Shane Robinson

Shane Robinson is part of the Maui Open Studios tour this year. He will be in his studio, sharing his work and offering demos. I will be there serving refreshments and being hostess. We hope you will join us and tell your friends! Families are welcome – we will have art supplies anyone is welcome to play with.

In a way this is a coming out party. One of the main reasons we moved to Maui this year was to open up the channels for Shane’s creativity. Who knew he had an art degree and was nick-named “copy machine” in high school for his representational drawing abilities? Alas, he is far more interested in abstract art. And, dare I say, after 20 years as a programmer and technologist, he is far more interested in creating something new and using digital tools to create new art forms.

We especially want to meet other individuals and gallerists who are interested in contemporary photography, digital painting, and abstract art.

It’s a very creative space, on the top floor, with ocean views. Come find your own muse and join us for some “arting” as we now call the process of making art! We’ll have art supplies you and your family can play with.

Shane will be showing you how he creates original paintings on the iPad as well as some of his “work in progress” acrylic paintings. Perhaps art is at that juncture photography faced a decade ago, when artists could leave behind the darkroom and the chemicals. And despite his interest in nudes, there will be no nude modeling.

Here is the schedule:
Saturday 11 am – 6 pm: Open Studio
Saturday 6 pm – 8 pm: Reception and Party
Sunday 11 am – 6 pm: Open Studio

Directions & Map:
375 W Kuiaha Rd Ste 24 (in the very back)
Haiku HI 96708
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What is more Hawaiian than a bowl of flowers on the kitchen table? One day we had our hanai child over visiting, and she went picking plumeria from the yard and filled several our stacking color mixing bowls. The result is positively color vibrating at the highest levels imaginable!

Dr. Andrew Weil has maintained for some time that having flowers around adds to our health. It may also be that they cheer up the cook as well. With one of these images on your wall, you have the mana of the flowers as well as an infinite pool of color in which to immerse yourself!

The color, the boldness, the delicacy – the vitality, they all combine to create a stunning collection of images. These are for sale over on our budding online art store, MakaIkeMaui.com.

You can also download this image – Flower Bowl #120 – for free to use as a desktop image on your iPhone, iPad, or computer.

This Friday, Feb 3rd, is the opening in Honolulu for the Phone Camera Photography 2012 Invitational Show. Shane’s piece, ingress, will be shown there. We won’t be able to make it so if you do, please post some pics for us!

Friday, February 3rd, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
South Street Gallery
627 South Street
Honolulu HI

Those of you in Honolulu will recognize this as connected to Kevin Brewer’s Frame Arts – a wonderful place to get your fine art framed.

I’m honored and very happy that four of my images were selected for display on the curated site P1xels: The Art of the iPhone today.

Roxanne and I were waiting in line at the DMV in Pukalani and I finally decided to start submitting my work to P1xels. Using the P1xels iPhone app, I selected six images to submit to the site. The 4 shown below were selected.

“Gingered Torso” and “Gingered Self-Portrait” will be familiar to those of you that follow my work. But “Captured” and “Captured II” will be new to everyone.

Even though I stopped posting images online earlier this year (when I got really burned out trying to do another “365 Photos” project), I’ve continued to create work on my iPhone and iPad and now have, literally, hundreds of images finished that no one has seen, except Roxanne. Now I’m finally feeling the vibe to start posting my work online again.

Should be a very interesting 2012!!

The Maui Film Festival 2011 kicks off today, June 15 through this Sunday, June 19, 2011. The events and screenings place in and around the beautiful areas of Wailea on the South shores of Maui.

If you’re reading this there’s a good chance you are currently attending or attended the Festival and received one of the gift bags that was presented to the VIPs, directors, and actors/actresses that attended the 2011 event.

I was thrilled and honored to be invited to include some of my contemporary artwork for the giftbags. We decided to provide my work in the form Limited Edition greeting cards created specifically for the 2011 Maui Film Festival.

If you find yourself in possession of one of these cards you’ll see there is a “code” on the back, along with information on that specific artwork. Using the code on the back of the card will provide a 20% discount on your purchase, or private commission, on any of my work.

An additional 20% of any purchases made using these codes will be donated directly to the Pacific Whale Foundation.

My new online store will be launched within the next few days, in time for the conclusion of the Maui Film Festival 2001. In the mean time, if you have any questions or would like to discuss any aspects of my work, please contact me via any of the ways below:

email: shane [at] shanerobinson [dot] com
Twitter: @shane
Facebook: facebook.com/shanerobinson
Facebook Fan Page: facebook.com/shaneart

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I’m thrilled to announce one of my favorite pieces, “Gingered Torso“, has been accepted to the Contemporary Photography in Hawaii 2011 juried exhibition and is the recipient of the Juror’s Award.

This is the third year for this juried event and more than 100 photographers submitted over 400 images. Approximately 60 images were accepted. The opening reception is Friday, April 1st and I hope you will join me there.

Exhibition details:

Location: Frame Arts Hawaii
Address: 627 South St., Honolulu, Hawaii
Dates: April 1 – April 30, 2011
Opening Reception: April 1, 2011. 6 – 9pm
Times: Monday – Friday 9:30 am – 5:30 pm, Saturdays 9:30 am – 1:00 pm

The exhibition is titled, “Contemporary Photography in Hawaii 2011: The Third Annual Statewide Survey Exhibition.” University of Hawaii at Manoa Pacific New Media is the sponsor and the show was again juried by Jerry Omo and David Ulrich.

The 2010 exhibition what the first competition I had ever entered and I was very excited that the first abstract photograph I ever took, “Abstract 8167” was selected for the show.

My submission this year, “Gingered Torso” represents an exciting direction I’ve taken recently. Using the incredibly powerful and intuitive painting and compositing iPhone and iPad application, Brushes, I’ve begun creating what I call “Digital Mashups.” My Digital Mashups are works created entirely on my iPhone, iPad, or a combination of the two devices, using anywhere from two to six or more “apps” to achieve the final result. The apps I used are listed below with links to their websites and to their listings in the Apple App Store.

An additional benefit of working, painting, and compositing in Brushes is that it records every brush stroke, every layer blend mode change, and every image imported or deleted from the six possible layers an artist can work on at any given time. Once the work is complete, I can export the final artwork as a number of high resolution graphic files and extremely high quality QuickTime movie files that play back every stroke and change I made during the creation. The effect is that you can literally watch the work being created!

Once I’ve exported the video from Brushes, I import it into Apple’s iMovie where i add titles, credits, and links. I then use Apple’s Garage Band and in the case of “Gingered Torso,” I simply used an existing loop called “Night City.”

I very much appreciate it when other iPhonographers and iPad Artists include a list of the apps they use. I’m very happy to not only provide a list of apps used, but to also be able to provide a video of the work actually being created. There were over 850 editing steps in Brushes alone, and prior to that many steps in other apps.

My work is a little different than the regular Brushes galleries you’ll find on the Brushes website gallery and Brushes Flickr group. Because I’m using photographs, textures, and layer blending modes, my video exports look more like flashes of photos and less like automated drawings and paintings. But, for photographers who are experimenting with the amazing photography and painting apps on their iPhones and iPads, I thought my creation process would be fun to see.

Exhibition details:

Location: Frame Arts Hawaii
Address: 627 South St., Honolulu, Hawaii
Dates: April 1 – April 30, 2011
Opening Reception: April 1, 2011. 6 – 9pm
Times: Monday – Friday 9:30 am – 5:30 pm, Saturdays 9:30 am – 1:00 pm