The Artist View Project

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National Art Education Foundation

Founded in 1947, the National Art Education Association is the leading professional membership organization exclusively for visual arts educators. The National Art Education Foundation (NAEF) invests in innovative initiatives to support instructional practice, research, and leadership in visual arts education. Learn more about applying for a grant or donating to NAEF.

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We want to share the world of art with more people, and one of the best ways to do that is to learn from the artists. Here you'll find interviews, demonstrations, tips, techniques, advice and insights from artists across a broad range. The purpose is to entertain as we educate and inform about art, artists and the process they take to create.

This series will also be a fundraiser for the National Art Education Foundation (NAEF), which invests in innovative initiatives to support instructional practice, research, and leadership in visual arts education.

If you know an artist that would like to be featured, email us at support@funddeed.com

Please consider donating and thank you for your support!

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Meet Blakeley Hunter Posted on April 05, 2019 by Fund Deed

Blakeley Hunter is a local South Bay artist who gathers much of her inspiration from the natural world around us; the things that most people find mundane are the same things that spark some of her most unique ideas. Blakeley’s passion for art started at a young age and was....

Blakeley Hunter is a local South Bay artist who gathers much of her inspiration from the natural world around us; the things that most people find mundane are the same things that spark some of her most unique ideas. Blakeley’s passion for art started at a young age and was encouraged by her parents. After studying art in college, Hunter realized she found the most joy in creating abstract works of art using photography, Photoshop, resin, and paint.

In this Artist Interview, Blakeley shares a new process she's been experimenting with using crayons, but not in the way you might think.

"I want to do things in a way to make people think. I would love for people to just start seeing things, the simple things in life, in a way where they are beautiful." -Blakeley Hunter

Watch the complete interview with Blakeley, and donate to support the National Art Education Foundation here - https://funddeed.com/projects/artistview/

Find Blakeley on these social channels:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blakeleyhunterart/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Blakeley.Hunter/

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Wendy shares some finer details Posted on December 20, 2018 by Fund Deed

Wendy Stillman is an artist living in Manhattan Beach, CA. She is featured in our Artist View series to help support the National Arts Education Foundation. This is a segment from Wendy's full interview which is available at https://funddeed.com/projects/artistview/ In this 'details' update: "So, I was just saying, there’s so....

Wendy Stillman is an artist living in Manhattan Beach, CA. She is featured in our Artist View series to help support the National Arts Education Foundation.

This is a segment from Wendy's full interview which is available at https://funddeed.com/projects/artistview/

In this 'details' update:
"So, I was just saying, there’s so many different layers to this. I started off layering a bunch of paint on. And then I go in with tools. Heres one of my tools. And I just kind of get in there and I start scratching the paint off and you can start see the different layers underneath there. So when you really get up close to this piece you can really start to see all the work that’s gone into it. Because I’ve been working for months. and then at the top layer is when I started using that acrylic pin and just kind of putting on the finer details. There is a lot of texture and scratching out and layers and details. I love to kind of show the emotion of what’s going on with the character and what their eyes and their pupils and their mouth‘s and stuff. And their hair, it always gives the figure, you know, their personality. It’s own personality. It’s hard for me to draw the same person twice." - Wendy Stillman

Find Wendy's art at http://www.wendystillmanart.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendystillmanart/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Wendystillmanart/

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Meet Wendy Stillman Posted on December 01, 2018 by Fund Deed

WENDY STILLMAN Wendy Stillman was born in Miami, FL and has lived in the UK, Canada, France and Austria before settling in Manhattan Beach, CA, where she also runs her jewelry business, Wendy Stillman Jewelry. "I started drawing and painting when I was a kid, and I never stopped because....

WENDY STILLMAN

Wendy Stillman was born in Miami, FL and has lived in the UK, Canada, France and Austria before settling in Manhattan Beach, CA, where she also runs her jewelry business, Wendy Stillman Jewelry.

"I started drawing and painting when I was a kid, and I never stopped because I couldn't stop. It's like getting dressed; it's always a part of my day."

I'm a member of The Hermosa Beach Artist Collective, a workspace gallery in Hermosa Beach. I have also been privileged to teach art at the elementary level for the past 9 years through an amazing art program called Young at Art.

Wake, Make, Create and Repeat!

-Wendy Stillman, Artist

Watch the complete interview with Wendy, and donate to support the National Art Education Foundation here - https://funddeed.com/projects/artistview/

Find Wendy's art at http://www.wendystillmanart.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendystillmanart/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Wendystillmanart/

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Meet Drica Lobo Posted on October 09, 2018 by Fund Deed

DRICA LOBO Drica Lobo is an artist whose work captures happiness and vibrant strokes. Drica’s fascination with art began as a small child. She was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, moved to the United States in 2003, and made Hermosa Beach, CA her home in 2007. Largely self- taught, Lobo....

DRICA LOBO

Drica Lobo is an artist whose work captures happiness and vibrant strokes. Drica’s fascination with art began as a small child. She was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, moved to the United States in 2003, and made Hermosa Beach, CA her home in 2007. Largely self- taught, Lobo has taken several painting classes during 15 years where she has studied with celebrated artists including Jose Ismael and Lisa Schultz. She completed her Master of Communications Degree at the University of Guarulhos, Sao Paulo in 2001.

Her paintings establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, she investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.

Her works never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality.

Drica Lobo currently lives and works in Hermosa Beach. Her work is included in public and private collections around the world, including Brazil, United States, Singapore and China. She is a member of Hermosa Beach Artist Collective (HBCA) and Foundation of Local Arts (FOLA) in California.

Drica is currently showing her work at Resin Hermosa in her solo show "There's No Planet B" - https://www.facebook.com/events/258609881419990/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/dricaloboart/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/dricaloboart/

WEBSITE: https://www.dricalobo.com/

Watch Drica's full interview (edited) and hear more about here background, her influences and inspiration, along with her techniques and insights on how she works.

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