Website
Phew! Well, I decided I couldn’t wait anymore on my website with all the publicity I am doing for the show, so I have purchased a hosting deal with dynadot who are my URL providers. I am not leaving Liquidpurple. I love Liquidpurple but I needed something up and running. now if you go to http://www.jennierosenbaum.com you will see my site. now with added show details!
I am painting like crazy. I have let the ‘ol blog slip a bit because I am either painting or publicizing or breathing. I will try to post more, and more interesting stuff as well.
Real soon now 
Never mind..
Um, No sooner did I pose this question that I got an inspiration.. I am doing a delicate butterfly earring.. it has nice filigree detail and young colors and is a nice mix between the old and new. I am officially insane as it has a heck of a lot of detail but oh well
Call for Help!
This is one of the new paintings I have been working on, I am very excited by the idea of it and I like the texture that has evolved, but I need your help.
You remember how I want each piece to have an element of color? a bright spark in a different color to draw the eye and add visual impact. Well, I want to paint a beautiful piece of jewelry that symbolizes youth and beauty – but I’m stumped! I was thinking an earring of some type – but what? Do any of you have any ideas?
The Internet is really really great.. for What?
The net has not been my friend this week. My site is still down because of server upgrades and Telstra Bigpond have had a huge outage and my net is only just come back up.. and my eBay account got hacked! 
apparently I wanted to sell tons of iPods and change my email address 10 times. anyway. it’s all being handled. eBay’s account theft handling is convoluted but it works.
anyway, I have net back, I am currently redirecting my domain to my Boundless Gallery website and my paintings have already been delivered to my purchasers in the states! anyway, this non net time has been great for getting some things done. my press release is looking good and my newsletter is almost done. I have finished two of the paintings in my backlog and am feeling very creative.. I can’t wait to start on the next ones! Liam and I spoke to the guys at Dynamic tattoo about our ideas and they will be working up a custom. I am really looking forward to it. something about decorating myself with art just seems to right.
Still Procrastinating..
For the people who this it is all fun and games being an artist and the easiest job in the world, well phew! do I have news for you! Today I shipped the Two (count ‘em 2!) orders made through Boundless Gallery and bought more canvasses for the paintings I am doing for the upcoming show. I haven’t written my press release yet (still!) but I now have three works near completion. Then there is advertising, and more advertising for when I can’t stand anymore. Luckily I can lie down at my computer when I am exhausted and keep working..
I am thinking of adding some of the impasto paintings into the show as well for visual interest and difference and to save my poor bod. What do you think?
Tags: art, artist, career, exhibition, Painting
Bawdily Fluids
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC CONTENT AND DEPICTIONS THAT MAY DISTURB. Signs such as this are plastered all over P.S.1 Art Center’s exhibit “Into Me/Out of Me” in this MoMA-affiliated museum in Queens. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, it’s an audacious, exhilarating and occasionally nauseating group show, whose theme is all of what passes into and out of the human body.
ok, much of this show sounds incredibly gross but boy I’d love to see it! and big snaps for the Headline from the New York Blade.
Why do I look at things like this? It’s very simple, I am trying to gain marketing ideas and snap to add to my non-existient press release.
Tags: art, art news, exhibition, Nudes
Now Copyblogger is talking to me too!
5 Signs Your Blog Post Is Going Horribly Wrong | Copyblogger:
It happens to us all.
Fired up by a great idea, you sit down ready to crank out that killer post. But as you get farther into it, your enthusiasm is replaced by a sense of dread.
Clearly, you’re getting bogged down. You’re not sure what the problem is, but the piece is not coming together the way you thought it would.
I found this in my RSS feeds just now. Not only does it apply to the press release I am avoiding, but also to the work that I am painting currently. I am wondering how I would re-write this if I was to make it about painting.. It would probably be quite similar…
1. What’s the Point?
Go back to your original concept, strip it back and recall the original image behind it.
2. Who Cares?
What is the meaning behind this work? who will it appeal to? have you gotten bogged down by what you think others want?
3. Bad Chi
I personally believe a painting should have a lovely flow to it from the different focal points, lovely lines and curves that allow the eyes to flow around them. I also like to interrelate the shapes to each other creating flow that way.
4. Detail Dump
Detail is great but can weigh down a painting as well, know where to use detail and where to use beautiful simplicity.
5. The Rambling Road
Unify the parts of the painting – let every feature have a point and a purpose.
Yeah, probably something like that! This list from copyblogger is very good and I highly recommend it, I know I will be referring to it for my blogging.
Procrastination
urg, I am trying to write a press release.. It’s amazing how many things are more fun than writing marketing materials! finding the perfect ringtone.. blogging.. web research.. tv.. Must Write Release!
Painted last night and yesterday afternoon, One work is nearly done, one more glaze should do it- the second one was a bit harder to get out, especially for one that has been in my head for so long. I find, when an image has been plaguing me to get down on canvas I get so excited to put it down but I tend to be rougher on them- I think I am more critical when there is a clear image in my head.
Website Down
Liquid Purple are currently adding a new server which is great, but in the meantime it means my site is down which sucks. especially as I have some galleries I am talking to right now. The new upgrades are going to be brilliant, but I am a touch worried about what will happen to my site traffic momentum… I will update it when it is back up. Fingers crossed for a short Downtime!
W00T!
Some days it’s just not worth getting up.. Today was not one of those days!
The TAC payment seems to be finally sorted out and I awoke to an email from BoundlessGallery.com to tell me that I sold this painting! hooray! now I am looking into all my shipping options to send the piece to the States. It’s pretty damn cool.. and completely unexpected! I like the way Boundless have organized everything. good communication and information for everything,
I woke up feeling better too. Thanks to all my well wishers, now that everything has been adjusted it is settling down a bit, I am hoping that all my work trying to build up my strength will assist in a speedier recovery. I really want to get back into my studio and paint!!
Hype Revisited
Grr it sucks so much, I have had a major crash and have been bed-ridden again.. no painting! and what sucks more is I have so many ideas! I am working on a piece that I am thrilled with for the new show, and I have so many thoughts for this new series.. I am just itching to get up and paint!
My Chiropractor beat me up today, he went to a conference recently and decided today to address my skull. The whole thing is twisted since the accident and is sitting entirely wrong. I have never had my skull adjusted before and I never want to have it done again. I am feeling really nasty, sick and dizzy and sore.
I’m not sure how I am going to go with not publishing my paintings.. my blog looks so boring! I might publish sketches or sections of paintings.. what do you think?
Tags: CRPS, exhibition, musing, painting
How I am Going to Get What I Want.
My ongoing blog project 5 Simple Steps to Owning My Career has slowed down due to planning my new show but a new Group Blog Project over at ProBlogger has given me new impetus to move ahead. I have defined my Influences, my self and my goals, now it is time to move ahead with the exciting part, how to get what I want!
- Scout out galleries who like the sort of work I do and take emerging artists, then have the confidence to approach them and the confidence in myself to know that I deserve representation and support.
- Put together a sexy portfolio with my best works and information from my marketing kit.
- Be comfortable talking about my works, subject matter and personal beliefs. Show the passion I feel about my pieces and project that confidence – even if I don’t always feel it!
- Go to openings and exhibitions, be comfortable moving in the arts and collector circles.
- Keep updating my Mailing List
- Find out about Museum donation requirements, make a list and keep it updated.
- Talk to charitable foundations regarding donations, speaking and charitable auctions.
- Paint Paint Paint!
- Find contacts for newspapers, local papers and guides for publicity and exposure. maintain the list and send out regular press releases.
- Find or make opportunities to show and speak or publish.
- Keep improving with every painting
- Ask when I need help
- Keep building my physical strength so I don’t hold myself back
- Put myself forward!
- Realize that I am ready now – and not put off everything for the mythical time when I will be. if I am not now, then I never will be.
- Stop talking myself down
- Stop holding myself back
- Recognize opportunities and grasp them with both paint encrusted hands
Some of these things I am already doing, but this list will serve as a reminder of all the things I want to do to make my personal dreams come true.
Tags: artist, blog project, career, how to, musing, philosophy
The Universe is talking to me…
Do you ever get that feeling? Well, at TUTs Adventurers Club, you can sign up for Notes from the Universe. I recently heard about this and thought I might give it a burl. you can select when you receive mails and add a goal to have it all personalized. It sounds hokey but I have to admit that not a mail goes by that I don’t get a smile or a bit of a laugh. Here are some excerpts from a couple I have received..
And to answer the often unasked question, “Yes, you can still have it all, no matter what others in your life might think, say or do.”
Talk about multi-tasking -
The UniverseAnd to answer that other unasked question, Jennie, “No. It’s not OK to wrap them up in duct tape.”
It’s bizarre how it seems to know me..
Please, Jennie, don’t ever settle for less than what you really, really want.
I mean, what else am I going to do with all this stuff?
The Universe
Sure, I’d keep your studio, but the hula hoops, tutus and sparkly suits…?
I always get a bit of a lift from them, they are inspirational but not soppy and frequently have random silliness. they are a small random thing to look forward to each day 
Tags: artist, emotive, inspiration
What is a Nude?
“The nude is not the subject of subject of art, but a form of art.” So wrote Kenneth Clark, who distinguished in his great 1956 book “The Nude” between a naked body — that is, one merely caught without clothes on — and a nude, “the most complete example of the transmutation of matter into form.”
I just love this quote. It’s a beautiful definition of the nude art form. Nudes are currently quite fashionable and are gaining momentum in the art world and with collectors. The news is riddled with debates on this nude being too much and that nude being too little.. It’s all a bit crazy. I tend to wonder how it bodes for someone like me.. is there a bubble? will it burst? how will that affect me?
Tags: art, art news, exhibition, Nudes
Hype
I am so excited about this show, I have many ideas I can’t wait to see come into fruition. I am going to be a bit of a tease here and I am not necessarily going to post everything here or on my website. So you will have to come to see them I am very excited about working larger scale again. I am drawing at a mile a minute in my visual diary and am picking canvasses to fit the pieces perfectly. oh I am so excited! I may be doing a mixture of my ochre ones and impasto ones or not.. it depends how I go really…
hee hee! I’m off to paint! I’m doing fun glazing things.. and no you can’t watch! 
Veterans enjoy Nudity
Art’s elders still drawing life from a pad | The Arts | The Australian:
DOYENS of Australian art Charles Blackman and Judy Cassab might be a ripe old age – with two OBEs, an AO and two Archibald prizes between them – but they still get a thrill sitting down with sketch pads, pencils and a nude model.
Art Veterans that is. Many people see life drawing as something to do as a student, purely a learning exercise, but it’s great to hear that even the best artists still use and enjoy life drawing. I’d pay to be in on one of those sessions!
Tags: art news, artist, Figurative, Nudes
Here we Go Again!
You know how I said I wasn’t going to do another show until i had build a bigger body of work? um.. yeah.. Well, sometimes opportunities come along and they are just perfect. Sometimes, when fate bashes down your door you just have to grab it with both hands.
Northcote in September is home to the High Vibes Festival. For one day and evening High St lights up in a huge music festival. Last year had 90,000 visitors. High St Northcote is also home to Vanguard Gallery, who contacted me the other day to see if I was able to do a show from the 19th of September through to the 7th of October. I had concerns about being able to get a complete solo show ready in 5 weeks so, rather than compromise my vision, jeopardize my body or produce less than a-grade art I decided it would be best to work it as a group show. Eugene, the curator, hooked me up with two talented artists that he thought might mesh well and I think that this show is really going to Pop!
There will be two big nights. The opening and the High Vibes festival day. The festival will have a band going in the gallery and I am hoping it will be really big! The show will be running for 3 weeks and I already feel that I have made some better decisions. I have a strong vision for my paintings and am really hyped. I learned so much from the previous show that I will be able to bring to this one. I feel very well prepared- even if the show is on in just over a month.
Tags: Art, artist, exhibition, festival
Blog Project Update
I have not forgotten about my incomplete Blog Project BTW.. I am working out how to proceed on my next few posts. So far, I think I have helped myself out quite a bit. I have had a couple of business discussions lately and I am already feeling more empowered. Looking at my goals I am able to make my decisions better and I feel that my career is progressing. I have taken charge of it, and I think it has lent power and understanding in my dealings so far. I don’t want to compromise my career by working in a non productive way or by barreling into things without thinking.
I will be writing the next two posts very soon. Thankyou all for putting up with the previous posts, long though they were, Putting them up here has given me the impetus to think everything through and stick to my goals.
Tags: art, blog project, musing
Discordance
As I lie here, watching my current favorite musical Jerry Springer the Opera. I started pondering the concept of discordance and beauty.
Many of you know that I am a big musical fan. Now there are musicals from composers like Rogers and Hammerstein, Jerry Herman and such. These are beautiful musicals, rich with lovely characters. Then you have composers like William Finn and Richard Thomas. These are my absolute favorites. Why? because, rather than sticking to conventional modalities, subjects and chords they create a unique and unexpected version of a conventional art form and a new experience. The clashing chords, unexpected harmonies and lyrics can often make an uncomfortable listening experience for the average listener and don’t necessarily appeal to everyone but these compositions, to me, are an art form in themselves rather than just entertainment.
Models these days come in two basic types. There is the pretty and then there is the unusual. Some models have very unusual faces or proportions. They are the ones who catch our eyes because of their uniqueness, their unusual structure, their unconventional beauty that is slightly wrong or discordant.
When you hear a discordant note or choral piece and you feel the goosebumps rise on your flesh, that is the art working it’s way in. When you see a catwalk model with an unconventional face, who is a painting rather than a blank canvas, then we notice the uniqueness and feel drawn to it.
So what does this have to do with art? It comes down to my personal definition. Art isn’t necessarily pretty pictures, it isn’t always comfortable or perfect. The nature of imperfection frequently defines a piece, makes the viewer stop and take notice, to make their feelings and body react. Reaction doesn’t need to be positive, Not everyone needs to love a piece for it to be artistic. Dischords create resonance, and it’s that resonance that sticks with us and puts the goosebumps on our arms.
That, ultimately, is what I want to create with my artwork, a sense, a feeling, a unique interpretation of a classic artform.
Figurative lines
A new piece in this tactile impasto style. I am learning a whole lot working in this technique. It is a very precise technique where every line has to have a meaning. I’ve likened it to calligraphy before and that is exactly how I feel about it. every line has to have a purpose and be very precise. It looks very simple and fast, but, like a swan, there is a lot going on beneath the placid exterior.
The lines are sculpted (for lack of a better word) very fast. each one has to be a strong, confident stroke, twisting the knife to get different widths and effects. Little things can turn the knife, like the grain of the canvas or the texture of the paint, or often nothing at all. With something like this I will carve the form over and over again, smoothing it back and doing it again. sometimes I will get a section right and be able to leave it, but mostly the interrelations of the lines mean I frequently will need to do the entire figure over. The key frustration of this is that I might have a line that is good, but I will seek more from it and will erase it in the hopes that the next one will be perfect.
This gives a great insight into the nature of lines and form. What does each line mean, what does it suggest? if I turn my knife this way I can get a whole different feeling to that way.. what is needed to suggest this figure and to create the feeling I want? What will happen if I change this? Often I will let myself go and just sculpt until the figure leaps off the canvas. until it means something.
I’m always interested in your opinions and I don’t have a name for this one yet – it hasn’t told it’s name to me.. does it speak to you? what should I call it?
Experimenting again
I realized I don’t tend to do things in cool colors.. I wonder why that is? So I had a play again with this technique in cool colors cos.. well.. I should I guess. I don’t mind this one but I think I may have overthought it a little.. it seems to have lost some energy. Maybe it’s the cool colors I like the cross hatching around the face and under the bust on the outside and the way the hair turned out. but I am not nuts about some of the anatomy and the face. the hands were fun, but then.. hands are always fun!
I have some smaller scale canvasses and am going to do some smaller works. just for fun. Another thing I learned from the group show was that I wasn’t playing around enough I got a little stuck on what I thought I should do rather than going with the flow. It’s good to experiment with color, texture, tone and different techniques. abstraction and distortion are fun. I am definitely going to be playing more. I have a show theme in mind, but mostly it will evolve over time rather than being pushed. It will be unified by theme and texture but both categories are sufficiently large enough for plenty of variety.
Tags: art, Drawing, Figurative, Nudes, pastel
Experimenting
In line with my renewed interest in color and pastels I started experimenting with bizarre colors and a different drawing technique. This one is heaps of fun because it is done with many layered lines. It is so exciting to see the image emerge from nothing but straight lines and the mood change with different color additions.
This technique is great for loosening up and relaxing as well as seeing the disparate lines that make up an image. I asked myself, What makes a good nude image? I like to use rich curves and interconnecting lines and circles.. this is a departure from that to look at the lines themselves. to look at the connecting lines that are less obvious, to make the lines a feature. I want to play more with this and possibly look at taking it further in terms of color, building, abstraction and distortion. Layering the colors and lines more, creating more tonal differentiation and more background work, taking it to a more complete work. It is just too much fun, so energetic. Less sensual, more frenetic and very interesting!
Tags: Drawing, Figurative, Nudes, pastel
5 Simple Steps to Owning My Career – Step 3: Goals
Step 3 in my blog project is where we start actually exploring what I want. We’ve established the type of people who inspire me and who I am, Now we need to work out what I really want from myself and my career.
Obviously I want to be filthy rich and live in an enormous mansion with servants to do my bidding and attend my every whim. now that we’ve got that out of the way.. what do I really want? I am going to break this into groups to keep my goals organized. I want to get really specific here. Apparently one of the keys to success (one I hear over and over again) is to have a very clear visualization of your goals and to see yourself achieving them.
Career Goals
- Collected by museums
- Worldwide recognition (not necessarily household name, but certainly known in art circles)
- Presence in publications
- Demand for my work
- Worldwide travel for my art exhibitions, speaking engagements and for inspiration and residencies
- Controversy. I don’t want to be run of the mill, I want to spark debate and intrigue and stand out from the crowd
- A nice big studio, with some nice furniture and a comfy couch for me to rest on. also good storage, quality materials and excellent light
- Assistant(s) for stretching, priming, color blending and blocking as well as helping me out physically and handling calls so I have time to create
- The chance to live forever. I want that shot. I think all artists do
Art Goals
- Recognizable works
- My Own Style
- Unique perspectives and interpretations
- Continual growth in perception, techniques and styles
- I want to progress and learn and make each piece better than the last
- To learn more about myself
- To inspire others to create or learn more about art
- To challenge people’s perceptions
- To make people think and feel
Material Goals
- A satisfactory take home income that will be enough to support myself, Liam and our kids comfortably
- A nice house
- Substantial investments and financial planning for retirement
- Provision for family traveling
- Provision for medical needs and insurance
- Able to afford good schooling, university and extra curricular activities
- An LPG 4WD at a good height to assist my getting in and out, plenty of room for kids and/or artworks
- Nice clothes and the ability to shop a fair bit
- Ability to go out to dinner with Liam, family and/or friends fairly regularly
- A good regular cleaner
Personal Goals
- To get my condition to a stage where it is easier to deal with
- To work to a point where recovery after a crash or excess exertion is as short as possible
- To regain some flexibility, mobility and function
- To be less dependent on other’s care, especially Liam’s
- Regaining strength to the point where I can sustain a longer walk, stand or sit for longer and be able to hold an exhibition without too much recovery.
- Acceptance of my figure and a lessening of my BDD and EDs.
- A strong, confident mindset.
- To gain some sales abilities
- To lessen my need for approval, especially from my mother
- Acceptance of myself and to gain respect for myself and abilities
- Stop beating myself up all the time
I think that’s it for my goals. Next stage will be brainstorming how to go about getting some of them. I think a lot of these are snowballing goals. so if I can find the right ways forward, things should spiral out from there into a realization of my key goals. Some of these may seem a little over the top but I think they are realistic and attainable goals. Many artists have achieved goals like these before, and I think, if I apply myself and work hard, I will be able to as well.
Tags: artist, blog project, career, goals
Get your Nudity out of my Face
9news.com | News | Citizens to petition to move nude sculpture
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“A lot of them are concerned for their children,” said former Loveland city councilman Larry Dassow. “They would rather have their own time and place to introduce their children to something like nudity.”
This whole recent controversy reminds me of the Simpsons episode with the David.. I personally think things like this are sad, narrow minded and clueless. Sculpture has a long history of nudity, celebrating the body in a permanent tribute. Classic Greek and Roman sculptures sought to elevate humanity to the level of the gods and celebrate the concept of perfection. Rodin showed us the depredations of time and immortalized the nude as a part of all of us, rather than seeking to attain perfection, he showed us who we were and what we will become.
I don’t think this sculpture is particularly controversial, It appears to be quite interesting looking, I’d like to see it properly (the photos are all awful). I agree with the artist, Kirsten Kokkin, who is a bit shocked by the whole thing.
“I am shaking my head about the fact that this sculpture created such an uproar because I don’t think it’s a very controversial sculpture.”
In Rome, you can’t turn a corner without seeing a nude sculpture. Does this offend the parents there? does it turn the children into wanton heathens? Nudity is the most natural state of all of us. it is often raw and exposed, it can reveal that we are often naked to the world and display the fragility of the human body. But the comment above shocks and disappoints me. Don’t they own a mirror? Is nudity something that has to be ‘introduced’? I thought it was something that was. inevitable as the tides. or do they keep their children clothed permanently so they can’t possibly see something as repulsive and obviously disturbing as the human body?
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