Thank you to mydailycreativity for giving me this award! I read these articles often and they are always entertaining. There is a good challenge going on over there… check it out!
In order to claim the Kreativ Blogger Award here’s what I and the next lucky recipients need to do:
1. Thank the blogger who gave you the award and provide a link.
2. List 7 things about yourself that your readers might find interesting
Michelle Curiel is an artist who lives in Hollywood, CA. She is a lady of many talents but I greatly enjoy her colorful sketchbook illustrations. It seems as if it is a way for her to vent and relax. It gives you a peek into her mind. They are mindful doodles, if you will…
I first found michelle on Instagram, an app for cell phones. I, then, was perusing Deviant Art a short time afterward and found her on there so I began to follow her work. Read the whole post
When I logged into my blog yesterday I had noticed that my views went through the roof and I had about 100 comments that needed tended to. What is going on? I was FRESHLY PRESSED! Great, but what exactly does that mean? I had seen the freshly pressed page and had looked at the posts before but I thought they were all chosen at random. I decided to do some research on it because I kept seeing “Congrats on being freshly pressed” in my comments section. Read the whole post
I gave you an idea of what to give the girl in your life for Valentine’s Day and a few of you emailed me and asked what I recommend you give the men in your lives. Here are some suggestions for you. Very last minute though.
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Men, if you have anything to add please feel free to do so! Read the whole post
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
When I first started reading this book I was annoyed at how long it took the author to get her point across. It seemed like I could skip 3 pages every time she started a new topic and I would still know what she was talking about.
As I moved further into the book I became more intrigued. Read the whole post
I found this article with pictures at Mail One. Amazing! I love it and wanted to share it.
Thus guy is my hero! Creative and ambitious!
Sometimes it is hard to find inspiration. Believe me, I know. You are feeling creative and really want to just throw some paint on a canvas but you sit there staring at your paints and fiddling with your paintbrush because you have no idea what to make. You could do the Jackson Pollock thing and just splatter it, but will that get it all of your emotion on to the canvas? Maybe some days.
I like to search new places to find inspiration. Read the whole post
In the past few months I have been finding inspiration from fewer and fewer sources because everything I see looks the same. This makes me sad. I’m sure you have heard the quote “good artists borrow, great artists steal”… I never want to be that girl. So, every time I find an artist that is unique I feel the need to praise this person for being themselves. These artists show the world who they really are, what they really feel. Read the whole post
I found an interesting article. It was worth the read for me; maybe it will be for you as well. Please visit the source for Parts One and Two!
Welcome to the third part of a three-part series on whether creatives need college degrees or not to be successful. In Part One, I featured a Q&A with industry veterans. Read the whole post
from Julie Heffernan’s Constructions of Self
Julie Heffernan creates sensuous figurative painting, like co-Yale MFAS, John Currin and Linda Yuskavage, but her luminous oils are patently unique among them and most working artists today. A Victorian impetus to conjoin, edging toward pastiche, creates artfully staged Surrealist environments. They avoid the mawkish or macabre by virtue of an evocative 17th century Baroque styling and the dignity with which she handles her primary subject, herself. Good construction is essential to the success of such works, built of disparate things suggesting disparate philosophies and ages. Read the whole post
