Archive for September, 2010
Last Thursday, CanvasPop was was on hand at the new photo exhibition, Highways, People, Places + Good Times at The General Studio.
Photographers Chris Schlesak and John Kealey displayed their vivid photos of highways, roads and interchanges to a packed house of family, friends and interested third parties.
CanvasPop supplied all of the canvas photo printing for the show and was happy to be one of the main sponsors of the event.
Are you a professional photographer looking to give your images some “pop”? Let us know.
Customer Name: Keng-Fu Chu
Size: 16 x 20, 1.5″ frame depth
Title: Sleeping General
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
Website: http://www.fu-design.com
Staff pick by: Melissa
Why do you love it?: “I’ve always had a keen interest in digital art, and this piece certainly stands out. The rich and bright colors combined with the fun, cartoonish mood of the piece itself make for art that I can’t take my eyes off of!”
With summer nearing its end, CanvasPop would like to help you relive those memories of the sun, the beach, the cottage, and of course, not working.
We’re launching the CanvasPop “My Summer Vacation on Canvas” photo contest today. Send us your best summer vacation photos for a chance to win a free CanvasPop custom photo canvas.
Simply post your best summer vacation photo on the CanvasPop Facebook wall with the title “My Summer Vacation on Canvas”. You can also enter by sending a tweet to @CanvasPop with the phrase “I just entered the CanvasPop My Summer Vacation on Canvas photo contest #cpcontest” and include a twitpic or other link to your photo.
Just for sending us your summer photo you’ll receive a $25 CanvasPop coupon.
CanvasPop will select three finalists from all submitted entries. The final three photos will then be posted on our Facebook wall for the community to pick the winner. You can vote for your favourite by clicking the “Like” button under the photo you want to win.
The grand prize winner will receive a free 24×36 CanvasPop custom photo canvas of their winning entry. The two finalists will receive a $80 gift certificate for CanvasPop.
The contest only runs until the end of next week so get your photos in to us by Friday, September 24, 2010.
Only 277 days until summer 2011.
At CanvasPop we love great art, and every time we get a chance, we love to support up-and-coming artists.
On September 4, we had the honour of attending a great art show sponsored by our friends at Fuel Industries at La Petit Mort Gallery.
A few of Fuel’s talented graphic artists and designers were on hand to display some of their original works of art — with a small assist from CanvasPop.
Fuel Industries Lead Illustrator/Concept Artist, Stephen Daggit, was on hand displaying some of his fantastic digital art including Cardinal Sin and a piece that was featured on the CanvasPop blog, King of the Kong.
“You can never really tell what it is going to look like until you see it on canvas,” said Stephen at the show.
CanvasPop is proud to have helped bring that art to life by supplying Stephen with canvas mounting services for the show.
Stephen’s colleague, Crystal Wall Lancaster, Lead illustrator at Fuel, was also at the show featuring some of her unique digital art and paintings.
Crystal’s signature style features female figures with “round faces framing extravagant eyes, pouted lips replacing chins, and very long necks”. Basically the girls who wouldn’t talk to me in high school.
Crystal was grateful for the support of her employer, Fuel, and thrilled to be supported in her personal artistic endeavors as well.
The canvases for Crystal’s digital art were also supplied by CanvasPop.
Also on display that evening was the debut of a cute and funny animated video by Fuel’s Jessica Borutski called “The Good Little Bunny With The Big Bad Teeth” that reminded us all of the importance of good oral hygiene. Time to go brush my teeth.
Customer Name: Garret Hopper
Size: 16×24 unframed canvas
Title: “Home”
About the piece: “That picture was taken at 4 a.m. at a small lake in BC’s interior. Everything just seemed to align to make an exceptional photo!”
Staff pick by: Ben
Why do you love it?: “Everything about the photo perfectly captures the break of dawn at a small, secluded lake. The pink from the sun creeping over the trees, the fog still lingering in the air, and the perfectly still water…everything comes together to make a great shot!”
Customer Name: Christopher Schlesak
Size: 28 x 72 (triptych, three 24 x 28 panels), 1.5″ frame depth.
Title: Vancouver Skyline
Website: http://www.thegeneralstudio.com
Staff pick by: Chris
Why do you love it?: “I like this print because of the light it shines on the beautiful city of Vancouver, British Columbia. It’s a city that speaks volumes about the diversity that Canada embraces. This image is as electric as the city itself.”
Customer Name: Stephen Daggitt
Size: 22 x 34 canvas print, 1.5″ frame depth.
Title: King of the Kong
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Website: http://stephendaggitt.blogspot.com
Staff pick by: Adrian
Why do you love it?: “This black and white digital art print has an awesome vibe to it. I love the use of negative space and its chaotic nature. Plus I’m a big fan of gorillas in general 
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