I need to turn off the news I need to turn off my phone I need to go breathe some green air I need to sit softly alone I need to get off social media (this has been true for some years) All it does is add oil to the fire and inflame the red […]
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Article: Contextualizing “Land of Shadows” as a Postrace Black Detective Novel — Live Ideas
by Dene Dryden. Originally published in the Oct. 2019 edition of Live Ideas. Find it here. Rachel Howzell Hall’s Land of Shadows and its sequels make up a fairly new addition to the black detective fiction genre, published and set in 2014. Elouise “Lou” Norton is a black, female homicide detective in Los […]
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The Brain Project – work in progress — Where intricate beadwork meets precision of confocal microscopy
The Brain Project Earlier this year, my proposal got accepted to “The Brain Project” by Yogen Fruz and the Baycrest Foundation in Toronto. I was so excited when I got the acceptance email! As far as I remember, this is the first time I actually drew out the whole project before making it. My usual […]
April 2020 Beauty Favorites — A Spoonie’s Makeup Bag
Hey doll hey!!! How’s your day/night going? Great I hope. I had a pretty good day … but it’s night now here in Florida and I am starting to hurt pretty badly…. I think I over did it today. I noticed that I haven’t done any Monthly Beauty Favorites so I thought I’d start a […]
CBC Artists coping through Comics — Ed Aid Ontario
Coping with COVID through comics Whatever happens to Gracey Zhang, she draws — and long before COVID-19 was a thing, the Canadian illustrator had packed up her sketchbooks for Europe. The plan was to produce four new children’s books while living abroad. By March, however, she was quarantined in Lisbon, and though she’s since made it safely […]
Curved Lines and Roses — So Many Minis
For years, I have had a love for the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh an artist and architect from Glasgow. I like his graceful forms arranged in unexpected ways. The stylized roses that he and his wife Margaret used are now seen in many applications. In fact, here are three instances in our master bedroom. […]
Art with Ash Trees: Drawing by Jo Beal — Ash Tree Stream
As schools closed and the Ash Tree Stream exhibition was postponed (see more here), the participatory element of Ash Tree Stream temporarily moved online, with two free downloadable resources to get you all involved – Identifying Ash Trees and Making Art with Ash Trees. We are asking people to identify an Ash Tree near where […]
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Marsden Hartley — Theosophy & ARTS
Two slightly later American groups were keenly aware of theosophy, oriental philosophy, occultism and spiritualism. The first, loose grouping of Arthur Dove, Marasden Hartley, Georgia O’Keefe and the photographer Alfred Stieglitz added to this awareness a feeling for the mystical qualities of the American landscape. The second group, based in New Mexico and led by Raymond […]
Hart “Cartoon Animals” — Bob Amundson
Chris Hart is a prolific artist and author. He’s written a lot of books on drawing (as of this morning he has 120 books available on Amazon). And he has a YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/chrishartbooks Below are some drawings I did from How to Draw Cartoon Animals. The book contains dozens of examples starting with […]
Not Missing Sex — Salty Melons
Loving Quarantine? Am I Crazy? If you would had told me that I wouldn’t be missing sex or porn at all last year I would of said no way. My entire life took a pause on March 13, 2020, along with the entire world where we all went into quarantine. No more dates, no more […]
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