Alice Alexander is an interior designers who participated in “The Ideas of March,” a showcase of art and interior design hosted in my art gallery in Clearwater, FL. Here she is in front of her display, giving an interview on her work:
I’ll be posting more interviews with other designers soon.
Triptychs are a wonderful format for artwork. They look great over a couch, along the wall behind the dining room table, over a large screen TV or over the headboard of a bed. Gallery wrapped as three panels, the depth of the canvas panels adds a 3D aspect to the artwork (almost like a hanging sculpture) creating a more interesting presentation that invites the eye and intrigues the senses.
Almost any piece of my artwork can be re-worked into a triptych.
One of the original challenges of making triptychs was figuring out how to plan for the proper overlap of the artwork on each of the three canvases so that there there is no break in continuity looking across the three panels. What would appear in-between the panels is wrapped on the inner edges of the two adjacent panels, so one must allow for the proper overlap when creating each panel.
Hanging triptychs so that each panel is in perfect alignment may seem like a daunting task, but it is actually quite easy. There are two methods that I can share with you in a future blog entry.
I saw something cool and wanted to share. Media Decor makes a creative solution for hiding TVs when the screen is off. A custom-built devise can automatically raise and lower art that covers the TV. Their Youtube page just put up a video of them testing a model with my art on it (the piece is a non-triptych version of “Triptych in Brown“.)
How cool is that!
As an ASID Industry Partner, I’ve had the pleasure of working with some of Florida’s top interior designers. Collaborating with these designers has given me an new appreciation for their craft. It’s impressive to see how much thought and planning goes into designing a space and how much skill it takes to do right. More than just picking the curtains and carpet, an interior designer has to have a vision for creating a space that functions for the people in it and also please them aesthetically. Then they have to have practical, real-world know-how to see these visions made into a reality.
With the help of my wife Jerri, we’ve organized “Ideas of March,” an event showcasing ten of the top local ASID interior designers and their use of my artwork in their designs. The exhibit runs until April 10, 2010 and is open to the public. Read more about the Ideas of March here. The St. Petersburg Times also mentioned it in their Home & Garden section as “Inside designers’ minds.”
I’ve been busy getting ready for the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts this weekend but I wanted to share something I worked on recently. In addition to my artwork, I do photo restorations and reprints of old photos. A woman wanted a picture of her mother restored so she could give it out as a gift to family. The original is pretty faded and discolored and suffers from a lot of damage. Here is the before and after:
As you can see, I fixed several big scratches and marks across her face. But more noticeably, I colorized the entire photo. The daughter gave me direction on where to take it and some other photos for reference. The final result is very stunning when you see it printed out. Today I got an e-mail from the client that says “I cannot thank you enough. Your work is unbelievable.”
Please contact me or call 727-726-7411 if you have any photos you want fixed up!
Here is the piece Cyndi Edwards of Daytime did. I put the video on Youtube so it would be easier to watch:
Here’s the segment “Daytime” did on me and my art!
Scott Menaul on “Daytime” with Cyndi Edwards
This has been a busy week! I completed a series of custom pieces for the Jewels of the Bay, a show house by ASID interior designers that benefits the Boys and Girls Club of Sarasota and Manatee counties. You can see it in this photo from the newspaper article “Designs showcase talent for tours” in the Herald Tribune of Sarasota:
Designer Showhouse in Sarasota, FL
If you’re in St. Petersburg, FL this weekend, head by Temple Beth-el’s 37th Annual Art Festival and check out the art on display, including several pieces of my own. This is my first year in Temple Beth-el and I am also the first artist they’ve accepted that works in digital arts and the first that produces originals on giclée.
And like I said yesterday, the TV show Daytime is running a piece on me and my artwork that’s running on Thursday! I’ll post more about each of these events once I have another spare minute!
The TV show Daytime is running a piece on me and my artwork that’s airing this Thursday. Host Cyndi Edwards came by my studio about a week ago and we shot an interview and I showed her around my gallery. Daytime airs nationwide on the Retro Television Network, NBC, ABC and CBS. You can check your local listing to see when it’s on.
Here are photos of Cyndi Edwards and I during the filming of the show:
As promised, here is the artwork I have been creating using the Aum symbol. You can also see how I preview the artwork in the client’s home using photos of the space.
Those 9 panel pieces are a new creation that I am excited about. They require a custom-built frame to align them, but that actually makes it easier for people to install on their own without help. It would be a pain to have to line up and hang all 9 pieces separately.
I will share the Ganesha art soon! Let me know how you like this.
