What's up?

What's up?

Welcome to the spot "What's up".All over internet, there are a lot of topics that deviants are following and getting involved in.So, we decided to get some of them here!

Against art theft!

Seems to any kind of art piece wasn't spared

News about art theft shocked deviants around internet.While deviants are criticizing this art theft, some of them could not only sit and watch.In this fight, artists didn't wanted to leave victims of art theft to fight alone.Dissapointed in step that "Party Town" made, deviantsaster, artist, and group of other deviants are decided to end this shameless development.Group for supporting victims of art theft is officialy opened yesterday named ArtTheftSupport, leaded by deviantsaster."This Group has been set up to fight art thieves with people power!AlviaAlcedo's art as well as many others was stolen by the facebook app party town and at the moment it is our main fight!With your help let us take down this app!Here is a blog on all the art that has been stolen" -written to inform artists."Well at first i was just mad that this would happen 
to anyone and i was brooding over it for a few days and i just sort of said to myself "i can't let this slide". People don't realise the power they have and the easiest way to lose power is to think you don't have any. So i'm just talking to this user rayne and then on a mildly spur of the moment thing i'm like 'we'll get the people together and take them down with people power'. In real life i was once a protester against putting flouride in the water and we won that so i guess i was empowered by a thirst for justice, my generally abrasive attitude toward evil doers and my desire to make everyone happy. Idealy i want to shut down Party town but i realise we might not achieve this but i've noted

Just a one proof of stolen art

a huge drop in incoming traffic to the page so we might be able to make it go backrupt or force them into offering a peace settlement with the artists they stole from.At very least i expect us to be a support group for everyone effected and i'm hoping that when we have enough member we'll do a donation pool and give points to the affected artists."- said deviantsaster, leader of "ArtTheftSupport" that answered us on questions.Now united, goal of this group of deviants, is to take down facebook application that dissapointed hundreds and hundreds of deviants.

Popularity dropping of Party Town.Deviants are hoping to they will achieve their goal.

 

Interview with...

 Interview with... 

Welcome to the spot "Interview with...".It's already known that huge number of artists on internet are trying to find place for their works.So, we wanted to help everyone by doing an interview with them!

This time, for beginning, we will write about deviant from Russia - Alvia Alcedo.

AlviaAlcedo is a deviant from Russia, known by her amazing and stunning art pieces, like stone paintings, drawings, clay sculptures and feather paintings.

Her drawings are mostly releated to animals and fantasy creatures.Detailed, on amazing theme with nice colors, these works are always producing "Wow" reaction by watchers.

Sadly, some of works of AlviaAlcedo have been stolen.Her works are used like game design for "Party castle" without any permissions.Even worse fact is that to she is not the only dissapointed deviant.Ironshod is owner of her art, that is used like game desing too.More about that, AlviaAlcedo was writting here.This raged artists on DeviantArt, that didn't wanted to sit with arms crossed and quickly flooded facebook pages of "Party town" with comments about stolen arts that are appearing on screenshots.

Two stolen works of this artist

Alvia is pushed limits to another level.She didn't kept her limits on stone and paper only.Attempt to draw on feathers was successful, showing to deviants that everything is possible.

Breath-taking feather paintings, dimensions roundly 20x5 cm, of Russian deviant with motives of fantasy creatures and animals are taking a lot of attetion of deviants around on internet

Materials that this artists is using most is craft paper, acrylics, temperas, watercolors, faber-castell pencils and black and white pen, that are making her gallery diverse.Some of her works can be bought, mostly on her Etsy Shop.The price of her works any artist was never looking, not sparing a dollar for amazing piece that basicaly want to "pop-out" from paper and stones!

Dimensions aren't limits to AlviaAlcedo

It's not that only drawings and feather paintings are top of this hill!There are and stunning detailed stone paintings and clay sculptures.

Necklaces are dimensions roundly to  5x5 cm.But, small dimensions didn't stopped AlviaAlcedo to draw detailed and on stone.Most is used agate stone of different shapes, colors and dimensions.Those necklaces are suprising every single artists, making him/her asking how is possible to draw like that on such small dimensions.These necklaces are very attractive, so when some of them get on list for selling, they get home realy fast.

Sculptures are usually small-sized and made of different types of clay.AlviaAlcedo submitted few pictures of those miniature sculptures showing once again to it's not only possible to draw on small dimensions...-It's even possible to make such small detailed thing.

 

Superlight airdy polymer clay is enabling to some parts of figure are still flexible and soft

When there is no paper...Why not marzipan?!

Once again this deviant isn't sitting with arms crossed!Russian deviant suprised all of artists when she submitted a picture of her work where she was expressing her love to art by using a marzipan and chocolate.
These pictures were submitted on 14th February 2013 with text: "Happy Valentine's day, my dear watchers!^^ "

Seems to art is appearing in every shape...

 Deviants were incredibly suprised leaving a numerous comments ( 79 comment, 703 downloads, 8041 views and 943 favourites).Reaction on this piece was realy hilarious: "just awesome... it would break my heart to eat these... they are too adoreable to be eaten", "B-but....who would WANT to eat them?! They are too cute to eat! ;^;", "They are gorgeous, but how can anyone ever be able to eat something so beautiful?! OAo"

An Interview with AlviaAlcedo 

For end, we made an interview with AlviaAlcedo that answered us on all asked questions:

What do you most like to do of your art? (drawings, stone painting, feather painting...)
-I like fantasy animals, it doesn't matter, what media I use to make it real.

 How long you been drawing, making necklaces, painting feathers and making clay sculptures?
-I'm drawing since childhood. Necklaces/feather paintings/sculptures - last 2-4 years.

When did you started doing art more serious?
- I'm not sure, that my art is serious even now^^' I will try to improve it.

You are well known deviant, that is picking up attention of many persons on internet.With which art piece you were FIRST time flooded with comments, favourites and views?

-This one.Also, it was the first time, when I got Daily Deviation.
















Could you imagine yourself like this before?
-I'm not sure, that I could. It's very funny for me to see my old drawings (:

You are idol to many of your watchers, but...Do you have your own idol? :)
-Idol? I'm not sure, that I have a lots of people, who like my art^^'
I can only give name of the artists, whose art I like. For example, Ciruelo Cabral,Todd Lockwood, Chris Achilleos, Julie Bell, Jeff Easly and many others.

On which theme you love to draw?
-I don't know, maybe, fantasy friendship. It's very interesting theme.

Did you ever organised some contest?
- Yes, it was in 2009. I'm not sure, that I will hold any contest in future, it's very hard to be a contest's organisator.

Few days ago you saw to your art is stolen.However, you are not the only one.Art of Ironshod is stolen too.How do you feel about it?
-Looks, like, dragons are popular characters in games. But it's not great to steal the another artist's art and make money of using it without any permission.

You were writting about this few days ago in journal.Even it passed 5 days of submition of journal, it's still very hot topic with huge number of comments.This art theft raged many artists over internet on DeviantArt.How do you feel after reading comments on journal and facebook pages?
- I hope, that the problem will be solved. One artist is just one artist, but together we can make something with art theft.

Big number of artists want to be known like you!What advice would you give to them?
-Really? Do you think, that I'm popular?..I'm honored.
Advice: just go and draw. And one day you will draw better, than me now, I'm sure^^

 Thank you for answering on this questions Alvia! :)

Readers, feel free and leave questions in comments that you would like to get answered!