No Boundaries International Artist's Colony

We arrived on Bald Head Island, NC on Friday, November 6th and were welcomed by sunny skies, warm beaches and bright blue waters.
We quickly settled in and started straight to work, every artist excited and ready to take full advantage of this fantastic opportunity. This series of photos focuses and the house I share with Iandry Randriamanoroso (Madagascar /Brooklyn, NY), Nii Narku (Ghanna) and Lazaro Salsita (Cuba).

Iandry with Birds, Nii with Figurative Abstracts, Lazaro with String and Assemblage pieces which center on the topic of leaving Cuba for the USA. I worked on a galley fold book my first couple days as well as some painting which I will show in my next post along with the other artist's work who reside in two other house.

Beautiful scenery, working hard and a night of  Iandry and Lazaro playing moonlight DJs.
FANTASTIC!

Here is a list of all the artists and their websites below. I am hoping to post again and a day or two.

Ana Young - www.anayoung.com.au
Topher -www.christopheralexanderart.wordpress.com
Fritzi Huber - Go to facebook
Kirah Van Sickle - www.kirahfineart.com
Lazaro Salsita - Facebook.com/lazaro.salsita
Michelle Connoly - www.michelleconnolyart.com
Myrna Pronchuk - www.myrnapronchuk.ca
Nii Narku -  www.niinarkuart.weebly.com
Rusudan Khizanishvili - www.saatchiart.com/rusa
Mark Weber - www.markweberart.com

"Birds of a Feather " Nov. 27th - Dec.7th

Karen Paden Crouch and myself will be hosting "Birds of a Feather" , a show featuring Karen's sculptures and my drawings and paintings. I created a number of pieces based on her sculptures and she in turn created works based on my drawings and paintings. Our vision is very similar and we are very excited about the collaboration.
Opening reception is Friday, Nov.27th at ACME Art Studios, 711 N. 5th Ave. Wilmington, NC and runs through Dec.7th. If you have any questions etc., please feel free to contact me at (910) 264-2661

We have created an events page on Facebook under "Birds of a Feather" as well and will be posting some images soon.
Hope to see you on the 27th!!

Pen & Ink ...my go to!

With all the cool, non-messy waterproof marker pens out there it's easy to get away from using the good old pen nib and bottle of ink. But, that's just what I did yesterday and today. The two larger pieces consists of oil washes on gessoed wood panels while the other is done on an 80lb stock. Both were completed with pen and ink.

Getting ready

I am working on new pieces for the upcoming show in November (see previous post) and thought I would post a few pieces which are finished as well as in progress. I will be posting a facebook page for the event in the near future. Please click on image to enlarge.

Inspiration / Two New Pieces

In December of last year I moved my studio into ACME Art Studios here in Wilmington, NC.
ACME provides studio spaces for 22 artists who work in a variety of mediums and styles. Painters
have studios next sculptures, a paper artist across the hall from a photographer etc., etc.,

One artist with whom I felt an immediate common thread with was Karen Paden Crouch.
Her sculptures seemed to share various influences I draw from, primarily early turn of the century
children's book illustrators such as Rackham, HJ Ford and others.
In November of this year Karen and I will be featuring works which play off of each other.
This is a little preview...two works on paper I did this week. The images are inspired by Karen's
work. More of her work can be seen at www.karenpadencrouch.com 


These are done in ink, watercolor, graphite and gesso. I have also included a b&w version as well as versions I colored in photoshop using simple screens. Please click to enlarge.

Artist-in-Residence / Erie Art Museum Show

I just finished spending four days at The Erie Art Museum as an artist-in residence, creating work live in the Bacon Gallery portion of the museum. On the fourth day, January 30th we had an opening featuring the pieces which were for sale, with part of the proceeds going to the museum. Also featured was the amazing installation of Pittsburgh artist "Ian Brill." If you are not familiar with his work, you must check it out. Simply fantastic!!
I will put up another post with links etc.,. I am currently at the Philly airport and just wanted to take the time to post some images, say thanks again to all the staff at the Erie Art Museum and all you amazing people who attended the show and who have supported me over the years. It was great visiting, creating and catching up. Cheers!
 Please click on images to enlarge.

Suite of Ink & Monoprints

This is a suite I completed last week. Done using the method of monoprint ( oils applied to glass then transferred to paper) along with ink. The beauty of monoprints is that every one is different and you never know how it's going to come out exactly. I plan on doing many more.

The originals and prints are available. If interested please e-mail me at markweber2@gmail.com

Please click on image to enlarge.