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Nice Note from Sandi Cottrell of ArtWalk on the Business of Art Scholarship Project

posted on February 27, 2011 in Digital, Project Design, Teaching and tagged , , , ,    
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"John Hiemstra was the co-creator of the "Business of Art Scholarship"...something ArtWalk had hoped to do for 5 years, but John's enthusiasm for the project made it a reality."

Congratulations, Franco- and thank you!

posted on November 22, 2010 in Analog, Teaching and tagged , , ,    

I’m going to take a little more time out of that to write a bit about my mentor Franco Colavecchia, who is retiring from teaching this week after his latest 15 year tenure at North Carolina School of the Arts, where we met in 1998.

Resetting the stage, one year later.

posted on October 7, 2010 in Social Media for Businesses, Video and tagged , , , ,    
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Pittsburgh, to be honest, has turned out to be a very rich place and robust place to put down business roots in a generally cold and uncertain business environment and at almost exactly one year to date of my arrival …

Finally painting in Pittsburgh, even with the snow.

posted on February 17, 2010 in Analog, Updates and tagged , , , , , , , , ,    
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Its been crazy busy as the snow continues to fall here in Pittsburgh.  Since we’re moving this month into our new house, we have two houses to shovel and the typical delays accompanying a total of some 30″ of snow …

Stranger surfaces to paint on.

posted on October 13, 2009 in Analog, Murals and tagged , , , ,   1 Comment

I’ve never taken one of my finished paintings apart before– stretched, folded, rolled, shipped, framed, unframed, cut off the bars, glued down, all of these violences I have done to my creations but this was a new one on me. …

San Diego cityscape mural detail pictures

posted on October 11, 2009 in Analog and tagged , , , , , ,   2 Comments

I waded through some more photos of the mural project this morning here in Las Vegas hotel room before hitting the road again and found some fun detail shots that give a good idea of both how much detail I …

Mural paint sample approved this morning….

posted on September 23, 2009 in Analog, Custom Art, Murals and tagged , , ,    

This sample is on board approximately 30″ x 40″ using the full scale drawing prepared for the final surface

Sky Painting Show at Coalesce

posted on August 12, 2009 in Analog, Fine Art and tagged , , , ,    

In all the rush of deciding to move & finishing up various San Diego various projects, I forgot to post pictures of the sky painting show.

Updates for August 4, 2009

posted on August 4, 2009 in Analog, Updates and tagged    
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RT @johnlacey I love watching people make stuff. It doesn't matter what it is. Pottery, dance music, a painting, a birdbath. Fascinating. # way to go! @karensloan Received a great commission for a large painting today. Can breath a little …

Return to Sky Painting in the new studio

posted on July 2, 2009 in Analog, Fine Art, Video and tagged , , ,    
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Here’s a quick video I made about my new show of original paintings at Joseph Bedford’s gallery and furniture shop in Little Italy on July 1 as part of the new NoLi Nights. I started these paintings in 2007, part …