It has been a long time since I took the time to blog. I apologize for my neglect. I have been very busy. I have been learning and creating. Though the creating is the best part. I haven't actually painted an acrylic in quite some time, though I replaced old paint a couple of months ago. So last Sunday I put down a drop cloth, put a canvas on an easel, and started to paint. The painting is called "Dawn Of The Storm", which I will show you below. I am so excited about the new art that can be seen at the Gallery or at my RL website. "Carman Turner Fine Art"  I will also be displaying one digital Fractal paintng, called "Flowers In Vase". My secret identity has been revealed! Hehe! You will see that my real name is displayed on some of the art in SL, as well as my Avatar name.

"Dawn Of The Storm"

"Flowers In Vase"

I have a website for my RL art and photography and you too can get your own website by clicking through the advertisement below.

It has been an interesting month for the gallery and me. From the Lilith Cates exhibit opening party, to the Summer Sunrise and Sunset hunt and then to an addition to the gallery for unique frames which I am now designing and making for sale.
To start off I am posting just a few of the opening photos.

Our Artist Lilith and Jonatar	MJ Rainforest our DJ
A crowded Gallery	People having fun
Emma (Me)

I have been a busy Curator and Artist. I found a cool program in SL that pre-configures Blender. The program is Jass and it takes blender and adds the python scripts and primstar all into one very easy to use program for creating sculpty for SL. I then have been taking the tutorials that are available by having primstar and Jass. The results are amazing. I have had Blender installed on both of my computers for a long time, but have been totally clueless as to how to use it. The 2 tutorials I previously took are for people that already have an idea as to what the program is. Installing the python scripts into Blender was not clearly explained and I felt unqualified to do it on my own after several attempts. Jass made it really easy, as all was done for me on installation. So, with just a couple of tutorials I was able to do what I have been wanting to do. Make some frames for sale in the gallery. I also was playing around with a sculpt torus and made what was looking like a shark, so I continued manipulating it. The result was a 4 prim sculpture with 3 sculpt and one regular prim. Not bad for a first attempt at sculptures. It is near the landing point in the gallery.
Emmalena Damour's Art Gallery and Photo Studio

Below are a couple of photos of the Frame Shop I added to the gallery and the Shark Sculture which I appropriately named Jumping Through Fire!

The new Frame Shop addition.	One of the new frames.
Another of the new frames.	Many frames available.
Heart Frame	Jumping Through Fire

News at the Gallery!
Finally starting with guest artists again. Since I now own the land at this location I am starting the guest artists back up. When I was renting the land I could not use SL Events to post exhibits, so I gave up on having guest artists. Now I am once again in full swing with guest artists. I am also organizing a hunt. The hunt is called the Summer Sunrise and Sunset Hunt. The hunt starts on July 15 and goes through August 15th.
Summer Sunrise and Sunset Hunt Blog
My new guest artist, Lilith Cates will be hanging her work on Thursday July 5, 2012. She will be hanging RL artwork that has been adapted to be hung in Second Life. I have seen some of this work and it is exhilarating! There will be a party for the exhibit on Tuesday July 10th at 6pm SLT. I hope to see you all there.Emmalena Damour's Art Gallery


This is a quote from Lilith's Bio!
"I have been creating all different forms of art for over 30 years.
I use many different art forms Drawing, painting, chalks, photography, wood carving, marble carving, pottery,  and many other types of creative outlets.

I am inspired by the universe... "

Here is some of Lilith's Art.

New Artworks by Emmalena Damour

New SL artwork My apology for being remiss on keeping this blog up to date. Things have transpired that took my passion for the blog,second life, the gallery and the art. I have now come full turn and have been able to survive the issues. I had to get rid of the sl land I had for financial reasons. The new gallery location was on a friends land and I have not had land privileges so it has been difficult to run as it should be. I have recently decided I need to be creative and continue with a rebirth of the type of art I display for myself. I have been creating. Then this week the land owner sold me the land the gallery is on for 0L Bless her. I can now advertise and run things as they should be. This would include me being able to have live music and Dj's for events, and be able to change the stream for those events. It would also allow me to advertise once again in SL Events, which makes a big difference in getting new people into the gallery.
There are a couple of boards on the top floor in the gallery with some recent photography and artwork. There is also a wall in the back behind the dance floor that has a new type of art for me. These were originally photographs taken in sl, but they have been manipulated into a new form of art for me. So Please come by and see the new artwork.

Here are examples of the new art.

So please come and see the art in the Gallery. Also check out the rental area, for other artists, located on the lower level. You can get there either by using the elevator and go to floor 1, the stairs on the side of the building, or the teleporter on each level.
I am looking forward to seeing you all there!

I appreciate all input.

Emma