I’ll be starting this thing back up in January!
About
This blog is run and curated by me, Joey Bates. I know of too many amazing artists not to share them with the world. This blog is comprised of artwork and information about that artwork as well as studio visits with artists, interviews, and process posts. For the first few months I will be focusing on artists that I know. Down the line I hope to work with artists I don't know personally.
To see my work visit:
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Art Giveaway!
To celebrate reaching 500 tumblr followers, I’m giving away a piece from my brand new Mini Bridges series! To enter, simply reblog this post by Wednesday May 9th at Noon. The winner, chosen by random.org list generator, will be given first dibs on their chosen piece before the series is made available for purchase! Good luck!
-This is my friend Shaun’s work. He’s pretty awesome. I wouldn’t mind winning one of these bad boys. -JB
“I did some very good books. It is mostly an isolationist form of life; doing books, doing pictures. It’s the only true happiness I have ever, ever enjoyed in my life. It’s sublime. Just going into another room and making pictures. It’s magic time. Where all your weakness of character and all your blemishes of personality and whatever torments you fades away, just doesn’t matter. You’re doing the one thing you want to do and you do it well, and you know you do it well. You’re happy. The whole promise is to do the work sitting down at the drawing table, turning on the radio. I think: what a transcendent life this is, that I am doing everything that I want to do. In that moment I feel that I’m a lucky man.”
-Maurice Sendak
Recent drawing. May or may not be finished.
I know this is a departure from the usual here but, I cannot stop listening to this piece by Susan Sundfor. Her new album comes out the 23rd of March. I am going to buy it as soon as possible. Beautiful/haunting video, amazing song.
Art Give Away
I’ll be giving this original gouache drawing away on my Facebook page. If interested in entering the contest go to: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joey-Bates/192876500760722
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*Spread the word about my art…
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-tumblr: www.morethanabit.tumblr.com
I will put the list of entrants into the list randomizer at random.org/lists
I will not share any of your information with anyone.
This contest is free and helps me spread the word about my work. I’m grateful for the following I have, but need some help in taking over the world… just joking about the taking over the world part.
The winner will be selected WEDNESDAY the 15th of FEBRUARY
About the drawing.
I haven’t made many portraits over the past several months and was itching to make one. So I used a photograph I found just the other weekend in Bellingham, Washington- at Alladin’s Antiques- as reference.
The world can be a strange and small place. There are two names and a German word typed on the back of the portrait: Maria- Darstellerin Annemie Mayr. After some searching and translation through the internets I found that the girls name is Annemie Mayr and Darstellerin means Actress. She played Maria.
Passion plays are recreations of christ’s death. The town of Oberammergau, in Bavaria, Germany has been producing passion plays every ten years since 1634. The townspeople of 1634 promised god to produce a passion play every ten years in return for safety from the bubonic plague that had been affecting the region at the time.
Annemie Mayr played Maria in 1934. This production portrait was taken in relation with that production and somehow ended up in Bellingham, Washington. It now resides in Seattle, Washington. Crazy.
It’s kind of crazy stumbling across the awesome blogs/ tumblrs you follow and finding your work. Thanks for all the link love internets. -Joey Bates http://www.joeybates.com
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