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In Motion by Lori Wolfson
It’s been great fun being here and sharing this wonderful blog, but it’s time for me to move on. My work here is done. The canvas calls me and I must attend.
Have a wonderful time all you artists and good luck in all you do. Until we meet again…
And thank you, Ariane, for the opportunity to spend this valuable and rewarding time here with you. You are one of a kind and, as an artist, I can’t tell you how much your support and work out there in the world for us all means to me!
Abstract 1/3 by Lori Wolfson
All is tumbling down. How to proceed safely? Where to step when everything is shifting? Like Alice, falling, falling, I wonder at the strangeness of my surroundings as I sink. What is this sudden hurtling rush of events and circumstances, and what am I to make of them?
Like the midpoint in a painting, when you’re far enough away from the beginning to…
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Rosemary Conroy – “Ravens Free Light”
Mary Whitehill – “Highlands 5″
In an earlier post I talked about going back into unfinished drawings and paintings with an abstracted and loosened approach, and how that served as a good vehicle for my re-entry into the world of making pictures. I continue to work like this on these old drawings, and in the process I am slowly and subtly becoming aware of my developing visual memory.
I remember when I was an art student my teachers would often talk about visual memory. They told of how…
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Marianne Post – “Spring Hilltop”
Strawberries and Chinese Cup - Oil on Linen Panel - 12" x 9" by Michael Lynn Adams
One of the best ways to see how you and your art travel around the web is to sign up for Google Alerts. I’ve done this for my name and also for the smARTist Telesummit.
Now, every day I receive one or more “Google alerts” in my inbox. Not only can you see where your name and art are showing up, these alerts provide a link so you can click to find out more. Once in a while the link lands me on page where I can’t find any mention, but more often I end up…
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Ibis
I have been thinking about art that is made as an offering of beauty to be shared, in contrast to art that is made as an enticement to critics and consumers. These days it seems like we are coming at it from the wrong direction, regarding art mainly as…
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This story is lifted from Living the Artist’s Life. It happened eleven years ago now, a good time to review past disasters, and recoveries. Something to remember in these times, when people might be wondering about the nature of “recovery.”
It was in March of 1997 that the manager of the Hotel Savoy, where my first gallery was housed, called me one Sunday night. He asked if I was watching TV…
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James Lane – “Renewal 8″
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Lascaux Cave - The Axial Gallery
No matter what they say about the cave paintings,
Why and how they were made,
One thing I know for sure from my own experience is…
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Sometimes it seems to me that art is an itch than can’t be scratched-yet must be scratched. Sometimes I love doing it and it is my bliss. It can feel like…I’m an eagle soaring effortlessly, and then I’m a…
Carol Steinberg on the set of "House"
This was just too kewl not to blog about: one of our very own smARTISTs has over a dozen of her paintings being used for “Adverse Events,” an episode of “House.”
It aired Tuesday (look at the end of this post if you missed it), Sept. 30, 2008.
The irony is: Carol Steinberg doesn’t even watch TV. But she has something else a lot more important than a TV, she has…
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I’m feeling the responsibility of the artist: to observe.
Carefully.
Taking it slowly.
Taking as long…
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