Feeling artistically dry? These twelve articles will quench your thirst.

• Who knew crosswalks  could be such fun?
• Good news for art lovers and art bloggers.
• Scary garden sculptures.
• And now for something beautiful: things to be thankful for.
• The power of the internet.
• Antoni Gaudi’s Casa Battlo in Barcelona.
• Ballet dancers in the streets of Cuba.
• Art as escape.
• This 16-year-old girl teaches psychology at a Mexican school for the gifted while finishing up her doctorate in law. She discusses the problems of educating the gifted.
• I love quilt guild show-and-tells.
• One of my favorite artists talks about how she uses her sketchbook on a daily basis.
• Paintings of California hills (before the fires).