National Summit on Arts Journalism
For many years I have been reading a daily posting of blogs and articles compiled by Arts Journal. They review over 200 sources daily for articles pertaining to the arts and to culture. There are additionally quite a number of regular journalists who blog there. I receive a daily as well as a weekly summary [...]
Art is Important
I have absolutely no idea what is going on here with these colors and the spacing. Obviously I am doing something wrong. Here is what you need to know – there are links to all the bloggers and articles embedded in this post! If you can’t find them, let me know because they are important. [...]
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Gratitude
My apologies for the wonky colors and spacing in this post. I am not sure what is going on, but at least you can read it for now! Andrea mentioned the other day the magic of the internet and computers. She talked about how we meet each other and share our thoughts and ideas in [...]
Emotions and Painting
Growing up in rural Virginia in the 1960′s and early 1970′s, I had very little exposure to art, in general, and no exposure to abstract art of any kind. As a child, my elementary school teachers would give poor grades for coloring outside the lines or for “using inappropriate color”. I always wanted to change [...]
Environmental Responsibility in the Painting Studio
You might wonder how I use my inspiration cache. Mainly, it is used for my own purposes and by keeping these elements (and they are not organized all that well) I seem to be inspired with more ideas than I can express. My journaling clearly helps me to clear out blocks in my own head [...]
Creating Your Own Inspiration Cache
One of the things I am trying to do with this blog is to create an inspirational reference point for other artists. While this particular blog venue is new for me, I am working to make the “Pages” section here a “go to” place to find out what has captured my interest and what kinds [...]