Halloween - Artist Ray Villafane carves out his niche!

Artist Ray Villafane began carving pumpkins on a lark for his art students in

a small rural school district in Michigan. The hobby changed his life as he gained

 a viral following online and unlocked his genuine love of sculpting.

Click on the image to enlarge.... Here are images of pumpkin carvings Villafane created over the past five years.

 

What is a " BLOG"?

My daughter asked me what is a " Blog?"

This question came to be when I told her and her boyfriend that I created a blog page and that I was going to write in it. You see I started my own blog, Blog with Alberta Sport Artist Joe Versikaitis about two weeks ago. Here I will talk about Sport art, marketing, photography and yes a little bit of hockey.Yeah I know the name is a little long but what ever. I like it.

I thought a Blog would be kinda fun to create. It was so much fun that after I created my first blog page I created another blog page. This one I called Blog with my fellow Artist. In this blog page I want to encourage local artist to send me their works so that I can post it on my blog.  My madness behind this concept is that if I show case other artist work then hopefully they will return the favor by show casing my work on their blog. I'm just trying to create a artsy fartsy community. We'll see how it goes.

After all the reading and scrutinising of other blogs. I have come to the conclusion that this blogging business is really a place to write my diary about my life. I talk about my art work and how that particular  piece was created. I also bring in guest writers with marketing ideas and I try to promote a marketing guru by the name of Alyson Stanfield. Alyson has a great book called " I'd rather be in the studio ". For any of you artist out there that are interested in stepping into a career path as an artist then this book is a must.

 My stories about meeting hockey super stars like Teemu Selanne, Trevor Kidd and soon to come Theo Fleury and Sandy McCarthy is really the part of my art that keeps me going. If it wasn't for my dream to be an N.H.L. artist the reason for marketing and blogging would be none existence.

 So in saying all this, it seems that when people ask what is a blog. My response has to be this....

It's about writing what ever you want to write about, discussing a favorite topic with a person that you've never met before or in my case show casing mine other artist works. In all fairness Blogging to me is creating a community on a single web page where artist can come to visit...Simple!

Joe Versikaitis - Artist
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Gena Lacoste is at it again

Gena LaCoste has three new pieces of beautiful art to display for Blog with my Fellow Artist. We'll sure be looking for her up and coming show in December through to February at the Esplanade Art Gallery in Medicine Hat.  I will keep you posted.

"Meandering Home" and that's my beautiful old mare "Polly" in the middle

"Saturday's line up"

"Takin' Care of Biddy-ness"

 You can go to Gena's web site at Gena LaCoste

Medicine Hat, Alberta Western Watercolor Artist Gena LaCoste paints what she loves.

Design layout using Gena LaCoste Bull Rider

The Story Teller by Gena LaCoste

A Brush with Life... by Pearl Dubourt

Gena LaCoste paints what she loves. Gena has loved the grasslands from her first breath. She learned about the land and its unique ecosystems from her family, and this love has equipped her to paint the authentic lifestyles of prairie families. Now, Gena paints what she loves. "I was painting and drawing by the time I was three years of age," Gena recalls. "My early memories include the river at the cow camps, and the sounds of water sliding past. Dust, heat rising, the arid smells of sage brush, and the tones of light begged to be painted." Riding on her own horse to the cow camp with her father, for instance, etched images in her heart that she tries to record through colours and water. "I remember trying to find a way to draw a horse so that it looked like the ones in front of me."

For the rest of Gena's story and artwork go to Gena LaCoste

"Gena and I were in a Life Drawing art class together. It just blew me away on how quickly she worked and how her watercolor techniques created such beautiful art pieces. Just fantastic works." - Joe Versikaitis