art mania florida

Dear artists , art friends and art lovers.
We would love to introduce you our new art magazine.
In our Marion county area, we have many artists, many art groups, many galleries, and many art schools, with various courses, but still it looks like nothing is happening here. Of course this is neither the truth or accurate. It just looks like it on the surface to some people. Through our magazine, our mission is bring you closer to art and the cultural movement of our area. We are going to introduce you to various artists, different art techniques - all in our online magazine. You will find art critiques and interviews with fellow artists. We will inform you on the latest art exhibitions, art classes and more. We hope you will find our experiment interesting and maybe you will be actively interacting with us. How? If you would like to have your art published, please send us a few pictures of your work. Do you know about an interesting venue or exhibition? Let us know and we can advertise it. This area has many artists, and we want our work to be seen and appreciated. We should work together to create a valuable art community.
Daniela Banatova

Introducing artist Grace Morandi

Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, where she achieved a degree in Mechanical Engineering , Grace first steps in the art world begun using her skills as a mechanical designer, taking part in the process of the design of Floats for the annual Barranquilla Festival.

Moved to the USA Where her work took most of her time for many years until the desired for discover new areas where she can expressed herself, gave her the opportunity to work with paper mache, studying different techniques and at the same time sharing her knowledge with kid at school and senior citizens as well.
Later on in live she decided to immerse in the art of painting.Her favorite medium is acrylic because it gives her the opportunity to put her imagination to work in full, while applying layers and layers of colors when trying to imprint the image that is developing in the process of creating her compositions.

As a world traveler, Grace has acquired a great deal of experience trough the influence of artist that she has meet during the visiting to their countries, receiving and absorbing all the knowledge that they could offer.All of that have contributed and influenced in her work, which is a rich variety on style and self interpretation of her "inner feelings, moods and emotions".

Grace is working in a sculpture that represent a music man and will be display in the Ocala City Hall in September 5th.
Grace is proud of her contribution on helping and teaching people to subside in the artistic world. Her art is displayed in private collections around the world. She had receiving multiples awards.Right now she is exhibiting at Santa Fe college, Gainesville and a Artist ally gallery in Ocala town square, where you can appreciate her work.
Her passion for Art have made her a valuable key in the promotion and expansion of art in central Florida.
http://GraceSeniorMorandi.com
Lucy Pinkstaff

How to stretch your own canvas:
Many of us want to have different sizes or shapes of canvases in order to create any design or maybe to
adjust to a space in which we want to display our art. Unconventional canvas sizes can be more
expensive to buy or more difficult to find. For that particular reason I think it will be very useful to know
how to stretch canvas, very easy and for low cost:

You will need:

-A length of canvas unprimed or primed; you can buy this material in the art store, on-line or in the local

fabric store where you can ask for a heavy duty unbleached calico ( plain woven cotton, less coarse and

thicker that canvas and very cheap).

-Wood frame (DIY, as needed)

-Staple gun + staples or carpet tacks and hammer

canvas pliers or extra help from somebody else

Steps:

-Roll out your canvas on a flat surface

-Put the frame on top of canvas

-Cut it to size (remember the canvas has to fold over the back of the frame). It is better to cut extra long

and trim it after.

-Attach the canvas starting working from the middle outward and opposite, cross (+) pattern, and then

the edges, X pattern. Staple the canvas to the back of the frame using 2 staples and about 2” apart.

Remember to continued with the opposite side every time. When staple the edge of the canvas (X

pattern) taught it as tight as you can and then staple, use pliers or extra help to get better results.

At the corners, you fold the canvas very neatly, staple the edges one on top of the other.

If the canvas doesn't get very tight, you have to unstapled and start again.
Lucy Pinkstaff

Art critique
today I would like to write about one photography done by Bill Marder.

Bill has excellent sense of capturing atmosphere, his composition is on the edge of perfectionism. This photography is showing Bills talent in finding best atmospheric moment, when you can feel strong movement in calm moment. His photography will take you in, you will experience your own journey with Bill. I would say, Bill was always pioneer . His way of catching subject with his camera was always on the bring on highest professional and artistic level. He has ability to capture casual moment and elevate it to something extraordinary. You can visit his page to see more of his works https://www.facebook.com/RetrospectivePhotographsByBillMarder
Daniela Banatova

Art with fun in Ocala

Do you want to forget about world around you and be just for a moment artist ? You think it is impossible ? No it is not. You can let all of your fear let go and go to Painting with a Twist.
You will find out that painting is a lot of fun, especially when you can sip wine, have fun with friends.

https://www.paintingwithatwist.com/ocala/

Webber center Gallery:

Ocala has very nice art gallery, which keeps its exhibition on higher standard. Last week I went to see exhibition"prints of landscapes "form permanent collection of Appleton museum.

By my judgment it was higher end event , but to my surprise I was only one visitor there. This was very surprising considering the quality of exponents and also there is no entrance fee what so ever . In Ocala we have many artists, many art students, either from the high school or from the college. But I was here alone. I was puzzled why nobody is coming to see beautiful prints of landscapes done by artist from USA, England, Israel and Hungry .

Also I was little bit disappointed that in the catalog I did not find any information about artists and their works.

I have found at least a few information about artists on the internet and I would like to share those findings with you.

One of the artist exhibiting there was Frances St. Clair Miller

she was born and educated in London, her teachers were well known graphic artists Antony Gross a Bartolomeu dos Santos. From them Miller learned her technical brilliance. Her primary interest had been mixing colors in printing techniques. Her themes are mostly landscape and scene from Herefordshire area with architectural subjects included.Miller believed that printing technique is way how to bring valuable art to general public awareness.

Another very interesting artist is Robert Lobe ,

Lobe was born in Michigan,he has received his education in Ohio .

His major point of interest is the exploration of relationship and conflict between nature and technology. Lobe's main interest is in creating sculptures.

In 1992 he created two lithographs Wood Walks and Tree Talk for New York publisher.

Appleton museum have those prints in its permanent collection .http://www.robertlobe.com/

Ruth Rodman

Rodman is contemporary sculptor and print maker from Boston. She is also experimenting with tapestries. Her specialty is deep printing. Rodman also created special large prints for Disney Corporation in California.