What is more fun than sharing a hobby with a friend? As well as getting together for painting sessions, my friend Barb and I frequently exchange our home grown “art” cards, proving that (for us, anyway) the U.S. Postal Service still provides the most enjoyable kind of mail! I’ve saved all of Barb’s personalized creations over the years! She began messing around [...]
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Find an Art Friend!
Posted in Art Therapy, Creative Living in a Condo, Don't forget to play!, Fauvism, Friends!, Funk and Funky, Greeting Card Art, The joy of experimenting with art, The joy of making a mess!, The joy of making art, Watercolor painting, Way out Creativity, YUPO paper, tagged Art Therapy, Card art, Creative Living in a Condo, Fun and Funky, Home made greeting cards, Watercolor painting, YUPO paper on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Art and the raging “isms” . . .
Posted in Art Therapy, Battling Closed Minds and Limited Imaginations, Collections, Creative Living in a Condo, Don't forget to play!, Fauvism, Funk and Funky, Impressionism, Movements in Art, Southwestern Art, The Beauty of "Hand Made", The Fun of Being Unconventional!, The joy of experimenting with art, The joy of making a mess!, The joy of making art, Way out Creativity, YUPO paper, tagged Art Therapy, Battling Unimaginative Minds, Creative Living in a Condo, Digitally enhanced art, Fauvism, Fun and Funky, Georgia O'Keeffe, Hand Made, Matisse, Monet, New Mexico, Paul Durand-Ruel, Santa Fe, Southwestern Art, Taos, The French Impressionists, The joy of art making, The Louvre, Van Gogh on August 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the many delightful adventures involved in finding a new life passion, is researching its history. Since I’ve been steeped and schooled in literature and the English language from little on, I’m no stranger to the craft of writing. But art history provides a whole new world for me to explore. Especially fascinating to me are the various [...]
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