Nathan Veldhoen

Photos from yesterday for today.  Shots around my house, went for a wonder.  Got some happy shots before it started pissing rain.  Will be adding some pix to our stock digital downloads section on TAPO.

This was the display window @ Champagne and Lace, with some reflection off the street.

Interesting house just down the street from me, the roof is just weird.

The old court house at the end of my street, shot first thing in the morning.

Been playing around with a few ideas for wood frames, and different ways to present art.  In a previous post I had some fun with chemical stain and good old fire.  Some shots of what the original frame looks like with out fire with a different piece.  Looking for some feedback…which is better.   These pieces have been added to the ART PRO.  If you want one, try out our new ordering system, its pretty mental, in a good way.

Main Landing Page

After almost a year of testing, trying, searching, and coding, we have our new Art Project Online store up and running.  Its a stronger platform with a lot more flexibility, as well as a better layout and strong usability.  We are using the latest and one of the strongest e-carts on the net helping us deliver the Art Project Online the best way possible.

The new Features:

-Downloads in the Digital Section. if buy the digital image and we will send a link and you can get it printed yourself as many times with as many as sizes you wish.

-Sharing feature for friends and family on all products

-Easy Newsletter sign ups, for sales, shows, and new additions.  This is right off our main page.

-Wish list for any art or images you like, like a favorites area.

-Product size selections on prints.

-Double clicking feature for larger image viewing.

Still might have bugs or spelling, gammar, so pass that on if you see any.

I kinda missed posting this since I have been away for awhile but it started on November 27th til the 19th of Dec @ deluge Contemporary Art in Victoria, BC.  I have 4 pieces up as well as 15 other artists in this cool little gallery.  If your on the island, go check it out.

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gallery is at 636 Yates Street, Victoria, BC

Show Poster

Images that are at the show.

Here are some shots from last  weekend.  Headed over to the island last week and found some good spots.  Pretty happy with a few shots, enjoy.

Interesting vending machine

Chinatown in Victoria

This was a week before Halloween at Value Village...luck I guess no one was in the image.

Busy everywhere but the baby cloths

little alley in the between chinatown

Just after the skinny alley

Trying to get training back on track after a crazy wedding weekend.  One more work week then it will be Victoria time.  Getting pretty amped up, should be a good race and hopefully the weather will be as good as this last weekend.

I didn’t get a chance to put these photos up but here are some shots from Thursday morning.  I don’t think I have ever seen light like this.  I was loosing my mind when I saw it, and was so stoked when I saw my camera in the backseat.

Some shots from friday night.  Fun time, good turn out and all around great event.  Some great feed back and thanks for all who attended. Can’t wait for our next show.

Month Long show is up til the 30th of September. We are hoping to do an opening reception on the 18th starting a 9pm, so if you haven’t been to see whats up on the walls –come out and check it out. Here are shots of whats up!

Trying to get everything loaded up and ready.  Having some fun getting everything ready.  Few shots of whats going down.  Studio is getting a little full.  Tuesday is going to come fast.

Placing some imagery together for the upcoming show for the month of  September, and had a bit of a slow down.  Ended up shipping a few images off to the press tonight.  See how everything matches up and how well the colors look hopefully tomorrow night.  I am doing something similar to what I did for the show in Calgary but with a little different technique and a few more steps.  :: link ::

Here are the  images I am currently working with and hopefully by friday I’ll have a pretty good idea of an end result.  I’ll show all the steps once everything is put together.

Yours truely and four other artists are hitting up The Fall Gallery @ 644 Seymour St, in the heart of Vancouver, BC for the month of September.  Stop in if your in or around the downtown core.  I’ll have all new work with some sneak peaks later on next week.

Added a bit more to the fridge.  I think I am done, for now…

Pretty solid weekend in Calgary, AB for our big art show.  Had great weather and the drive went pretty good.  We also didn’t have to haul too much art home since we got rid of some inventory while we were there.  Not too much to say but it was pretty rocking and the morning came too quick.  I think the show finally got shut down around 2:00-3:00 am, somewhere in that area.  Good space, and a pretty good location.  We hope to have future shows there, so stay tuned.  Pictures below are taken by Grubbe. check his flickr out!

Winding down.

Outside looking in.

Showtime

Dealin

www.theartprojectonline.com we added a new front page artist to the site…check it out.

We got in Thursday night and hit Artlife Friday afternoon to hit the walls with our Art.  Things turned out really well, and the space was amazing for our little show.  I still have to get show images up but here are some shots of what we had to deal with as well as some of the set up to get the show ready.

Store Front Friday Afternoon

The Space before we started hanging.

My Shit on the Wall

Getting things in Place...

Artlife is located  at 1312 1st SW Calgary Alberta Canada.  Website is here.

Gearing up for the big show tonight at 8 in Calgary, arrived in Calgary last night at around 7 after some craziest from the night before.  Wednesday night we had a lot of work to do, from getting everything packed up, to me trying to get my three pieces looking right.  I had some issues in the beginning but got everything ironed out by the time the midnight bell sounded.

I tried to show most of the process of how I got to my final product.  The last step was probably my favorite, after nearly lighting my house on fire.  Wasn’t the best idea to play with fire on a dry treated wood deck.

The Glaze test

Extending the piece on the plywood

Glazing the photo to the plywood

After it has dryed

Framed and Flamed