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Presidential Campaign '08 Logo Art
No, this is not ANOTHER political article telling you to vote and how. Instead, let's take a breath from all the mayhem and look at the logo art used by each of the four main campaigns in this year's presidential election. You'd be surprised how much you can tell about a candidate by their logo. And while we have all seen these images paraded around on the various bumpers of our fellow voters, it is easily forgotten, even by the candidates themselves, how important that image can be in reinforcing on...
| Featured Artists |
"Leap" by rmorris. This artist has many other great paintings here: www.thevisiongrove.com/rmorris
"Pops" by davidmarkrossi. This artist also has more work on his profile here: www.thevisiongrove.com/davidmarkrossi |
| The World First Urban Art Sale Soars at Bonhams |
In a packed saleroom, more than 500 people watched the World’s first Urban Art sale take place at Bonhams in New Bond Street today – Tuesday 5 February 2008. As bids were relayed to the auctioneer of the evening, Pippa Stockdale, buyers battled to buy works by this new group of avant-garde artists. Exciting, fresh, edgy and challenging, interest for works was fever-pitch throughout the sale with 99% of the work selling - a truly extraordinary phenomenon that the market has never seen before. Many works by artists were met with a round of applause during the sale and cheers and more applause continued at the... |
| 48 New Member Profiles |
Since our last issue of The LodeStone went out in mid December, we have had 50 new member artists. The community continues to add more and more diversity with each passing month! Some of the new art category examples are: digital, sketches, mixed media, oil paintings, photography and more. View their profiles here. Don’t forget to check out the existing member profiles. Not only can they personalize their profiles by adding music, color, and images to their background or by uploading pictures of themselves, but they are always updating what images they have to share with the community. Browse through their profiles here, and if you like what you see, send them an email. Want to participate? It is easy and costs nothing to join. So, come on in, join now. |
| Did You Know? |
Did you know that you can make prints and personalized gifts of your own stuff through The Vision Grove? Once you are logged in, you will see a link right near the top of the My Account page that reads: Make Prints Out of Your Images! From that link, you are taken to your profile page where you can select what image and what product you want to purchase. This allows you to not have to deal with the “additional markup” that you, the seller, asks for from visitors. If you click away during the process, you must go back and fol... |
