Mark Rushton Gallery

Lately I've been getting into a good groove of livestreaming in the evenings. If, like me, you have full-time job, family responsibilities, and perhaps have another side business (I'm also a recording artist ), and like to go to the gym occasionally, then there's little time for art except on nights and weekends. You really have to carve out time.  I don't watch or read "the news".  I rarely watch movies, and they're always classics .  I don't watch episodic TV shows.  I do watch a little YouTube (mostly shows about cars , "fails" and dash cam videos, Azerbaijan cooking , and ragdoll cats .) What's motivating for me is hopping on Streamyard and getting live on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch for a little while.  These videos are later rebroadcast as recordings onto BitChute, Odysee, and Rumble.  As I like to say, "It's good to be everywhere..." I don't care how many people show up.  I'm sure other "content creator

The Marketing Department told me to have a Black Friday sale on the Mark Rushton Gallery for the next couple of weeks, and I complied.  I just sent the email... The sale is an automatic 25% off prints, tote bags, and magnetic art.  I thought that was the best way to go.  If there are any orders, I don't have to fulfill them - the vendor I'm partnered with handles that. I didn't include any original art in the Black Friday sale because I didn't want to overdo it.  This year's Black Friday sale is my first, and I consider it to be "practice".  Still, cleaning up the Prints section of my Gallery was quite a chore and took most of Saturday to get done.  I had initially set up my print store about 6 months ago, but everything needed a little adjustment.  After all that was done, I had to craft and proof the email. Every Sunday, I like to take a little bit of time to check my stats.  This week I changed the way I'm logging site visits and page views.  On t

  November 6, 2022 -  Hi everybody, it's Mark Rushton... My biggest sale of the year is here and gets you 25% off prints , tote bags , and magnetic art ! Had your eye on something?  Get it at the best possible price today. 3" x 3" magnet art starting at $5.10 in the Print store .  Start an art gallery on your fridge! Durable  Tote Bags  with cool-looking collage art, starting at $37.80: All the way up to a splashy and vibrant  40" x 80" massive print of " Distant Break " - 25% off! Thanks for following along! I'll have more announcements soon, including new music by Mark Rushton on Monday, November 7th! * Who is Mark Rushton?  I'm also a fine artist / painter, making original paintings, limited edition prints, and functional merchandise. I'm also a professional recording artist and fine artist who has managed to hang on to creativity.   I've released music and sounds since the early 2000s under many different names, including my own. 

Hi everybody, it's Mark Rushton of   Mark Rushton Gallery .  It's Sunday, October 30, 2022.  And this is my "Sunday Stats" and "Weekly Update" post. Night Landscape This week I added some "pivot points" to my gallery.  First up is " Night Landscape ", a monochromatic, acrylic ink on spun-bonded Olefin painting.  This painting, which was made during a livestream video, arrived quickly and with minimal effort.  Ah, if only all of them could show up like this! What makes "Night Landscape" kind of a pivot point is it being monochromatic. You're On Your Own The Way Out Is the Way In The second pivot points would be You're On Your Own and The Way Out Is the Way In , two small charcoal drawings on mixed media paper.  This led me to creating an entire section of the gallery devoted to drawings . The Great Seal of the State of Iowa (version 1) The last one is the new Collage section of the gallery.  I added three collage painti

Hi everybody, it's Mark Rushton of Mark Rushton Gallery .  It's Sunday, October 23, 2022.  And this is my "Sunday Stats" and "Weekly Update" post. After weeks of technical problems and outages, I think the internet is "mostly better" in my studio space.   I've been doing a lot of live streams in the evenings to test it out, and in different ways (direct ethernet, wifi, Streamyard, YouTube Live, recorded then uploaded...). While conducting these tests, I upgraded some of my equipment.  I got a new USB webcam (Logitech C920S - nothing fancy...) and I started using my Rode podcaster microphone.  Another thing I did was transition away from using my smartphone, or a sim-less older smartphone, over to a laptop with the camera and microphone plugged into it.  Again, it's nothing fancy.  Make do with what you've got.  But make changes when necessary. * And, yeah, about making changes...  I could go on for hours about that topic... I had though

I like to make videos: In the above video, I went "live" on Wednesday evening, October 19, 2022, thumbed through a couple of art books, showed off some past print collages, and worked on a new small painting. Looking through art books on video is a new thing I've been doing.  I prefer smaller books rather than those gigantic, 50 pound catalog raisonnes that cost hundreds of dollars.  I try to keep it witty and light-hearted, although I do indicate what kind of art I like and what I just don't get or never got. Another kind I make are "sped-up painting" videos, like Sleep of Dreams: These are easy to create using FilmForth, a cheap video editing program on Windows.  I can make these in about 5 minutes, including adding my music.  Rendering takes a few more minutes.  Then I upload and schedule the videos using my Streamyard account.  Eventually they're broadcast on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch, and afterwards end up automatically on other streaming sites