Tuesday, February 27, 2007

"Autumn Lilly" will be Track of the Day at GarageBand.com!

"Autumn Lilly", by Nathan Bigman, will be Track of the Day at GarageBand.com.

For 24 hours on Saturday, the 3rd of March, 2007 (PST) "Autumn Lilly" will be featured on GarageBand.com's Jazz front page. The address for this page will be:
http://www.GarageBand.com/go/WCDBJ91F1H

Friday, February 09, 2007

ACEO Magazine is here!

ACEO Magazine is out, and it looks great! Congratulations to the folks at Pointindesign Creative Services for a terrific inaugural issue!

My ACEO, Stonewash, is included on Page 3:






And here is the cover:



To see more of the magazine and to subscribe, visit www.aceomagazine.com.

Monday, January 08, 2007

ACEO of the Day on New Blog!

The daily ACEOs have been moved to a new blog of their own, aptly titled "ACEO of the Day" at this address:

http://aceooftheday.blogspot.com/ .

I will continue to make and post a new ACEO every day. I hope this exercise will help me:

  • Learn discipline by doing some artwork every day
  • Hone my skills
  • Record my painting ideas. (I have so many ideas for paintings, but many get lost because I don't sketch them or write them down soon enough. My ACEOs often become the inspiration for larger paintings.)

And, frankly, the exercise should be enjoyable. I love making these little cards! And once they stop being enjoyable, well, the cards will probably stop, too.

What are ACEOs? ACEO stands for Art Card, Editions, Originals. They are small but complete works of art that are exactly 2.5 x 3.5 inches -- the same size as a baseball trading card or playing card. The cards were originally intended to be traded amongst artists only, which many still are. Those cards are called ATCs (Artist Trading Cards). ACEOs are meant to be bought and sold, as mine are.

Try a search in your favorite search engine for ACEO; you'll be surprised at how many results you get. They are a remarkably hot little form of artwork -- both collectable and affordable.