Road to Eternity

     Here's a new metaphorical image for you.  Head on over to Artingle.etsy.com to see a larger view of it.  We travel out of the city into the country and on to deep space.
     I made the image while contemplating the new year and used it in a new year's card to family and friends.  Now you can get it at the Artingle shop.  I hope it inspires contemplation and encourages you to keep walking closer and closer to God.

Christmas Crafts to Gather Around

Christmas handcrafts are now available at my online visual arts shop, Artingle.

The items draw us toward God in the community of one another through simple crafts depicting key symbols and scenes of the holidays. You may receive these black and white images by e-mail as digital files which you can print, color, cut out, fold and use to decorate your home.
Beyond Crafts
It is akin to prayer and meditation when you take time to slow down and create an object full of meaning about the celebration of Christmas. In another way when a group works together on these projects, special conversation occurs, memories are made, fellowship strengthens the bond of love between the participants. The finished objects trigger the memories of the conversations and fellowship as they hang and sit around the house. Then, in coming years, those good experiences can have a rebirth as the creations are brought out of storage for future celebrations.
Lots to Choose From

You may choose between my eleven simple projects: a nativity scene, a Christmas tree, five gift tags, three elegant ornaments and a greeting card. Each one may be printed as many times as desired and colored in infinite ways. Suggestions for variations are included.

All the items may be purchased in one Christmas Celebration Kit at a 40% discount.

Parents and teachers will find welcome activities here for classes and groups. Parties will be enhanced by several activity stations using these projects.

Browse through them and Mark's other visual offerings at http://Artingle.Etsy.com

Guess What This Is And Win

This is a drawing of part of something shown in the film "To the Diggers". The first person who guesses what it is by January 1 (12am) will win a signed copy of the film. Listen to the sound track above in this blog for clues. Give as many guesses as you want in the comment box below, or by e-mail to mark (at) horizongate.org. Mark might respond with a clue for further guesses if you beg!

Film Report #5: Art Reveals the Unseen

Drawings for the film "To the Diggers" -- Here is a sequence of drawings by Mark Turner studying a TV studio camera and camera operator. A TV studio is usually a mass of technology that we don't want to look at. Everything is focused on the illusion created by the gleaming set. But, these drawings show very intriguing shapes, lines and colors behind the scene which will entertain our viewers' eyes. Part of the mission of our film of drawings is to reveal more than the viewer normally thinks about. As a film the drawings will move through the field of vision and show a relationship to each other. In the gallery the drawings will stand alone as still images. In both ways the art will illuminate the mind and heart of the beholder.

Art Film Report #4: Getting Into the News Industry

Drawings of political campaigns have given way to drawings of news anchors and pundits. These drawings will be part of a montage corresponding to this part of the poem:

“We, transfixed by images,

Chew on shiny, tasty, sexy fear, . . .”

The poem speaks of the transitory nature of statements blown out of proportion by the media today.

I spend many hours searching for models from which to create the drawings.  Then I try to let the physical medium, mostly colored pencil on paper, show its character.  The mass of drawings moving through the motion graphics montage along with the rich sound track will prove very engaging.

Art Film Report #3: Political Campaign Drawings

Early in the “To the Diggers” film we will see flashes of political campaigns. So, I have been collecting and studying photos of politicians pressing flesh in the crowds and waving from motorcades.

The poetic words underlying this section are as follows: 



 

“We regard as wisdom
Bright reflections, pixels,
Bites of sound repeated;
Arranging body and face
Choreographed in a timely place,
Makes powerful and great.”

The drawings I've made from these studies will form a fast cutting montage. The images you see here are details from the larger,

colored pencil drawings which will enjoy a second life exhibited along side the completed film.

Other work on the film has included enlarging images to emphasize individual pixels. I have made 17 of these “swatches” and will use them as colorful flashes over other images.

The next set of drawings will be from studies of TV News Pundits, news sets and TV equipment.

 

Thanks for Helping Our Funding Campaign

Thanks to all who funded us and all who followed our campaign which was centered on IndieGoGo.com.
Total combined online and offline giving was $1,870 in 30 days. Total views of the site has been 2,779.
We were able to make a payment on our home and studio.  The film continues in production.
You can still go to http://www.indiegogo.com/To-the-Diggers, view our presentation and plan how you will participate in the next phase of this great endeavor. Stand by for announcements of on-going building. Subscribe to this blog for film production progress reports.