Bibi Bielat

Bibi Bielat Photo & Travel Blog

bibi — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:50:09 +0000

There has been some interest from friends and family for me to share my photography as well as my art. I am very flattered by this but still not quite how I feel about calling myself a “photograper”. I love making photos, I love to travel and I love to share, so for now I’ll just leave it at that and graciously accept the compliment.

http://bibibielatphotography.com/

Good day in the studio

bibi — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:26:22 +0000

Art is more than just making lovely paintings, there is a lot of business that needs to be done. Today, I’m taking the painters hat off and putting my business hat on… Updating website with new work and old work, creating a book to send to galleries and interior decorators, and the ever looming task of getting ready for tax day. I can guarantee there will be a glass of wine waiting for me at the end of this day!

Successful Event

bibi — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:09:32 +0000

Wow, last night was a whirlwind… I hosted 40-50 university students for an Urban entrepreneurship and multi-media program. I wasn’t expecting to have to give a speech but I deeply enjoyed talking about my experience as an artist and living in a work/live loft and being surrounded by a supportive art community. I’m living my dream here, it was rewarding to share my enthusiasm with a group of young entrepreneurs. The students had such great energy, they really care and want to make a difference, their exuberance was contagious and I look forward to following their progress through out the semester.

Sunscreen

bibi — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:38:36 +0000

So, the thing about process art is not being able to control the outcome… Yesterday was cold and gray and my paints needed a dose of zoloft, everything kept coming out really dark. Today is sunny (not really warm) but I have the door to the studio open and paintings strewn about in various stages of rusting/patina-ing. This one painting is getting a direct shot of sun and while not a desired effect, it is turning white where the sun is hitting it. I guess it’s time to add another layer of paint and close the curtains. I think while the paint is drying I’ll step outside and get myself a healthy dose of vitamin D.

Works in process

bibi — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:23:47 +0000

It’s wonderful being back in the studio and painting. I have 6 small paintings in progress, well, 5 actually, I put the leg of the easel thru one canvas, so that is a repair project. I hope to have them done by tomorrow because I was just invited to host an open house for 40-50 Urban entrepreneurship and marketing students.

I also have 3 large canvases and 3 medium canvases prepped with texture and ready for paint. The nice thing about process art is there is time in between applications for the process to take effect so I am able to have several paintings going at one time. It is a cold, gray day here today so drying times are slower so I’m drinking lots of coffee (thanks to Clay Enos and the best coffee in the world at organiccoffee.com).

I was just about to hit “publish” and I questioned the plural of canvas. I’m good to go, it is indeed canvases. Ok, I think I need to lay off the coffee now.

Hello World!

bibi — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:10:25 +0000

Thank you everyone for coming to my website! It’s amazing to see how many people from all over the world have visited. I didn’t know I was such a big deal in the UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina, India and Hong Kong. I want to especially give a shout out to all my friends and family in Sweden, thank you for your loyalty! Nashville gets top billing on visits, I love and miss y’all!

I’ve been working on a few things here… I’ve had several requests/suggestions to include my photography as part of my artwork. I honestly had never considered it. I like to make pretty photos for myself and share them with my friends on facebook, Flikr or on my AppleTV, so the idea of selling them as prints is foreign to me. Alas, I’ve come around to liking the idea, I will be adding a photo gallery to bibibielat.com with prints for sale by order. This will be an experiment, if it works and people like/buy my photography, that would be marvelous, if not, then no big whoop!

Ready to launch

bibi — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:22:33 +0000

T minus 5 hours to launch.

We’ll it’s not really a “launch”, the site is live but I just haven’t told more than a handful of people about it. I suppose that sometime this evening I will spread the word, I will annoy my facebook, tumblr, twitter friends with posts about my new website but they will just have to deal with it. I’m happy with my new little website and I can’t wait to share it. Just a few more little tweaks to the content and it’s launch time!

Day 2, It’s working!

bibi — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:56:45 +0000

So, I just might be a genius… I’m mastering WordPress like a… master!

Check this out, I’m going to insert a photo, just because I can!

Day 1, creation

bibi — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:05:32 +0000

I plan on being a wordpress expert by the time I’m done with this thing