Thursday, November 22, 2012
Have you read any of these articles?
My favorite is: The Lived Experience Of Making A Life Drawing: Drawing Amy Brooks, Margaret When a model sits for you for six to eighteen hours there is a tension that does not exist in other drawings. There is a commitment to the model and her effort. The time is set and framed. The model as...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Why?
Prosecutors: Man Stabbed Grandmother 111 Times As the details and facts are revealed and discussed about this heinous crime it becomes more disturbing to think of what it took for one human being to do something so dreadful and evil to anything else. The reality is any normal mind does not have a...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Got Art?
Illuminate Pallets The yellow and green hues give an uneasy edginess to Vincent Van Gogh's 1888 painting entitled, "The Night Cafe". The true luminosity of oil pigment cannot be realized in a photographic reproduction or in a print. Therefore, Vincint's use of raw umber for the under-painting is...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
How can recovering hoarders know what to keep?
It really is a long journey for them. Something I have done is create a pantry of clutter for one of my clients. We named it "The Store", because the shelves are behind louvered doors and when they are closed, it just looks like an elegant closet. Open it and voila, there is a quasi second hand...
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
Has Bonzo Gone Ape?
I might be in denile, but one of my trained monkeys has gone ape! Still sleepy and before I could rub the dust out of eyes, Gonzo had jumped up on my pallet and was picking the lice out of hair, preening as if I were one of his own Happy for another daybreak, I put on my sandals and grab the baskets...
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Creative Juices Flowing? Bookmark this one:
Ten Habits of Successful Artists By Geoffrey Gorman, courtesy of New York Foundation for the Arts By analyzing and looking at the careers of other successful artists I have identified the habits that help them succeed. When you meet professional artists, take some time to note which of these habits...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
What about the 9%...
GET READY FOR THIS! The graduation rate from the University of Phoenix is below 10% percent per year. Ninety percent of students fail to graduate and are left with nondischargeable debt, which follows them for life with deleterious consequences. This outrage while we as taxpayers pick up the cost of...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
Have you met Cody Rutty Artist?
Check out his time lapse videos! Quail Path Productions Introducing Cody...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Why not arrest the guilty 1%, wouldn't that be easier ?
Family Guy's writer doesn't count: Check Mate.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
How can we save our planet or go green if we remain toxic consumers?
This is just one of the questions presented in the 2007 documentary film called The Story of Stuff. Immediately, this subject grabbed my attention because it is presented in such a user-friendly way. Simply put, “the World is obsessed with consuming stuff. We trash the planet, each other and we...
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