As you already know, this CR CSS identifies the official Traditional Art updates, that will be linked in the official Community Relations Newsletter by $Moonbeam13. Be sure to check out the Traditional Art GD Team's journals for more info:
Art History Contest: Art Nouveau - Deadline
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oilsoaked's
Art History Contest: Art Nouveau Edition is closing up for submissions on the 31st! Only a few days left to add your entry, so get on with it.
Art History Spotlight on Art Nouveau tells you what you need to know about the movement.
Traditional Gallery Streamlining - Printmaking
The Streamlining Project aims to clarify the labyrinthine cathegories on dA, and help ease the submission process. Ideas for it have been around for quite a while, and the turn for the Trad Gallery finally is coming around. ^
limnides has presented
our proposal for the Gallery's changes, and some of your requests have been included.
My personal favorite of this is the complete overhaul proposed for the "Printing" category. Being a printmaker myself, and as a GM, i've encountered many flaws and complications on its structure: techniques are included or overlooked without much logic, and it's just not built to grow. There's many people doing stuff that just has no place for it, so we needed an inclusive, stripped-to-basics, built-to-last category system. Those of you who have followed my Printmaking Series' articles will recognize this:
Traditional Art > Printmaking
Relief
Intaglio
Planographic
Screen
Mixed / Experimental Techniques
Relief includes Woodcut, Linocut, Collagraph, Misc. / Experimental Block Printing.
Intaglio includes Engraving, Etching/Aquatint, Mezzotint, Drypoint, Collograph, Misc. / Experimental Intaglio Printing
Planographic includes Lithography (and alternative plates such as Zinc, Aluminum, Photo-sensitive sheets and other lithographic processes), Monotype, Misc. / Experimental Planographic Printing
Screen includes Silkscreen, Stencil ( Pochoir), Misc. / Experimental Screen Printing
Mixed/Experimental includes everything else you can think of which was printed on a surface from some kind of matrix or process not listed before.
The information above will be provided as part of the category descriptions, not as sub-categories.
What do you think? i want to know!
... is almost over!
deadline for submitting your Zombie tattoo design is May 30th! I'm part of the judging panel, and adding to the prize list a journal feature for the winners
read all about it
here.
Moustache Press Contest
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lando-calrisian noted me a while about about this project:
Hello there, my brother and I are starting a crazy project called moustachepress, we are going to produce limited series of artist prints, in miniprint and card formats, on letterpress technique, printed with a Heidelberg Windmill letterpress machine, we have any artists that have work in progress for our first editions but we don't know as much as we would like so, we are launching a contest trough deviantArt to get more people involved, here are the requirements of the contest:
Media: Vector or any digital media that can be easily transfer to a polymer plate.
Color: Just one color.
Theme: free.
Prizes: the winner will get a 1 year DA subscription, a journal feature by me and maybe any others and the work will be produced as a limited serie of prints, and you will get a % of every income we get.
Copyright stuff: the work will remain yours and we will sign an agreement to get the right for the production of the series.
Any examples of what we are planning to do:
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[link]Looks like a really cool opportunity for any Traditional artist with a clean, sharp, high-contrast style who can provide a good, polished scan of their work. Contact *
lando-calrisian with your inquiries!
chilean printmaker
extraordinaire ~
Atanasio is selling original prints from the Anthropofagy Chronicles' Series. The prints are single pages of an artist's book (you can see the details for the complete book and specs at the
Howard Karno Books Inc. website), . For inquiries on single prints (serious collectors only, please), email
13agujas@gmail.com.
Some of the prints available are:
On the News
The Printmaking Series
The articles divide the existing (and missing) Printmaking categories on deviantART into four main families, taking a good look at the techniques on each of them and featuring a selection of talented printmakers of each discipline.
The Inkredible Series:
Inkredible Feature #5 Traditional Tattoos
Inkredible Feature #4 Oriental Tattoos
Inkredible Feature #3 Tribal tattooing.
Inkredible Feature #2 Black & Grey Tattoos.
Daily Deviation Suggestions
Send me DD Suggestions for Traditional Art only. Here are some guidelines to follow:
- Send DD suggestions to only one of us Traditional GD's. It gets confusing if you post all of us with the same message.
- Please check if your suggested deviant hasn't gotten a DD in the last 3 months. It is the only hard rule standing.
- Personally, i'd like to ask you to put the name of the deviant on the Note's Subject. It's just easier to keep track of them that way
- If you strongly disagree with the selection of any given DD, please do not flame the artist. It's rude and in poor taste, and the selected deviant had no say on getting featured. If you really have a well-founded complaint about it, please direct it to $Moonbeam13, who will gladly look into it. For the official version, please read FAQ #873: What do I do when I disapprove of a Daily Deviation feature?
Traditional Gallery Description
Work that is primarily created with traditional media and physical materials.
Remember, all art you submit must be your own. Webcam, cell phone and general low-resolution or blurry shots belong in your Scraps. Traditional Feature
CR Update - Traditional Art 
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Devious Comments
If you change the streamline for printmaking it will be difficult to find specific techniques. Escpecially if you have the collography technique in three different sections. I think the sections work for me, though there is alot of misplaced deviations.
The idea of experimental printmaking fits into already existing sections.
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Jet Blurton
Collagraph, as you well know, can be printed as Relief, Intaglio or both. You have the liberty of uploading it in exactly the category you know it belongs to. detailing each and every subcategory results in exactly that kind of issues: the way i see it, if you're uploading prints, you know your stuff. you can't fake it on MS Paint. if we have miscats, they belong to non-printmakers who are uploading stuff that clearly does not belong here (therefore couldn't care less about categories), or to the party animals who think it's cool to upload your stuff to random places. printmakers, even the most amateur ones, know relief from silkscreen. Powerful search engine capabilities are soon to be implemented, so descriptions and keywords will be expected of serious deviants who want their artwork to be seen.+
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+"come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?"+
k.p.
Personally most of my work is together in one section, which seems tidy for me. The change would make my work spread across three sections.
I'll have to rely on my keywords for sure
Thanks for letting us know Daniel
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Jet Blurton
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+"come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?"+
k.p.
i know what you mean, but in the absence of specific subcats what would you suggest we do with collagraphs? do you think they should be limited to one family?
descriptions and keywords are vital. we're uploading our art in order for it to be found and seen, right? we should ease the process for all potential viewers and use the site's capabilities to our advantage
your opinion is valued
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+"come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?"+
k.p.
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+"come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?"+
k.p.
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