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How to arrange paintings
Every now and then I need to visualize ideas for arranging paintings and prints for clients, thus I decided to put together some suggestions for home and office arrangements. The pictures in this post are from Pinterest and the rights belong to the respective authors. Some photos found on Pinterest, copyright belongs to the rightful owners.
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I present to you: Freeria
As you may have guessed behind this logo stands a very feminine team: I present to you Eti, Tzveti and Poli, who a few years ago combined their efforts in order to create hand-crafted and painted beauties. I have known them for a long time and I think they have always been passionate about beauty, thus I am deluged to see how the idea for creating and developing their own brand gradually came into fruition. Each of the Freerias has specialized in a different area: Eti makes the bags and does the products’ photos, Tzveti creates jewellery and manages the website, Poli receives the orders for paintings and creates them…
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Art documentaries
Many people maybe wonder what the hell do the artists do all day. Here are some beautifully shot video materials that throw a little light on the matter.. and here are some artists studios – some of which are brutal…
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About my career path
Lilly Georgieva who consults women how to create clear vision about a career which brings joy and satisfaction, invited me to talk about my career path and the changes in the meantime. This is the outcome: “Hi, Alex. You have been an artist for twenty years, however for some years you worked in office environment at IT companies – a completetely different area. What provoked you to consider making a change? And how did it happen?” Most of the artists all over the world have a full-time job. It helps them to earn their living while they are developing as artists. At the beginning, painting balanced for me the stress…
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“Mr. Turner”
I have been waiting for this movie for a long time, because I imagined it will be a worthy pearl amongst the movies about artists. and indeed, Mike Leigh has created a wonderful illustration (balancing the facts with fiction well) of the adult years of Joseph Mallord William Turner, up to his death. At the beginning there is a lot of humor in the otherwise oppressive and archaic setting, but as the years go by the mood becomes darker and darker – a reflection of the artist’s experiences… “loneliness and solitude are two different things”… I doubt there is a better choice for the role of the growling and eccentric Turner…
