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Dec3
Video of the Week #282: An Artist Found a Way to Help the Homeless
Learn more about Brian Peterson and his foundation, Faces of Santa Anna.
Tag Archives: Portraits
Jul3
Creative Juice #197
ABC: Art. Beauty. Creativity.
- Amazing ancient sites.
- Maybe silver is the new blond.
- Some lovely interpretations of a Zentangle challenge.
- Twenty articles and videos on the craft of writing.
- Virtual choirs to soothe your hurting soul.
- Gorgeous hardanger.
- Sometimes the best creative advice is counter-intuitive.
- How our art affects those who love us.
- I love getting to see how this quilt designer’s brain works.
- How a girl of ten fell in love with poetry due to the intervention of her mother’s friend.
- Examining the process of a portrait painter.
- My sides are aching from laughing at these dog pictures.
Oct4
Creative Juice #158
Beautiful and interesting stuff here.
- Why doesn’t my library carry the book I wrote?
- Playing (and quilting) in the leaves.
- Writers: do you get sidetracked by Pinterest? Use it to hone your skills instead!
- The value of sketchbook journaling.
- Swing dancing. Great costumes!
- There’s lots of wisdom in this life advice.
- What happened when several people in town complained to police that someone was stealing their flowers.
- Something to do with all those fall leaves lying around.
- Why, if you’re making something you want to sell (art, a book, an app, an invention, a quilt pattern), you need to be a connoisseur of similar items.
- QuiltWeek 2019 Charlotte prize-winning quilts. (Click on small pictures to enlarge.)
- Scribbled portraits.
- Finding your passion.
May17
Creative Juice #139
Lots of inspiring stuff this week.
- Artists see differently than other people.
- An artist discusses a work by Jackson Pollack.
- An Austin neon sign artist.
- If you are of a certain age, you might enjoy these movie suggestions. Some rather nostalgic selections.
- The five most common regrets at the end of life—and how you can avoid them.
- I’m pretty sure I’ve heard these British phrases and totally misinterpreted them.
- A portrait that scandalized Paris.
- Rainbow-colored sculptures.
- This is how you pose with a statue.
- Why the invention of the flute was so revolutionary.
- Aerial photos of water.
- Zentangle challenge.
Dec22
My Favorite Photos of 2018
I enjoy taking photographs and sharing them on my blog. If I had to decide which of the photos I took in 2018 was my favorite, it would be one of these two pictures of my daughter Katie, taken when we celebrated my birthday by visiting Boyce Thompson Arboretum:
I didn’t even take them with my fancy DSLR camera. Katie handed me her smart phone and asked my to take a couple of shots of her with the mountain in the background. We’re both pleased with the results.
Dec7
Creative Juice #118
A banquet of ideas.
- Gorgeous street art.
- Ancient Egyptian mummy portraits.
- The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel done in cross stitch.
- What happens when a squirrel abandons her baby.
- A couple of pretty little quilts.
- Interactive guide to best books of 2018.
- Kids draw monsters, and professional artists re-imagine them.
- The most beautiful dolls I’ve ever seen.
- Mouse wonderland.
- Do your culinary creations sometimes not turn out as expected?
- New life for old dolls.
- School janitor makes art with his snowshovel.
Oct12
Creative Juice #110
A dozen articles to inspire you to new heights of creativity:
- Portrait photography.
- Before Picasso painted modern art.
- Aren’t you glad the internet didn’t exist when these classic books were written?
- Extraordinary painted rocks.
- Cool places to park your bike.
- Whimsical ceramics.
- An example of how social media helped a poet gain an audience.
- What happens when you invite an artist to a wedding.
- Some beautiful quilts.
- How to read at a deeper level.
- What to do with leftovers.
- Make this for your favorite shutterbug.
Oct5
Creative Juice #109
Things are not always what they seem.
- Before color film.
- You don’t have to use expensive editing programs to make fabulous photographs.
- Book nerd? Yeah, me, too.
- This short story took me for a ride.
- Some quick sketches and some more detailed drawings.
- Think you’d like to speed up time? Be careful what you wish for.
- Do you like puns? I laughed at almost every one of these.
- Amazing murals.
- Do you enjoy Christian fiction? Here’s a great reading list.
- Colorful umbrellas are a work of art.
- The science students of today are the rock stars of tomorrow.
- Lovely portraits of famous celebrities.
Aug10
Creative Juice #101
A dozen sips of cool inspiration.
- Lovely tangles.
- Light-hearted 3D doodles.
- New murals in Phoenix.
- A reading list for traveling.
- Some suggestions for kicking your creativity into gear.
- How some people clean their sewing rooms.
- I love to go for a stroll with Nathalie. She takes such cool pictures of artistic stuff.
- I know about Mexico’s Day of the Dead; I didn’t know Japan has a similar festival.
- Iran and Iraq were like this when I was young.
- Creative genius embraces paradox.
- The story of an incredible photograph.
- Cat portraits made out of wool.
Apr13
Creative Juice #89
Just in time for weekend reading:
- Embroidered portraits.
- What can you learn from Mozart?
- An interesting science connection to Van Gogh’s Starry Night.
- Life advice from an old barber.
- I can see me living in this houseboat.
- I thought maybe it was the mushroom, but that’s not what the mantis was high on.
- For anyone who shudders at the thought of public speaking.
- How to get stuff done. I’m fascinated with this guy’s daily schedule.
- Kyoto, Japan, seen through an artist’s eyes.
- Gorgeous tangles.
- Lovely sketchbook.
- Take a bird’s eye tour of Shanghai.
