Eyeball Maze for kids!

Eyeball Maze

Coloring Contest!
Here is a free printable maze for kids to do. This wacky fun maze is great for younger kids to solve and color. Any young artist that colors in a full page of this maze and e-mails be a picture will be featured right here on the Bearded Bunny Blog. I want to see how colorful you can make it!

I make free printable mazes as often as I can, and you can browse my collection of free mazes online.

Feel free to browse this blog for all kinds of other fun art projects and games.

Sketchbook Friday: I am made of squirrels

Sitting in the break room at work, I saw a piece of scrap paper and a pen. I drew this. I thought of some very random word bubbles and then left it behind. I love left behind art, and hidden art. If you follow me around a lot you can collect a whole bunch of random sketches. Each Friday at noon I scan in one new sketch or drawing from one of my many sketchbooks. Many times my sketches are ideas for larger projects that you might find on my fine art website William Hessian dot com, or as projects right here on my Bearded Bunny art blog. If you enjoy these sketches make sure to also see my Favorite 20 sketches from 2011 or go back and check out all of the sketchbook friday posts.

If you want to own some of my work, you can always find great deals on my artwork and stickers at my Etsy shop.  Do not forget to subscribe to my blog and never miss another post.

Announcement: Northville, Michigan Art Hunt in Summer of 2012

The Miniature Art Hunt

June 22-23rd, 2012

The Northville Community Business Association is proud to present the 2nd annual Northville Miniature Art Hunt on Saturday, June 23 during the Arts and Acts festival. Established by artist William Hessian, the free hunt features miniature works of art that will be hidden "in plain sight" inside 10 businesses in downtown Northville. Families as well as individuals are invited to explore these stores and find the work of art.

Similar to letterboxing, the art is left in place when found but finders get their Northville Miniature Art Hunt playing card stamped at each business. When a participant finds all 10 pieces of art and receives 10 stamps, the playing card can be turned into the Art in the Sun Information Booth at Main and Center and redeemed for a prize.

More information and the free Northville Miniature Art Hunt playing cards will be at the Information Booth at Art in the Sun on Friday and Saturday, June 22 and 23. The Art Hunt begins at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 23 and will conclude that same day at 5:00 p.m. Visitors to the Information Booth will also be invited to "Meet, Greet & Draw" with the artist, William Hessian throughout the weekend.

To see the photo gallery, last years events photo gallery and stay up to date with the 2012 art hunt:

You can bookmark this site: http://williamhessian.com/projects/northvillemichigan.html

Do not forget to subscribe to this blog to see exclusive pictures of the miniature artworks being made, special art hunt clues, and other announcements and projects from the artist.

In Northville, Michigan

The Miniature Phoenix

Here are some promo photos displaying the original artwork to hidden during the Portland Maine Art Hunt. The art hunt starts May 21st, and 10 clues will appear on www.williamhessian.com at 8am!

Miniature Art Hunt announced for Portland, Maine in 2011

See the official Portland Maine Art Hunt website.

In the Spring of 2011 a miniature art hunt will be taking place in the public parks of Portland, Maine. Photographs of the hidden locations will be released giving visual clues to the location of the artwork. The winners keep the original artwork and win an additional prize.

In the past five years, William Hessian has performed a dozen free miniature art hunts that are open to the public all across the country. These art hunts have been performed in California, Oregon, Salt Lake City, Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota. Including an upcoming hunt in Michigan in summer of 2011.

To make sure you do not miss out on news about the Portland 'art as treasure' treasure hunt make sure to subscribe to this blog by entering your e-mail into the box in the upper right hand corner of this blog.

Here is the poster and a few additional photos from past 'Art as Treasure' art hunts:

Hidden art at the Wedge and Robot LOVE

I've hidden art in plain sight at two of my favorite shops in Minneapolis. One is my favorite food co-op called the Wedge and the other is a store selling designer toys and other great art, called Robot LOVE. Those of you familiar with Uptown, Minneapolis will recognize these areas quite well.

While the move to North East Minneapolis has been a fun adventure, I will admit I missed living on Lyndale Ave.

It's always fun to insert free art into the places you love.

Free Hidden Tax Art

This is my second contribution to free art friday, the flickr group I join a few weeks ago. There is a such a great group of artists on that site, and given my extensive history with hidden art, I had to get involved. Here is my latest contribution:



Click images to enlarge. I found a few missing bricks in a massive storage shed, which im not sure is even being used. We found a litter of wild cats living in one of them.


I enjoy this photo since it combines snow, mud, and steel; not to mention the hidden art peeking out of it all. My shoes did get muddy during the hide.



Here are the massive cat barns. Cool old buildings, that are falling apart. fun to look at, probably less fun to own or manage.



Here is a close up of the art. It was acrylic paint on an unused 1040 tax form. Finally, tax forms put to good use.

Underground Hidden Art

When ever i get a few minutes, I try to google or flickr search for hidden art. I have a strong affinity for free hidden art projects, as you probably know from the dozen free miniature art hunts I have done the past 48 months.

In my search today, I found two really amazing artists you should all check out. A mixture of hidden art, graffiti art, political art and much more. I was lucky enough to find them and then spent a good amount of time browsing their work.

The first artist is Sammo371, who is creating amazing art and "Take it! It's Yours" projects hiding his art in odd public locations. I find his work to be exactly the type of thing I love, and think the art, the photos and the way in which he performs the act to be really phenomenal. Here is a great photo with a tiny artwork he has left. Make sure to see more of Sammo's guerrilla art projects




Never2501 was the next artist I found, and find his robots really cool. However, his murals on old abandoned structures are simply breathtaking. It was hard picking out which one to use to show you, but this was one of my favorites. Especially since it is gigantic, and really beautiful. Never2501 also is doing many art projects that directly speak to me, and to my interests, with the hidden art, murals, monsters and robots. There is not much more you can ask for in an artist in my book. Make sure to see more of Never's work.




While browsing those two artists, I then stumbled across one of the coolest sites ever: The Wooster Collective. It is just something you need to go browse for yourself. It may be my new homepage.



If you enjoyed this post, make sure to see my ever growing Complete Guide to Hidden Art

Art as Treasure (art tour 2008)

This is my brand new art tour flyers. I am beginning the mailing process to try to drum up awareness and support for my art tour in 2008. Please check out my website which explains more about my art tour, how you can help, and how to donate and get a free bearded bunny print! Art Tour 2008

Thanks for any support you can give me!


See also my Robot Bunny post.
Do not forget to see all of my airbrushing blog posts .

Man-At-Arms Art

FREE ART PRINTS

You are the very first person to know about my special offer. It has not been released publically just yet. To get a free bearded bunny print, go to my art tour 2008 website, and donate any amount of money to help support my art tour and I will send you a free bearded bunny print. You can also send in donation through the mail by check, cash or money order (checks made out to william hessian). While supplies last!

Once you have donated you simply need to make sure you e-mail me at:

william.hessian@gmail.com

and provide this information:

name:
address:
amount donated, when, how:
the bearded bunny you wish to recieve:

Your bearded bunny will promptly be put in the mail to your address.

Your donation will help fund my cross country art tour from Minnesota to California and back. Along the way I will be hiding original miniature paintings in small art cities and painting in public parks. Any help is appreciated!




Masters of the Universe

Man-At-Arms and ORKO are my two first releases of my ten He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series. Battle cat, He-Man and the Sorceress are next to appear. The Eternia bunnies are in special prints not available to the general public, they can only be recieved be donating to the art tour as explained above. Tell your friends.

My ongoing bearded bunnies series is available for sale on Etsy.com. I will be opening my free bearded bunnies offer to everyone by the end of the month. If there are any bunnies you cannot live without, please act fast before they are all gone.



In the meantime please check out my past creations like the Bob Dylan bunny, the Tower of Bunnies, and my Ripple Self Portrait

Free printable mazes from 4 great websites!

First off all, you can get mazes from ME (william hessian)! click over to see my free printable mazes and pick your favorites, like my dragon maze:

Day 160
I am friends with Warren Stokes who owns A-MAZE-ING.com. On linked in I saw his post to the Maze A Day blog. These are incredible mazes. You should check them out. Plus a new one each day!



Labyrinth
Some of the most difficult mazes I have attempted in a while. Very expertly crafted for diffiulty, and extremely well designed. I am a big fan of this type of very engrossing mazes. See more at:
Astrolog Maze's





Team of Monkeys

Team of Monkeys has a great variety of really cool printable mazes for you to complete. I really like the originality of these mazes. Exceptional stuff.