With 2022 behind us, I am ready for a new year of inspiration and creativity. Looking back, this past year was productive and reflective of my creative growth as an artist, designer, and writer.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays — Wishing you and yours all the best for the 2022 holiday season.
My MetalFusion™ artworks were a blast to create! Each was an original mixed media blend of my blended photography, metalwork, and art. My MetalFusion™ originals began as a photo I had taken of one of my art models or a motorcycle from a rally experience.
Officially launched on October 23rd, 1996, the ADCook.com website has always been about art & design and the celebration of creativity! Since its beginning, the website has grown to over 140 artworks, 500 posts & articles, 66 pages, and over 2,500 images (yikes!).
Sometimes, when chatting with my fellow web designers about developing and growing a website, I reference the process to a bonsai tree. Before I get too far into my story, I must confess that I have never owned a bonsai tree, but I’ve built plenty of websites.
Celebrating five-hundred posts & articles, observations and stories of art, love, Las Vegas, and beyond.
We’re not magicians, but what artists and designers create is magic, but there are no secrets to accessing knowledge and growing our creative bag of tricks.
With the new Advanced Search feature, it’s easier than ever to search the ADCook.com website.
“When it comes to a great idea, you know it when you see it.”
That is Pinterest’s tagline. But, of course, I would not have even known that unless I visited Pinterest as I did this morning when they declared that violation of our Community Guidelines on adult content. Bots, what do they know?
PAINTING WITH AIR ~ A Survey of Contemporary Airbrush Realism featuring world-class legends in the world of airbrush fine art.
Worldwide Auctioneers recently visited the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum and interviewed museum Executive Director & CEO, Brandon Anderson. Enjoy the video.
Twenty-twelve was a prolific year for me. Over that year, I created a stainless steel metal wall art (Ascension) and painted four canvas life-size and more giant fine art nudes, including; Truth, Ascendant, Jubilee, Premier, and Nirvana, and wrapped it up with a series of abstract artworks. Please read my post from 2012 for the complete list.
