entries sorted by the tag San Diego
Level One Art Installation
posted on November 3, 2011 in Digital, Facebook, Small Business Websites, WordPress websites
and tagged artist portfolio, San Diego, wordpress
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WordPress portfolio for art installation specialist, helping them capitalize on 20 years of success to expand brand awareness & client base
Polished plaster ceiling
posted on April 22, 2011 in Analog, Faux Finishes
and tagged ceiling finish, Frank Hope, piano room, San Diego, venetian plaster
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This polished plaster ceiling is designed to add a jewel box type of glow & resonance to the room commensurate with the grand piano itself.
Scenic painting: San Diego, Los Angeles
posted on March 4, 2011 in Analog, Faux Finishes, Scenic Painting
and tagged Faux Painting, San Diego, SeaWorld
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I worked as a scenic artist in San Diego & Los Angeles both after moving to San Diego in 1999, including this painting gig at SeaWorld.
ART NOW SAN DIEGO
posted on February 21, 2011 in Digital, Twitter
and tagged Art Business, MCASD, San Diego, social media, Website Content
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This is my first significant Twitter project, and where I’ve tried out a lot of tools, strategies, met a lot of people, and learned a lot about social engagement.
Sky Paintings 2005-2009
posted on January 29, 2011 in Analog, Fine Art
and tagged Art Portfolio, San Diego, Sky Paintings, tuscany
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The body of work I was developing independently of commissioned artwork in San Diego before moving to Pittsburgh in the fall of 2009.
Old School Chargers and Padres Logos at Lucky D’s
posted on December 13, 2010 in Analog, Murals
and tagged Chargers, Faux Painting, Mural Painting, Padres, San Diego
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Custom mural painting for a restaurant in San Diego features faux antique style mural painting to render old school sports logos for local pro teams.
In honor of Franco's retirement this month, I'm reprinting this post on his San Diego show from The Frame Maker blogs I kept in 2008-2009.
My interview on ArtRocks! Radio from summer 2009
posted on November 6, 2010 in Digital, Teaching
and tagged ArtRocks radio, interview, mp3, San Diego
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... talking about marketing art and art events online, and my marketing training for artists here at the San Diego Finishing School.
San Diego Mural Video Trailer #1
posted on November 4, 2010 in Analog, Custom Art, Digital, Murals, Video
and tagged Architectural Drawing, Mike Brown, San Diego
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Trailer of coming time-lapse documentary film of my 2009 San Diego cityscape mural painting project.
Mural painting film preview & premiere
posted on October 29, 2010 in Analog, Custom Art, Digital
and tagged Architectural Drawing, San Diego, vertical blinds, wall mural
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Architectural rendering has been central to my work in the entertainment industry and many of my trompe l’oeil mural designs.
Archive: 2009 Art Show, Little Italy, San Diego
posted on October 15, 2010 in Analog, Fine Art
and tagged Art Galleries, Little Italy, San Diego, Sky Paintings
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Spent a couple hours of this gorgeous San Diego Sunday in the studio working on the sky paintings for the show with Joe Bedford.
Archive: chalk painting, Little Italy, San Diego 2003
posted on October 7, 2010 in Analog, Chalk Painting
and tagged Little Italy, michelangelo, Public Art, San Diego, trompe l'oeil
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one of my favorite projects from years of chalk painting in San Diego’s Little Italy every October until leaving for Pittsburgh last year.
Resetting the stage, one year later.
posted on October 7, 2010 in Social Media for Businesses, Video
and tagged business consulting, Faux Finish, Faux Painting, Painting, San Diego
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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 …
Jessica Siemens
posted on July 26, 2010 in Digital, Social Media for Businesses, Teaching, WordPress websites
and tagged artist portfolio, artist sites, business strategy, professional training, San Diego
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Artist portfolio site developed in WordPress as part of an artist marketing training program for an incredibly talented young painter, Jessica Siemens.
Public Art Installation & Dedication Speech
posted on July 16, 2010 in Analog, Public Art
and tagged Public Art, San Diego, speaking, tile mosaics
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This picture of me speaking at the dedication of my San Diego public art project in 2006 has been my social media profile picture forever.
Mural painting finally in Pittsburgh- sort of.
posted on May 26, 2010 in Analog, Custom Art, Murals, Project Design
and tagged Murals, nova color paint, Pittsburgh, San Diego
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next post in series of mural I’m painting right now in Pittsburgh studio & (ironically enough) shipping back to San Diego for installation!
Archive: Chalk painting with Hunter
posted on May 18, 2010 in Analog, Chalk Painting
and tagged Hunter, Little Italy, San Diego
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Just rediscovered this picture I love from 2008 of us in Little Italy San Diego and had to post.
Public art: Cesar Chavez tile mosaic mural #2
posted on March 29, 2010 in Analog, Project Design, Public Art
and tagged Cesar Chavez, San Diego, tile mosaics, Trolley Station
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Here is the second eight-foot tile mosaic panel I designed & produced for the Cesar Chavez Station public art project in San Diego.
Interact Now!
posted on February 21, 2010 in Digital, WordPress websites
and tagged San Diego, SEO, social media, Website Content
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Corporate identity development and search engine optimization through custom WordPress design.
Set in to custom made concrete benches, there are a total of 14 different mosaic designs in this picture of the eastbound trolley platform.
Faux stone entry | main archway
posted on February 14, 2010 in Analog, Faux Finishes
and tagged archway, Faux Stone, San Diego
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This picture just captures the shady & stately interior feel in pleasant contrast to its splashy views of San Diego bay.
Cesar Chavez tile mosaic installation
posted on February 5, 2010 in Analog, Custom Art, Project Design, Public Art
and tagged Cesar Chavez, San Diego, tile mosaics, Trolley Station
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Public art, design & production services for the City of San Diego 2004-2006.
Return to the vertical blind cityscape mural
posted on February 3, 2010 in Analog, Murals
and tagged Murals, Pittsburgh, San Diego, vertical blinds, wall mural
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This is the left “panel” finished on the shop floor. There are sixty actual blinds making up the paint surface/image plane in this photo.
Benchmark Project Installation, 2003
posted on January 25, 2010 in Analog, Custom Art
and tagged Benchmark project, Botticelli, Custom Art, Public Art, San Diego
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Me and my “Three Graces Bench” after installation for the Benchmark Project during 2003 Super Bowl in San Diego.
Archive: Chalk painting San Diego, 2002
posted on January 24, 2010 in Analog, Chalk Painting
and tagged Botticelli, Little Italy, San Diego
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Predictably, I didn’t screw around my first time, taking on a Botticelli Madonna, generating a full size drawing on paper ahead of time…
Scenic painting, San Diego in the year 2000
posted on January 24, 2010 in Analog, Scenic Painting
and tagged east village, San Diego, Scenic Art
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Heather and I were subletting space in the brick building on 10th Street in East Village San Diego that is now Cowboy Star.
Archive: Chalk painting, Little Italy 2002
posted on January 22, 2010 in Analog, Chalk Painting
and tagged Botticelli, Little Italy, San Diego
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My first chalk painting piece in Little Italy’s annual sidewalk chalk festival, back in the day when your chunk of asphalt was 9′ x 12′.
Custom art for the Benchmark Project
posted on December 29, 2009 in Analog, Custom Art, Public Art
and tagged Benchmark project, Botticelli, painted furniture, Public Art Project, San Diego
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Finally found the folder with the original images from this custom art project done for the Benchmark Project in San Diego during the 2003 Super Bowl festivities…
Richard Serra | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
posted on December 14, 2009 in Analog, Custom Art, Fine Art
and tagged MCASD, picture-framing, Richard Serra, San Diego
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Most don’t know how much time I’ve spent in the custom picture framing world. I’ve had the privilege to work with a lot of amazing art…
Polished venetian plaster wall finish
posted on December 8, 2009 in Analog, Custom Art, Faux Finishes
and tagged Art Gallery, concrete, San Diego, venetian plaster, wall finishes
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these venetian plaster wall panels were designed to resemble rough or raw concrete ground down and polished for the backdrop of an art gallery in a contemporary private home.
Faux Painting at SeaWorld San Diego
posted on December 7, 2009 in Analog, Scenic Painting
and tagged Faux Painting, San Diego, Scenic Painting, SeaWorld
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The idea of this faux finish was that the tower belonged in the city of the sea people who performing the “Cirque de la Mer” show, and had been dragged up from the ocean depths…
Tile mosaic bench installation
posted on December 7, 2009 in Analog, Project Design, Public Art
and tagged Cesar Chavez, San Diego, tile mosaics, Trolley Station
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More pictures never before published of the Cesar Chavez Trolley Station public art project, setting the tile mosaic benches in place.
Cesar Chavez tile mosaic installation
posted on December 6, 2009 in Analog, Public Art
and tagged San Diego, tile mosaics, Trolley Station
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Here’s anothe rview of some of the smaller benches. I liked the abstract quality of the “spring” rain-on-new-fields panel on the foreground triangular bench. All of the smaller benches are agriculturally themed, while the long benches visible in the background …
Cesar Chavez Trolley Station tile mosaic murals
posted on December 4, 2009 in Analog, Public Art
and tagged Cesar Chavez, Public Art, San Diego, tile mosaics, Trolley Station
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Here the single seat concrete benches are seen with tile mosaics installed & curing, waiting for final placement at the trolley station.
Scenic painting | SeaWorld, San Diego
posted on December 2, 2009 in Analog, Scenic Painting
and tagged Faux Painting, Faux Stone, San Diego, SeaWorld
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This is a one day bit of faux stone painting fun on the SeaWorld installation in San Diego.
Venetian plaster with a twist
posted on December 2, 2009 in Analog, Custom Art, Faux Finishes
and tagged Faux Finishes, fireplace, interior design, San Diego, venetian plaster, wall finishes
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I love this embedded venetian plaster job, and I never miss a chance to share this testimonial from a San Diego client in 2006.
Scenic painting | Viejas Casino and Outlet Center
posted on November 30, 2009 in Analog, Faux Finishes, Scenic Painting
and tagged San Diego, showcourt, viejas casino
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I spent a few weeks here first in the fall of 2001 with a crew of six faux painting these huge fiberglass clad “logs” to look like wood.
Scenic painting | SeaWorld San Diego
posted on November 30, 2009 in Analog, Scenic Painting
and tagged Faux Stone, San Diego, Scenic Painting, SeaWorld
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I worked as scenic artist on the set in LA studios, then led scenic painting touch-up & tie-in work at installation site in San Diego.
Chalk painting at San Diego’s Little Italy Festa
posted on November 12, 2009 in Analog, Chalk Painting
and tagged Little Italy, San Diego, starry night, van gogh
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This version of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” is approximately 8′ wide and 6′ high and took one sunny Sunday to create…
San Diego cityscape mural detail pictures
posted on October 11, 2009 in Analog
and tagged Coronado Island, Custom Mural, Mural Project, Painting, Pt Loma, Residential Building, San Diego
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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 …
San Diego cityscape mural pictures
posted on October 10, 2009 in Analog, Custom Art, Murals, Project Design
and tagged Custom Mural, Iwata Paint Guns, nova color paint, San Diego, vertical blinds
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These were taken from the ladder we set up in the shop, & show better detail of both mural image and mural surface…
Cityscape mural complete!
posted on October 8, 2009 in Analog, Custom Art, Murals
and tagged San Diego, vertical blinds
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With the exception of my iPhone dying last Saturday, the San Diego city mural is now complete and installed with a minimum of hassle.
open studio for mural project tonight.
posted on October 3, 2009 in Analog, Custom Art, Murals
and tagged Art Reception, Mural Painting, open studio, San Diego
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screening the first cut of the time lapse video documenting my progress painting the mural. Here’s a couple mural painting process shots…
San Diego cityscape mural takes shape.
posted on September 26, 2009 in Analog, Custom Art, Murals
and tagged Mural Painting, San Diego, vertical blinds
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Photos from the first two days of actually putting paint on the vertical blind “canvas” itself, after a week plus of prep.
creating full size drawings as templates/tools/patterns to produce a tight, accurate architectural drawing on a regularly uneven surface.
Back for more San Diego mural
posted on September 14, 2009 in Analog, Murals
and tagged Mike Brown, Pittsburgh, Point Breeze, San Diego, Skyscrapers, wall mural
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highlight of mural prep last week: Friday night visit to the top of 501 West Broadway with photog Mike Brown to research the missing view
San Diego mural design with a side trip to Pittsburgh
posted on September 13, 2009 in Analog, Murals
and tagged Architectural Drawing, Pittsburgh, San Diego, vertical blinds, wall mural
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Red and purple sunrise, Charlotte International Airport, North Carolina: My time-zone challenged body sits here typing, gathering pics…
San Diego to Pittsburgh- and back again.
posted on September 3, 2009 in Analog, Updates
and tagged Mural Project, Pittsburgh, Point Breeze, San Diego, trompe l'oeil
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I’m on the road with Heather’s Subaru full of stuff, Raul and myself headed to Pittsburgh and our new set-up there. Heather and the kids flew ahead and signed the lease on our new place while spending a few days …
Mural project at Cafe Mundo
posted on August 20, 2009 in Analog, Murals
and tagged Artwalk, jessica-siemens, Little Italy, San Diego
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I’m working with artist Jessica Siemens, whom I mentored earlier this spring in the business of art using blogging and social media.
Sky Painting Show at Coalesce
posted on August 12, 2009 in Analog, Fine Art
and tagged Furniture, Little Italy, Painting, San Diego, Sky Paintings
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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.
I’m going to put up more of this stuff on my actual mural and faux painting blog, but since I started here and I’m still screwing with the social media hook ups, I’m putting these up here first as an …
Final San Diego mural, faux painting projects
posted on August 8, 2009 in Analog, Murals
and tagged banker's hill, cafe mundo, mural design, San Diego
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this month I’m working on my final mural and faux painting project in San Diego.
John Hiemstra, scenic artist
posted on July 29, 2009 in Digital, Search Engine Optimization
and tagged artist portfolio, artist sites, business strategy, San Diego
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latest incarnation of my own online portfolio for custom art, murals and faux finish work.
Even though it was a bit of a family vacation in Pittsburgh last week after the opening of our show at Coalesce last Friday, I worked enough to get the next round of art and business-of-art classes published on the …
The Frame Maker
posted on June 27, 2009 in Digital, Search Engine Optimization, Small Business Websites
and tagged San Diego, SEO, Website Content
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The Frame Maker site was written by hand in CSS/HTML back in 2008 and incorporates three different WordPress blogs, each devoted to different focus area of a premium picture framing business in San Diego: local art events (many of …
Dot connection
posted on May 6, 2009 in Fine Art
and tagged Art Marketing, artist sites, Little Italy, proprietor, restaurant, San Diego
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Now that's a creative community working together.
San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival
posted on November 18, 2006 in Analog, Custom Art
and tagged featured artist, Little Italy, San Diego, wine
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Last weekend’s San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival was a blast for me as “official” festival artist.
