigns and stories across the world, we can say I told you they were special!"
So have a look at these wonderful artists, this feature is the first in a series, and add them to your watch list to see the fantastic things they come up with in the future.
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Ewelina's photography is full of soulful poignancy; I love the way you can connect with the subject of her photography, even when you can't see their face. The photograph of hers which initially caught my

Cartoons and Comics DD Summary - September 2012:iconkasumicr:
Features by ^KasumiCR

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Art History Interview with kiwi-pdd

Sat Jul 14, 2012, 4:06 AM

As part of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some of the Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART Community Volunteers

Today it's the talented ^kiwi-pdd, Community volunteer for Street Art

Hi ^kiwi-pdd, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art.

The name I go under is Kiwi. The style of art I produce is usually
labeled as street art. I produce canvases using spraypaint and stencils
cut out of card/paper, also hand drawn stickers for trade/placement on
the street.

What is it that attracts you to Traditional Art?

My answer is twofold to that one. Firstly the joy of creating something physical and real that can be held and admired from multiple angles. Secondly my complete ineptitude when it comes to image manipulation software

Are you a member of any dA Traditional Art Groups? If so, which?

Did you study Art at School / College / Uni? Or in your own time?

I studied for 5 A-levels at high school, the fifth being Art. I didn't achieve a massive grade but I did discover a joy for painting. That was quite a while ago now, mostly I pick things up myself by trying new and different things out all the time.

Who is your favourite Traditional Artists of all time?

Dali.

Thank you ^kiwi-pdd!

Check out the #ArtHistoryProject for more about Traditional Art this month and be ready for the other galleries over the next year!

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July is Traditional Month in the #ArtHistoryProject
We will be bringing you features and interviews from the community, today is the creative ^kiwi-pdd - our Community Volunteer for Street Art