Sometimes I think I collect way too much stuff. Then I tell myself that a mixed media artist needs lots and lots of media to work with. I mean who can get really creative without drawers and drawers of supplies? If only I could keep up with all the ideas bouncing around in my head. [...] → Continue Reading Some great animation with beads.
It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon. The sun was out and I should have spent more time outside, but since I was still feeling a little under the weather I found myself, where else, sitting in front of the computer. I was looking for those nice Google web-publisher tools and since I never can remember [...] → Continue Reading Google has toys for artists too!
Well summer is not over yet and all I want now is for the month of August to last longer than our rainy spring did. I am back at work now after taking July off to enjoy visitor season here on the Island. So on that note here’s a summer photo that I enjoyed ‘photoshopping’ [...] → Continue Reading A summer photo
If you haven’t seen the ‘clayography’ feature ‘Mary and Max’ by Adam Elliot, writer, direction, production designer and designer of all the films characters you have missed seeing a great work of art as well as a movie. (It is out on DVD now and I will be getting it for my own collection.) Feature [...] → Continue Reading Mary and Max
“Richard Gregory, a prominent British neuropsychologist, estimates that visual perception is more than ninety percent memory and less than ten per cent sensory nerve signals.” That line from the first article in ‘The Best American Science Writing, 2009′ a book edited by Natalie Angier was part of my bedtime reading last night. I like reading [...] → Continue Reading What you see. . .