I could’t pass this piece of art without posting it on die without ART.

It have simple look, creative shortage of every artistic epoch and it have educative character :) what could you ask for more? ;)

You can recognize every artists style, I think that commenting on every style is not an essence of this post, so we will just skip that.

There are many artist in same epoch as one of these represented, but as you can see these are representatives according to artist of this piece of art…

Write a comment, give us response if you have something interesting on this subject…

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Written by  Csapello

When I said I wanna blog about her, she thought I’ve muddled her with someone else. No dear, that’s you. Abi Daker has working as a professional artist since graduating from the University of Reading in 2003. Abi provides illustrations & artwork for children’s books, print and web publications, adverts, posters and private commissions. Her work is always drawn freehand, whether it is coloured digitally or with dry or wet media.

All my personal work is based around things I see during the day; people, places and scenery. I draw a lot of aerial views because I like to see the top of buildings.

Did you heard about a Happy Journey? O’yes, Abi is one of the founders – I’ve blogged more about the project before. You can find more of her creative work at abidaker.com and make sure you are following her on Twitter. She’s cute!

Thank you for being so modest! Love you.

Did you know that? Now you know. I think this is the first time something cool connected with my homeland – Croatia is featured on LearnSomethingEveryDay.co.uk. Site is full of interesting facts illustrated daily on a very unique way, with the simple drawings. It’s a must-follow in your rss readers and you can also submit your fact(s), so get involved.

Every day, during my searching for interesting stories and creative brains, I usually stop by on modest websites which impress me with the small details. And again I have very-very interesting story, about Umber studios. I talked to lovely Jessica who told me more about their creative space.

She decided to open a commission free gallery four years ago, after many years of showing at galleries and truely disliking the strange effect it seemed to have on artists, including herself. It is her opinion (and opinion only) that art’s main purpose is to be viewed, seen, money is secondary.

Most galleries take too much commission and strip the artist of any of their love and happiness, art for art’s sake.

Jessica understands that a gallery is a business, but it was more important for her to create a gallery that restored the heart back into the artist, and into art. She is a drawer/polaroid transferer/painter/scribbler and her studiomates are all film photographers and shoot with hasselblads. Wow.

So far they have had about 37 shows in the past three years. Umber studios shows every kind of art and each artist is his own curator. Very important is that the artist has complete freedom, she said. This is rare in galleries, usually there is a curator deciding what will show and what will not. Umber studios have had some truely amazing shows.

It’s been my experience that the artist wants and amazing show just as much as I do, in fact, he or she wants it even more than me, and I’ve seen so many artists pour their hearts into their opening at umber.

About the selection Jessica told me she choose artists based on two things: she must like you, and she must like your art. It’s entirely subjective, but art is.

I want to show artists who share the same love I have for art. As art being expression, not art being a money maker.

If they sell pieces that’s icing on the cake. Jessica likes to show a good mix of brand new artists, established artists, and national/international group shows. Their future plans are to continue as is and keep providing a free space for artists to express themselves and experiment with new ideas.

Beside the studiomates Janell and Phil, Jessica has a dog Gracie who is a permanent fixture at the studio. If you are traveling or live near Minneapolis feel free to drop by and say hello, do not forget to bring milkbones for Gracie.

Jessica, thank you for sharing your lovely story with my readers, I believe they are already waiting for the next. I’d like to cooperate with you and be a friend, so welcome to DwA’s Friends with creative brains.

Digital graffiti wall? Wow! Guys from Chairman Ting performed at the Salt Building inside the Athlete’s Village. They were commissioned by The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Interesting fact is that Tangible Interaction have made this unique digital graffiti wall technology using Open Frameworks. Creative open source, for the win.

Now, artists can digitally “paint” a surface in the same way they can tag a wall with traditional spray paint.

You’ve noticed something new here? O’yes it’s a header illustration made by my dear friend Djurdjica Selec also know as Djuro. She’s amazing and really nice person, I usually call her a ninja because she kicks ass in drawing stuff. As freelance web designer and illustrator she works with the clients around the world. Djurdjica recently moved to the coast and still can’t believe it.

She’s currently working on improving her drawing skills, her design eye, reorganizing both her online and physical studio, preparing fish and going to bed no later than 5am. I’ve spent a few great weekends with her and had so much fun. For Christmas Djuro bought me a book called “Sexy Web Design”, by Elliot Jay Stocks which is still on my *Read me* list. She sometimes tweets about these things. And sometimes, when things consume her enough, she will draw them and put them on her blog.

To realize what she meant with the illustration I asked her a few questions:

The illustration you’ve done is not far away from the blog concept, and that’s why I like it very much. How did you come to the idea?

Well, since our initial Skype musings on Die Without Art blog, we both loved the idea of the illustration to literally represent that title. Your only wishes were to make it black and white, with a dash of red. So that was perfect, because we both wanted it bloody :).

Later I spent (how much?) two – three weeks, just letting my sick and bizarre part of mind do its work. At first I was getting all sorts of suicide – scene ideas, but soon I threw those out and just wallowed in ironic and more “bad luck” ones. And those came suprisingly easy.

This idea came to me while I was in the exact position our guy there is – the living one. I was drawing, with my iPod on and thinking “Okay, so I am indulging in some form of art, so I am safe now, but what if I weren’t?” and BAM! A piano falls right next to me! Well not really, but piano is the quintessential thing to be falling from the sky, killing random non art – loving people. The dog came to the picture later, as I felt bad for killing the poor guy, so hey, why not give him someone to fire the alarm?

It is a very self-explanatory idea and I liked that, header – wise.

I’m sure readers wanna know how you draw it?

I like to have a photo reference when drawing people, so after an unsuccessful web search for the exact poses I imagined, I turned to my only model available at midnight – my boyfriend, and made him pose for both our guys. I must say he was very cooperative, even stayed in the “you were just crashed by a piano” pose longer than needed. The piano was easy to find. So that was the sketch.

After realizing I sketched a way too vertical composition for a header, I traced it on a another paper. Actually two papers, glued together (you can notice the seam on the piano). I traced it with a pencil, and then traced it again with a thin black pen. I used Staedtler Tripulus Fineliner. Originally I planned on on coloring it in Photoshop, but I got carried away with the fineliner, and did the shadowing with hand. I also used a red fineliner and a grey Faber-Castell crayon. And lots of eraser!

I know you’re attending a drawing course, can we expect new works, soon?

Well if I do wish to exhibit something soon, it will surely go up on my blog. I’m trying to keep myself in a learning-mode as much as possible, and the drawing course is extremely valuable for that. Most of my work now is school-work. I sometimes publish that work on Twitter, while the initial “I made a drawing!” enthusiasm is still with me. To publish something purposefully, I need a backstory, an idea, a blog post, or a fun project such as DwA here :)

Thank you Djuro!

You’re following Djuro already?

Djuro is one of DwA’s friends with creative brains, read her blog at drawingdjuro.com. Hope she will publish new stuff more often. There you can find her drawings and sweet words. For short updates please follow her on Twitter.

Wallpaper alert!

You like the illustration ninja Djuro made? You can have it on your desktop. Just choose the resolution 1280×1024, 1680×1050 or 2560×1600 pixels and enjoy it every time you minimize your windows.

DwA logo is on the way. Stay tuned. Thanks for reading.

Wake up your photos because the frames may be boring and static a bit. With the awesome Doodle Frames you can scribble a new one every day. Draw speech or thought bubbles, write notes or reminders for yourself. This product comes from Photojojo and it costs $15.

It’s great for telling the story behind a photo and adding a title or description.

Always decorate your creative workspace to feel comfortable while working. Have fun with little things like this and follow your imagination.

New awesome fish eye photo came from Threadless. Their in-house magical graffiti musician snowboarder extraordinaire, Joe Suta, is back in town this week to paint up a bunch of mashup murals for the next few weeks of releases.

In this photo (credit: Threadless 365) he’s prepping pieces of Masonite.

His place is so amazing, he’s surrounded by colors, accessories, papers and other creative stuff. How I see, Joe is good at managing his creative mess.

What about you?

What kind of art is this? Simply, my interpretation is “the fate of smokers”. Now you see how smoking can be art. Whatever, I’m sure mixed stuff below inspires you to think twice, next time.

Daniel Sparkes began his artistic career as a key member of the British street art scene in the early 2000s. Before long, this lead to work producing designs for fashion brands such as Nike and Sixpack and illustrations for clients such as Redbull and Warp Records.

Sparkes now works purely as a fine artist, producing drawings and paintings for exhibition. Find his work at danielksparkes.com.