Art & Photography

Make Your Own Monoprint | Two Smart Dogs

Arts Celebration Day and Monoprint Demonstration
Featuring visiting artist Jonathon Blum
JennyBec’s, Santa Monica, CA
Saturday, June 7, 11am-6pm
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Top Four Books (and a Website) for Beginning Graphic Designers | Doug Clouse

These books and website are important and helpful for those who want to learn about design basics and be graphic designers, and can supplement any design fundamentals class.

1. Basic Visual Concepts and Principles for Artists, Architects, and Designers by Charles Wallschlaeger and Cynthia Busic-Snyder (1992) More

Any Excuse to be in Tahiti | Two Smart Dogs

In case your local landscape no longer inspires you to paint, the Art Trek company offers a nine-day watercolor painting trip to Tahiti and Huahine islands in French Polynesia. There are two excursions on the books for 2008: one from July 17-27, coinciding with the Heiva Polynesian dance festivities, and one from August 7-17.
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Drawing Room | Christian Chensvold

Image by BAC student Robert Kane

Learning to see the world as a series of lines and shapes is the first step in becoming an artist. And developing this basic skill is more popular than ever at the Brentwood Art Center, where beginning and advanced students alike are signing up for classes in the fundamentals of drawing. More

Undercover Art | Two Smart Dogs

Test your knowledge of contemporary artists at INCOGNITO, an innovative benefit exhibition and art sale at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, on Saturday, May 3, from 7 to 9:30 pm. The annual INCOGNITO exhibition has become a must-attend event for contemporary art lovers in Southern California.
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