Recent content by brianvds

Rather like this one, though I think it would look better on a wall than on canvas... :-) Lady Pink (b Sandra Fabara, 1964) - Malcolm X, 1992. Spray enamel and acrylic on canvas, 127 x 116 cm. From the information at Gandalf's Gallery: Lady Pink, (born Sandra Fabara, in Ambato, 1964), is an...

One can always do a bit of both. I suppose there might also be a market for single pages of quotes, illuminated with decorations and illustrations; sort of a hybrid between a book and a painting. :-)

Indeed. I have tried to market hand-painted cards, at the same or even lower price than mass-produced ones, but it appears there's virtually no market. People now insist on a printed one. I admire anyone who can do poetry. My own attempts to even just understand it, let alone write any, have...

As do I: I download videos of live performances from YouTube, and watch/listen before sleep - very relaxing. :-)

As far as I am concerned, "fine art" is "art for art's sake", i.e. things like paintings intended to be hung on a wall, as opposed to illustration, in which pictures explain or enhance books, posters or advertisements. Obviously, there will be some grey areas and overlap in between, and one is...

I have seen it and read it, but decided to let the topic go, as the moderator requested we avoid falling down a political hole. So back to scammers I go. Artists seem to be uniquely vulnerable. My late uncle was an artist, long before the days of internet marketing and scamming. He had to work...

Yup, that's the problem: before long you won't necessarily even be able to tell whether it's a friend or family member. But systems to control this kind of thing also evolve; one may soon see AIs trained to control other AIs! Anyway, if needs be we can always switch off, tune out and return to...

When I was a kid, we sometimes hunted birds, with a slingshot or air rifle. But my father had a rule: you eat what you shoot. And so we would make a little fire and cook and eat what we hunted. The very thought is enough to give people nightmares nowadays. :-)

I am perfectly in favor of equal opportunities for all. You are of course right that throughout most of history, women were either denied an education, or they had to get one in institutions that were geared for males. One can argue that today's schools are geared for girls rather than boys, but...

I'm not sure it makes any difference whether AI art is "really" art. It might still compete human artists (particularly in art intended for reproduction) out of business, simply because it is cheaper, and my experience is that the public can't really tell the difference. But that remains to be...

I don't get the impression that the powers that be at FB particularly care about scammers, but I may be wrong. One can of course play with them, but my major issue is not so much fear of being scammed as simply that they waste my time. I can usually smell a scam from the very first message, but...

As far as I can work out, stats indicate that girls are more prone to social media addiction than boys. The boys, instead, get addicted to video games. In both cases, screen addiction is now a major disaster for childhood development. If it makes you feel better, outcomes for boys tend to be...

I don't think it will matter if they keep it alive in some or other hidden corner. We'll see what happens. I have not deleted my personal FB account; only the business one. Now I'll see whether I suddenly get accosted out of the blue on my personal account, by more "John Billies" desperate to...

Years ago I created a professional FB page, specifically for posting my work, instead of mixing social posts with professional ones. At the time it seemed like a good idea - people interested in my art will not necessarily want to read through my jokes or political opinions, so in a general sort...

One would think that transcribing Bach's keyboard works for solo recorder would be complete folly. But this bloke makes it sound like it was actually the keyboard version that was the transcription... :-)