Shelley Lambert

I am showing some of my paintings in a joint art exhibit with TollyOskar at the IBM Ottawa Lab Employee Gallery beginning April 26th. Once it is installed, I will post some pictures…

So far, the list of paintings/sketches includes:

Shelley Lambert’s List:
Gaspe Fisherman, 1999, acrylic
Roman Boy, 2004, acrylic and oil
5 Stones Portrait, 2000, acrylic
Race Rocks Driftwood, 1999, acrylic
Triangle Trees, 1999, acrylic
Kandinsky Train, 2003, acrylic
Red Wagon, 1995, charcoal

TollyOskar’s List:
Flag of the Ocean Floor, 1996, acrylic, found objects
Red, 2002, acrylic
Exclamation #1 (It’s So Hard), 2004, acrylic
Exclamation #2 (Give It To Me Straight), 2004, acrylic
Directions, 2002, acrylic, oil, oil pastel

These crazy kalinka-rinky dinks from Ekaterinburg (Ural, Russia) are too precious. Buy one now for your sweet babushka.

BBC documentary alleges that the Tate Gallery paid a £3.3million ransom to recover some stolen Turner paintings.

Ex-detective superintendent Mike Lawrence told the documentary: “The deal was that the recovery of the art was more important than arrests. It was a strange feeling.”
The two works - Shade And Darkness: The Evening Of The Deluge, and Light And Colour (Goethe’s Theory): The Morning after the Deluge - were stolen from the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt in 1994 while on loan to the exhibition Goethe And The Visual Arts.

You sunk my battleship! Not really. Why would you want to sink somethin’ so purdy?

During WWI, British and American battleships were painted with gay, brightly colored cubist designs in order to confuse enemy torpedo operators about the location and direction of the vessels. The paint-jobs were called “Dazzle Paint” or “Razzle Dazzle”.

Wow!! I can’t believe how cool this hand art is! Which one is your favourite? I am partial to the Eagle and the Elephant.

A painting of a big yellow buttocks is being considered for this year’s Turner Prize.

THE artwork shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize was unveiled yesterday - including a painting of a giant yellow bum.

The picture is part of series called Bum Paintings by favourite Gillian Carnegie.

Out of all the other candidates, I actually have to say that this one seems the most deserving to win. I hope it does not get a ‘bum’ deal.

The Worth1000 photoshop contest yielded some interesting results. Now to figure out how to transform the digital form to an actual painting with real depth and richness of stroke, texture and colour, then we would have something! And yes, that does mean I think digital forms of art are lesser forms than traditional forms…

Could it be true that there is a painting to rival Ms. Mona?

Move over, Mona Lisa. If Carlo Pedretti’s hunch is right, the world may soon have another Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece to admire.

A stunningly beautiful painting called Mary Magdalene which the world-class art historian suspects may have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci together with one of his pupils will soon go on public view for the first time in more than half a century.

Tobacco warnings are now modern art.

The graphic images appear as health warnings on Canadian cigarette packs, and they will now be part of a MoMA exhibition on objects designed to protect the mind and body from dangerous or stressful influences.

I would never have guessed there would be enough examples of Giant hand art to fill a gallery, but here’s what I know…

Datajunkie has a small gallery of advertising images from decades past featuring larger-than-life hands.