Serving the Creative Community : Fuel 4 Arts

Mar

Conceptart.org: The Perfect Place For Artists

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As a digital artist trying to grow my talents, it was difficult to find a place, on the web, to meet with other artists and to learn. That was until about 3 years ago, when I stumbled across Conceptart.org. Don’t be fooled by the website’s name, this isn’t just a place for concept artists, it is a place for all artists, both traditional and digital.

My goals as an artist are simple, I want to draw and paint the pictures More

Feb

Henry Moore comes to Tate Britain

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I grew up in a fairly nondescript town of Northern England surrounded by terraced housing and rolling windswept hills. One of the consolations though was the proximity of a sculpture park, and as a child I was particularly fascinated by the collection of Henry Moore sculptures housed there. They seemed to me as magnificent and imposing as the Easter Island heads. Now living in Leeds I will soon get the chance to reacquaint myself with the works of the great More

Feb

Stretch It Yourself

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Stretch It Yourself

Walking into a gallery and talking to the owner as you both wander around looking at all the fantastic canvases might give you the impression that you have to get an expert to stretch your canvases for you; while it’s advisable if you plan to exhibit the work to a high standard, it isn’t essential. With a small amount of training anyone can make their own canvases and for a decent price. All you need is the More

Feb

Best Music Vids - The Smashing Pumpkins.

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Best Music Vids - The Smashing Pumpkins.

As a big Smashing Pumpkins fan, I am very familiar with most of their music videos. There are a couple of different ones which stand out for me (‘Disarm’, ‘Tonight, Tonight’, ‘Stand inside Your Love’ and ‘33’), but my absolute favourite is ‘Ava Adore’. I have to choose that one just because it is so damned clever.

Filming an entire music video in one camera shot has been done a few times before. However, I don’t think that any of More

Feb

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The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters a Review

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London’s Royal Academy of Arts is currently running an exhibition called “The Real Vincent van Gogh. It is due to end on the 18th of April 2010. The exhibition includes his paintings and personal letters. Thinking of Vincent Van Gogh brings a lot thing to mind. It could be sunflowers, the missing ear or the tragic suicide that took his life. This exhibition allows you to discover the man behind the legend. It is the first major exhibition in over More

Jan

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Vancouver Cultural Olympiad – Celebrating Arts And Culture

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Is the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad the “celebration of the contemporary imagination” as aspired by the organizing committee? The Winter Olympiad 2010 is about to start and Vancouver has already proved that it can organize a long and well appointed series of festivals and events that demonstrate and present the cultural heritage of the country and the city in the best possible way.

Vancouver is the first city in the history of the Olympic Winter Games to host a cultural Olympiad More

Jan

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How To Mix Pencil Crayon With Oil Pastel.

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It’s very difficult to come up with some sort of original technique in art. Sure, they are lots of clever ways of mixing different mediums and doing different things, but they are what other artists have thought of. Coming up with your own idea is not so easy, but when you finally do you will feel pretty smug!

I managed to find a new way of drawing a while back. Well, at least I think it’s a new way. More

Jan

5

The Joke That Is Art.

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‘It’s hard these days, being an artist.

It’s even harder when you’re socially conscious.’

That’s something from a song by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy that I think is very true indeed.

The reality of today’s art scene is that anyone can be an ‘artist’. You do not need to be able to draw and even if you can, then the quality of your work is not important. You don’t believe me? Have a look in a London gallery.

I More

Jan

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Welcome

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Welcome to the newly revamped Fuel 4 Arts page, soon we will have all of our normal networking services up and running again, but until then I will be posting regularly on this blog to keep you up to date. Hope that you enjoy what we are doing and I look forward to creating a new community with all of you!