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Artist of the Month - Alex Soto

February 8th, 2010

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This Month WHACK is featuring the artist Alex Soto. We sat down with Alex to find out about his inspiration, creative process, and show off his amazing animations. (more…)

Artist of the Month - Katherine Sandoz

December 29th, 2009

-Do you ever deal with clients that restrict your creative process?
The short answer is, “Probably so.”  I do like to think of creativity as a disease.  If you’re infected, you can spread the germ.  My best relationships with art directors rely on an understanding that they have uber-brains and I have an uber-hand (at least for that project).
-How do you deal with criticism from your piers?
Peers?  I respond well to all types of formal criticism.  If one doesn’t know what that is, I might be less apt to take the review seriously.
-What inspires your style of illustrations/color pallet?
Palette?  I draw a lot.  People who do this naturally arrive at a style.  It’s inevitable with frequent and concentrated effort….even for those who don’t call themselves artists.  This is the magic of art.  As for color, I pour over a lot of reference materials  - take mental notes.  Nature always inspires – seems to have a knack for those complementary and close complementary color relationships to which people tend to respond.  I also pay lots of attention to the mixing of paint, it’s translucency, transparency and opacity.  I think this helps with the way in which color is transmitted and how powerful its impact.
-What visual references do you call upon for inspiration and influence?
Peer work (every kind), advertising, magazines, movies, gardens, landscapes – I’m always in observation mode.  Reading also informs my work visually.  I learn a lot from writers given that they make pictures, at least for me, with words.
-What personal projects are you pursuing at the moment?
I just finished 15 paintings of deer (to coincide with the rut this year).  I’m also working on a series of women decorated with jellyfish.  And I’ve been painting a new series of abstract landscapes.
-Beverage of choice?
Coffee.  La Croix chaser.
-Favorite object?(please provide picture if possible)
I’m madly in love with my computer (MacBook)  - or addicted – either one.  But I do love my three year old son’s drawings.

bgkatherinesandoz Artist of the Month - Katherine Sandoz

This Month WHACK is featuring the artist Katherine Sandoz. We sat down with Katherine to find out about her inspiration, creative process, and let her correct some of our spelling mistakes (wink).

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Artist of the Month - Courtney Reagor

October 12th, 2009

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This Month WHACK is featuring the artist Courtney Reagor. We sat down with Courtney to find out about her inspiration, creative process, and influences.

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Artist of the Month – Matt Hebermehl

August 31st, 2009

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This Month WHACK is featuring the acclaimed artist Matt Hebermehl. We sat down with Matt to find out about his inspiration, creative process, and influences. (more…)

How to become one of Whack's Featured Artists

August 28th, 2009

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At the core we are all artists here at WHACK media design. The need for creative ideas is constant. We want to help support spontaneous creations, by tagging our back wall. It’s our way to feature your art, creation, sketch, painting, whatever the medium. We encourage you to tag our wall and we’ll feature your artwork for the month, link to your site, facebook, twitter, etc., to help promote you as an artist, as well as keep our wall fresh with ideas. Find out how to be a WHACK featured artist below.

We want you to tag our wall. (example below by artist Matt Hebermehl)

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Rules:

  1. Download the wall template .jpg (right click to download to desktop), pre-sized for convenience.
  2. Tag the wall. Draw, tag, paint, sketch, illustrate, photoshop your artwork on our wall.
  3. Save down for web in .jpg format. (Images should be no larger than 900kb).
  4. Send your tagged .jpg image* to us at info@whackdesign.com as well as the following information:
    1. Include your Full Name, Contact Email, Location, Website links (portfolio, facebook, twitter, etc.)
  5. If we approve your artwork to be featured on our wall we will contact you for a brief interview and ask for a photo of you to be featured in the Featured Artist section of our journal.
*All artwork submitted by artists automatically gives WHACK media design, LLC. permission to use the imagery for it’s website, blog, and any other online promotional media.

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