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Dan Koon - Writer & Artist
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Dan Koon - Fine Art Registry™ Columnist

Writer & Artist

Dan Koon has 20 years experience writing in technical subjects, marketing and advertising and has collaborated on several books. He has turned his energies to painting and writing about the art world.

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April 3, 2008:
Karen Brown Karen Brown: Recapturing a Glimpse of Lost Elegance
"I paint what I call ’fashion art,’" says artist Karen Brown, "because it’s refreshing to see images of elegance and femininity in a world of casual conformity. I believe these are qualities that... Read More


March 31, 2008:
Keeping Track of the Past Keeping Track of the Past: Investing for the Future
Collector Milton Luban Turns to Fine Art Registry. Oh sure, it starts innocently enough: a kid wants baseball cards of his heroes on the local team or maybe an autograph, whose occult powers will... Read More


February 1, 2008:
Joan Altabe Joan Altabe: An Art Critic Who Creates Art
Most visitors to this website know Joan Altabe from her continuing series An Open Letter to Artists (from an Art Critic). Newspaper readers in Florida know her as the highly knowledgeable and... Read More


December 31, 2007:
Steven Chandler Steven Chandler: The Georgia Red Mud Painter
Someday, not too long from now, judging by the way things are going, Georgia folk artist Steven Chandler will be able to rock back and forth contentedly on the porch of his art empire, wave an ar... Read More


November 6, 2007:
Ebrahim Amin Ebrahim Amin: Southern California Plein Air Master
"I know I am always in a state of learning. And thus always look forward to studying new aspects of art. I therefore am continuously excited at what I might discover tomorrow, in a month, or even... Read More


August 31, 2007:
Marketing and Selling Your Art Part III Marketing and Selling Your Art Part III: Leveling the Playing Field
As we mentioned in Part 2, someone around the time of the Renaissance had a novel idea, which, articulated, could be "Maybe God is not the measure of all things. Maybe man is." Whether or not... Read More


August 16, 2007:
Guy Lindenmuth Guy Lindenmuth: A Self-Taught Artist in the Tradition of Yves Klein
...not Grandma Moses. It’s more from this freer, more serendipitous branch of the self-taught tree that Guy Lindenmuth is emerging onto the scene. While most in the self-taught, Outsider, folk... Read More


August 13, 2007:
Marketing and Selling Your Art Part II Marketing and Selling Your Art Part II: Different Ways Artists Managed Throughout History
In our opening article, we established the understanding that some kind of exchange has to occur if one is going to continue to call oneself an artist and not, say, an art teacher or an art write... Read More


July 9, 2007:
Michael Trant Michael Trant: According to Plan
"When I paint, the canvas directs the action. It’s all about the release of energy. Shapes cling to the edge of reality, their meanings formed by a growing collective imagination. The transferenc... Read More


June 26, 2007:
Steven Pon Steven Pon: Realizing a Lifelong Ambition
Musicians are fond of saying that music is a universal language. And it is. But not more so than art. You can place the earliest cave paintings, a Greek marble, a Rembrandt self-portrait and one... Read More


June 4, 2007:
Christian Early Christian Early: Special Art from Special Needs
This is more than a story about an artist and his art. You look at Christian Early’s portraits of animals and each one seems to possess a distinct personality. While you’re gazing at them... Read More


April 27, 2007:
Catherine Puma Catherine Puma: An Emerging Artist's Paintings Stir the Imagination
When asked what she intends with her art, Chicago based artist Catherine Puma replies, "I love recreating beautiful landscapes of places I’ve traveled to before because I’m able to relive... Read More


March 27, 2007:
Anna Kurowska Anna Kurowska: An Eastern European Transplant Flourishes in Silicon Valley
Well, for all its problems, America can still be a land of opportunity, if you ask painter Anna Kurowska. Growing up in the small city of Ozorkow in central Poland, Anna did not have much... Read More


March 5, 2007:
Lisa Wray Lisa Wray: Art Where Technology and Spirituality Converge
One could easily make an argument that the Impressionist movement in art would never have happened had it not been for the invention of the collapsible tin tube in the 1840s. Before then, artists... Read More


January 2, 2007:
Vanessa Newton Vanessa Newton: Modern Day Scribe of Life
There’s no telling what will spark a person down a certain path in life. In the late ’60s a young teacher walked into the classroom of a small community school in Newark, New Jersey. She opened... Read More


November 1, 2006:
Josie Taglienti Josie Taglienti: A Vibrant Artist Making Vibrant Art
"I have used oil, ink, acrylic, watercolor, all the usual media," she says. "Then I met pastel. I do not remember when exactly I discovered pastel as a serious method of dispensing color... Read More


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