As any mother will tell you, being a mother is pretty much a full-time job one way or another … at least until they go to school when you get a few hours off and only have to cope with whatever they bring home with them. Alexandra Dawe has managed to combine motherly duties and artistic work as you can see in this photo where she is sketching her daughter whilst holding the younger sibling who appears to be taking as little interest in his mother’s artistic abilities as is humanly possible. Maybe he’s having artistic dreams …
000000000000000000000000000000Artist Alexandra Dawe sketching
Alexandra always has a full schedule even if it doesn’t look that way in this photo. Her next event is on 29th & 30th October when she will be at the Avalon Faery Fayre in Glastonbury. It is being held in the town hall and entry is free. The opening hours are 10.30am- 5pm or thereabouts. If you’re around then pop down and tell her you read about it on Artists UK DotNet.
Issue 10 of the Magical Times has a feature on Alexandra Dawe’s artwork. She decided to just write a small paragraph and have loads of pictures. She says she finds it hard to waffle on endlessly about inspiration etc and feels it just makes her sound like a fanatical, tree-loving, lunatic. Even if she is she doesn’t necessarily want everyone to know!
Sometime in the new year there will be four Alexandra Dawe paintings appearing in a TV documentary called Cé a Chónaigh I mo Theachsa? (Who lived in my house?) but it is only airing in Ireland sadly. They’ll probably have it on their iplayer for a while as well and Alex will have a link on her website when they tell her where it is.
You can visit Alexandra Dawe at her website here or see her work on Deviant Art here. You can see a range of prints of her work in various sizes at Artists UK here and original paintings for sale here.
The Green Man comic book by Nic
It isn’t often that something really new comes along in the field of comics or graphic novels but this is an amazing achievement. The whole of the Green Man comic book, story, text and pictures was created by one talented man whose family supported him in giving up his job to produce this masterpiece. There really is nothing quite like it and for anyone into Playmobil or Lego seeing the toys come to life like this is amazing. It has a fabulous storyline with clever and artistically produced photographs of Playmobil toys in real or created landscapes or settings. The reader can have absolutely no idea how much work is involved just to get the shadow right that one of the little Playmobil toys casts in a realistic landscape setting! This kind of design work is really creative and required a good eye for detail and a lot of skill and patience on the part of the author. If you want to find out more you can visit the author’s website here.
The Green Man comic book is available in English and German with the French and Spanish versions due for release anytime now. The author worked with a numbedr of skilled translators to have the Green Man comic book translated into the other languages from the original English. The German was translated by Johanne Ostendorf whose website is here where you can read in her project examples how much she enjoyed working on this unique project.
Disney's Lion King
Disney’s Lion King film has been remastered in 3D and out now!
Whether you’ve seen The Lion King by Walt Disney or not it’ll be
worth seeing. Disney’s Lion King follows the story of young Simba
lion cub and is full of great Disney characters like the “zen-type guru” baboon.
In 3D Disney’s Lion King film should really be something.
Back when the Lion King film was first released we got hold of a few
Disney Lion King promos. Each one is a glossy reproduction
of a great scene from Walt Disney’s Lion King film.
You can see all four Lion King prints here.
Isabel by Bob Venosa
ROBERT VENOSA January 21, 1936 to August 9, 2011
We thought we’d choose this one by Bob Venosa as picture of the month since Bob Venosa finally lost his battle against cancer recently having confounded the doctor’s for eight years by defying their “you’ve only got a couple of months to live Mr Venosa” predictions and carrying on for eight years. Bob Venosa, inspired by Dali to a large extent, was a great painter. Bob Venosa’s wife said, “The great Venosa left his body on Tuesday August 9, 2011 at 6:56 PM.” Robert Venosa’s famous works of visionary art paintings inspired countless artists. To see more, click here.
The Artists UK Krazy Summer Sale is finally over and what a busy summer it has been. In some respects it is good that it has not been so warm up here! Did we really sell over 50 prints and posters for only 1p? It seems like some of our customers really couldn’t believe their luck. Strangely, the hits on our website and the orders that are coming in after the sale are well up so maybe our madness has not been so mad after all. Maybe all our grateful customers receiving their print or poster for only 1p have been telling other people how mad we are … or maybe something a little kinder. We do our best and can only hope 
Loads of MC Escher puzzles and prints by clicking here!