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Adam’s Apple (All American Style), Oil on Canvas

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Adam’s Apple
16″ Circle x 4″ Deep
Oil on Canvas
Custom Maple hardwood stretcher
Alternative subtitles; Circular Motion, The Calm Within the Storm
2008

This is one of several works I have been harnassing lately, trying desperately to capture the ideas amongst the tide against me. The focal point lately has been Olivia, the electric guitar, but I have had to provide some muse offerings to allow her to develop to her full potential.  My new goal is to bring her to life here.   My question always is, How would Magritte approach this? ~JH~

Breaking the Silence, Be Careful!

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I’ve been deep in the trenches it seems lately, but yet have forcefully managed to get some work done. This week was interesting, I was able to collect some perfect square stones from a mansion in Leesburg, they’ll make perfect stands for my bottle paintings.  ~~joey

ACEO - Limited Edition Art Cards, Binder Set

90 Card ACEO Limited Edition Binder Set
(total of 25 binder sets produced)
Joey Havlock, Artist

Includes 90 Limited Edition ACEO Cards
All cards are 2.5″ x 3.5″
All 90 cards are printed on heavy-duty, high quality, 80lb cotton duck canvas
All 90 cards in this binder set are signed and numbered on the reverse
All cards are stored in 9 card Ultra-Pro PVC Free Archival Pages
2008
ACEO stands for Art Cards Editions and Originals. They are very collectible and are wonderful framed.

ACEO - Limited Edition Binder with 90 Cards +Exclusive

 

New Fun in the eBay Store…

Now Available - A GIFT FROM MIND’S EYE - Hardcover Art Book

A new hardcover table-top art book, A Gift From Mind’s Eye, by Joey Havlock, is now available for purchase.

Printed: This 1st edition book is a beautifully presented casewrap-hardcover binding printed in vivid full-color.

Description:

A monograph by Joey Havlock. Presenting a unique selection of original paintings and designs from the Master Minds series of artworks. ~~ The gift from Mind’s Eye is the ability to dream…to imagine…to inspire the creation of new and better realities for the enlightenment of our own spirit as well as enrichment of the world around us.

To preview or purchase, click the book cover above or click HERE

My Alter Ego … or the struggle the find myself

Alter Ego
24″ x 24″
Oil on Masonite

An alter ego (Latin, “the other I”) is a second self, a second personality or persona within a person. It was coined in the early nineteenth century when schizophrenia was first described by early psychologists.[1]

The term alter ego is commonly used in literature analysis and comparison to describe characters who are psychologically identical, or sometimes to describe a character as an alter ego of the author, a fictional character whose behavior, speech or thoughts intentionally represent those of the author.

The characters Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde in Robert Louis Stevenson’s thriller Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde represent an exploration of the concept that good and evil exist within one person, constantly at war. Edward Hyde literally represents the doctor’s other self, a psychopathic being unrestrained by the conventions of civilized society, who shares a body with the doctor.

The Bartos Guitar, work in progress and the search for a title…

This is the most recent shot uploaded, this is the first layer of oil.  Everything here is just sketched in with a thin layer of oil so that the final layer can be positioned.  The horns have not been touched as of yet, they will be silver and will sparkle.

This was the head of this Dean Guitar before I did anything to it.

This was the head after I gave it an initial sanding so I could see the wood and what I was working with without the hardware.

This is the head after the wood sanding and with a first layer gesso applied.  Final sanding and sketching of the face ideas are starting to be laid in.

This was a rough in for the face done in acrylics.  I went back and forth many times to get the positioning right so that the hardware would interfere as little as possible with the final face.

I have recently been working on this commission project of a custom electric guitar.  I just added some pictures into the gallery of some of the progress. 

Though I am on the downhill slide with this work, which I must say I think is one of the best pieces I have ever worked on to date, I still have not decided on a title or name for the piece yet.

I purposely have not uploaded the most recent pictures because I dont want my collector to see the finished work online before experiencing her in person, but I will upload some additional shots as I go…

 

Isabella - The Painting … The Restaurant

Isabella, 18″ x 24″ x 2″, 2006, Oil on Canvas, Commissioned, Private Collection Kenyon Price, Isabella’s Frisco


ISABELLA’S

The Restaurant 

Italy Today is a blend of old and new, traditional and modern. Isabella’s is a unique dining concept, featuring Italian Cuisine from four regions in Italy . Lombardia, Piemonte, Toscana & Veneto. Isabella’s delivers cuisine that is unique in preparation, modern in style, yet classic by foundation

1279 Legacy Drive at Suite 100 (at 121 Highway & Legacy Drive)  Located at the New Stonebriar Commons on Legacy & 121, Frisco, TX

Reservations: 214-618-3384

Isabella’s Restaurant is OPEN for Lunch Dinner, & Sunday Brunch!

http://www.isabellasfrisco.com

Man Ray forgeries exposed

by Walter Robinson, artnet.com editor 


An imitation
Larmes
1930-33
 

A long-running art forgery operation, which produced high-quality “vintage” Man Ray photographs, has been uncovered by the German photographer and collector Werner Bokelberg. The fakes include Man Ray’s most famous images from the 1920s and ’30s, including La Marquise Casati (1922), Noire et blanche (1926) and Larmes (1930-33). Bokelberg, who has assembled a large collection of 19th- and early 20th-century photographs and began collecting Man Ray in the 1970s, became suspicious at the increasing availability of such an unusually large selection of classic, and rare, Man Ray images. “It was too good to be true,” he told ArtNet. “I could have any picture I wanted.”


A fake of
Man Ray’s
La Marquise Casati
1922

Full text article…

http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/robinson/robinson12-2-97.asp

Mind Pathology 101

Mind Pathology 101

Originally uploaded by joeyhavlock

“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making the, changes both the maker and the destination.” - John Schaar

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