Jay Gidwitz

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Elephant Painting a Picture

Well, this doesn’t surprise me. It’s from the Telegraph newspaper, if you click the image it’ll take you to the site.
I think it’s genuine, and I’ve heard of elephants making art before.
If an elephant can paint a picture, anyone can paint a picture.
And it goes to my theory that we’re are all creative and that [...]

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Art Competition: “Humans in the moment”

About a month ago I submitted to “The TOPTEN Human in the Moment“– an online competition put on by ARTROM gallery based in Rome.
One of my pieces got in!
The Winners’ Exhibition opens Sunday, May 4th at 7:00pm (Rome time) on artromgallery.com.
The picture was an unpublished image from the Erich Zann posters.

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Jay Gidwitz Art Google Gadget

Here’s a “google gadget” with my art.
The picture changes every few minutes if the page is reloaded.

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New images: the “Rachel’s Knife” series

These images were produced through and from the installation project “Rachel’s Knife,” which I created with David Harrington. We created the installation by using chance operations to choose objects to get from the free stuff section on Craig’s List.
After acquiring a room full of stuff the next stage was to decide what to do [...]

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Blue Room Show

Two more pieces are going up in a show at the Blue Room at Brown University.
“Dark River” and “Dream Logic” are going to be in it.
Below: “Dream Logic”

Below: “Dark River”

Big thanks to Caroline Washington.

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Three New Images Added to the Portfolio

I completed these pictures over the summer (in 2007) while I was taking classes in New York City. The pictures are Dream World, River of Darkness, and Untitled Texture. All are a combination of photography and digital painting.

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The Sight Size Method

Sight size is a method by which artists aiming to draw a realist drawing from life can accomplish that while training their eye to better see what’s in nature. The method is taught in the atelier system of art schools as “training wheels” for artists..
We used the sight size method at [...]

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