odds and ends: germ of artistic talent and other things

This is an assortment of art related items I've come across.
The first one I'm surprised hasn't gone "viral" - using microbes as painters and petri dishes as canvases to create pictures, sometimes duplicating classic works of art. This is a contest sponsored by the American Society of Microbioligists . I came across this when I same a post showing a multi-petri dish version of Starry Nights

Here are some of the winners

submitted by Mehmet Berkmen of New England Biolabs, with artist Maria Penil

 Harvest Season, created by Maria Eugenia Inda, a postdoctoral researcher from Argentina working at Cold Spring Harbor Labs.F
For more of this year's entries check out 2015 Agar art entries

I went to see the new home of the Whitney Museum of American Art in the Meatpacking District in New York. They did a great ob of the building. The main galleries are on floors 5-8, each with outdoor patios with stunning vistas of lower New York Harbor and the Freedom Tower. Beautiful!

 and if your hungry, the Meatpacking District in full of places to eat. My favorite is a food court type of place called the Gansevoort Market

Its also at the end of the new High Line Park, an old railroad elevated track between 34th and 14 Streets. It was derelict for years and was about to be torn down, when the idea sprung up to make it a park and it been a big hit ever since. You'll find lots of local art, a food court and many places to sit and watch people pass. Since the Food Network headquarters is near by, you may see a favorite chef or two pass by.

and finally a few  art memes, posters and interesting pictures
                                                        as if the city is not noisy enough

New Painting: Bailey Island Sunrise - Maine

Love doing sunrise and sunsets, especially over oceans and seaports. This is a sunrise on a Bailey Island lobster fishing dock and popular restaurant in Maine. I got this from a photographers page on FB, but I seem to have lost the reference to it. As usual, you can buy Mugs and bags with this image on it.

Currently on my easel - Bailey Island, Maine sunrise

This is a picture I got from Facebook showing Cooks Lobster House on Bailey Island in Maine. Love sunrises and sunsets and Maine and Cook's Lobster

Art cartoon - Art Colony infestation

Gotta watch out for those artists colonies popping up all over the place

New painting: Nantucket Harbor Sunset

Nantucket is a favorite place of mine. I get there once a year for a bike riding weekend in September and stay in the hostel. This is a photo from The Nantucket Blackbook page run by Nantucket blogger Holly Finigan who is  becoming more and more a social arbiter  on the island, sort of thier own Anna Wintour. Check out her website NantucketblACKbook
Nantucket Harbour Sunset. 11 x 14 oil on canvas board. As usual you can buy a bag or mug
from Zazzle

FBH Summer Art Gallery 2015 3nd exhibition

This is the third exhibition in this year's Summer Art Gallery, which I curate at my church. I posted this "press release" in the church's bulletin, FB and Twitter pages. I will also post this on Instagram.

Press release
From: Office of The Curator
Subject: 2015 Summer Art Gallery 3nd exhibition
For: Immediate release
The Curator is pleased to announce the third exhibition in the FBH Summer Art Gallery, a venue for the display of the many artistic talents of the members of FBH. Current exhibitors:

The Art of Olivia Grace Feliciano
We have several works by Olivia. She is an eight year old who is trying to find her artistic voice.
Alex (Alexandra) Ward (following is her artist statement. Alex is 13)
My name is Alex Ward and art is my favorite subject, because it always inspires me. I normally draw abstract art but sometimes like reusing cardboard to create 3D figures. Last year I got a bunch of patterned duct tape, and now I am obsessed with it. I like to make hair bows out of duct tape and update my clothes with it too. I’ve been doing art since I was about 2 years old and I loved it then and now. My dream is to inspire other kids to be happy making art.

New painting: Rose Family Christmas Cove Table at Sunset.

New painting: Rose Family Christmas Cove Table at Sunset. This is a commissioned work for Rich Rose and family. I know them from First Baptist Hackensack and they now live in Norfolk Va, but have a family compound in Christmas Cove, Maine. I saw this picture on his FB page while ago and said I might want to paint this. More recently, I painted a picture his daughter took of lobster shack and he reminded me of this picture. So here it is.