Creative Communication

21/12/2023

This Christmas season, Sky Elements attempted two GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ titles with ur 1,500 drone Nutcracker Christmas show. Will it be enough to set the ...

20/12/2023

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
Edith Sitwell

Eduard Hein - Winter in the woods ,1890-1910.

18/12/2023

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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25/11/2023

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25/11/2023

05/11/2023

Georges Seurat, The Seine at Courbevoie

04/11/2023

Located on forested land along the Humber River, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection is uniquely de

04/11/2023

, 122 years ago…
🎂 to the American illustrator:

👨🏻‍🎨 Harry BECKHOFF
* 2 November 1901 in Perth Amboy, NJ.
✞ 3 January 1979 in Connecticut.

The Rule Book, Acushnet advertisement.
Gouache and collage on board
14.25 x 8.75 inches.
📍Private collection.
Photo credit: Heritage Auction ⓒ

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Beckhoff studied at the Artist Students League under George Bridgeman who taught Norman Rockwell along with a host of of other well known painters and illustrators, such as Harvey Dunn, Dean Cornwell and others. Fellow students with Beckhoff at the ASL were Mead Schaeffer, Saul Tepper and Dan Content, all who became well known and respected during the Golden Age of magazine illustrations.

Harry Beckhoff was very much influenced by French artists, Charles Martin, Andre Marty and Pierre Brissaud, whose work could often be seen in Vogue, Home and Garden and Harper’s Bazaar. Beckhoff had a unique approach to executing his work: he would do small but very accurate thumbnails (that even included clearly defined facial expressions) which he would blow up to about five times their original size and then ink in their outlines. He then added tone and colour with flat washes. One of his friends and fellow artist who never seized to be amazed by Beckhoff’s method was James Montgomery Flagg.

In 1929, Beckhoff’s very first magazine illustration was published in The Country Gentleman.
In the early 1940's Harry Beckhoff illustrated what must have been an extremely lucrative series of ads for Birds Eye frozen foods that regularly appeared in the front pages of Life magazine.

For over half a century Harry Beckhoff would illustrate hundreds of periodicals and dozens of advertisements but he is mostly remembered for illustrating those lovable, wonderful Broadway characters by the famous writer Damon Runyon in Collier’s.

04/11/2023

I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it. ~Joan Didion

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(Art: Photograph by Ted Streshinsky)

01/11/2023

17/10/2023

"Inner Glow" Created using Omnigeometry software. Art by

17/10/2023

Franklin Carmichael, member of the Group of Seven

"October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came -
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band."
George Cooper - October's Party.

Franklin Carmichael - Autumn Hillside, 1920.

17/10/2023

Felix Heuberger

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
J.R.R. Tolkien - from The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954.

Felix Heuberger - Lake in the Moonlight, 1930.

17/10/2023

Maxfield Parrish

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anaïs Nin

Maxfield Parrish - Hilltop, 1926.

12/10/2023

“There are fractal codes containing the laws of creation and the more we understand these laws the more we can apply the harmony that is apparent in nature as a more powerful force in our own lives. There is truth and purity in natural things and our contact with them nourishes the soul and illumines the mind." –
Jonathan Quintin

12/10/2023

"Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently." – Benoît Mandelbrot

11/10/2023

Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920)
Source: Wiki Art

06/10/2023

Georgia O’Keeffe

“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.”
Ralph Marston

Georgia O’Keeffe - Petunias, 1925.

03/10/2023

Andrew Wyeth - Christina’s World - She could not walk and rather than use a wheelchair, she would crawl everywhere.

“Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
Robert Frost - from, Nothing Gold Can Stay.

Andrew Wyeth - Christina’s World, 1948.

19/09/2023

Watercolor by Canadian artist Lyse Marion

18/09/2023

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13/09/2023

Maxfield Parrish 'The Mill Pond,' 1945

07/09/2023

“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, 1847.

Vincent Van Gogh - Starry Night, 1889.

07/09/2023

Beautiful sense of twilight to this work by Justyna Kopania.

07/09/2023

DAILY ART QUOTE!

"The Achilles heel of an artist lies in the hope that his art is good." Kapil Gupta

Image by Daniel Garber (1880-1958), American Impressionist landscape painter

01/09/2023

Explore some 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 that poets use to add emotions, color, vitality, breathtaking spirit, a symphony of sounds, artistry, unique feelings, and power to poetry.
By Anatomy of Literature
Muhammad Shahid Hussain

02/08/2023

Matt Haig

“Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.”
Matt Haig - Reasons to Stay Alive, 2015.

Eugen Krüger - Deer in the Forest.

02/08/2023

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust

Gustav Klimt - Farm Garden with Sunflowers, 1913.

02/08/2023

Jennifer Taylor

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
~ Nora Roberts

~ Art 'Sanctuary of Sapphire' by Jennifer Taylor

19/06/2023

The Golden Forest by timemit not Gustav Klimt
A big thank you to Taddeo De Polo for finding the source of this.

14/06/2023

"My destination is no longer a place,
rather a new way of seeing."
Marcel Proust

Maxfield Parrish - Sunrise, 1933.

10/12/2022

Congratulations to the AFI AWARDS 2022 honorees! The honorees include 10 outstanding films and 10 outstanding TV programs deemed culturally and artistically representative of this year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image. An additional honoree was selected for an AFI Spe...

10/12/2022

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider." ~ Francis Bacon
Book: https://amzn.to/3B4707x
The Essays of Francis Bacon

10/12/2022

These beautiful textile maps of Pakistan and India show off embroidery techniques and hand-woven fabric across the countries.