Review

Being uncomfortable is most often thought of as a way to have a breakthrough on what ever kind of creativity process you are working on.
After struggling for the last month or so, I am not so sure that being uncomfortable is everyones salvation.
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Summer seems to be a time for books – it’s a good thing!

*Los Angeles Black Book Expo – Sat., June 14, 2008

The Los Angeles Black Book Expo (LABBX) 2008 will feature authors, storytellers, spoken word and poetry performances, musicians, exhibitors, children’s book authors, emerging writers, publishers, booksellers, [...]

Here are three artists who have inspired and influenced me. I occasionally will see something in my paintings that reminds me of the many artists that I admire.

Reginald Marsh

Jacob Lawrence

Richard
Diebenkorn

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“Art Thursdays”, drawing and watercolor classes for beginning and intermediate
artists and a plein air open studio, to be held in Cave Creek beginning on January 17, 2008.
The classes will run for 8 weeks, through March 6.
“Beginning Drawing” will be taught by Larry Charles on Thursdays from 9 am to noon and Bill Lundquist will [...]

Last weekend we traveled to Vegas for a wedding and was surprised that most the people I saw looked nothing like the commercials.
What happens here, stays here.
They took it with them and I was disappointed. There were the young guys with two beers in their hands, drawing as much attention to themselves as possible, screaming [...]

“The Harlem Book Fair” is returning to the Hartford, CT, Public Library on Saturday, Sept. 15th, 2007 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Besides books, there will be poetry readings, panel discussions, music, dance, and cartoon workshop for kids.
500 Main St., Hartford, CT 06103
For information: 860-695-6324
http://ww2.hplct.org/harlembookfair/
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I am most likely the least positive thinking person in my family and feel sometimes overwhelmed with all the happy thoughts going around here. But it works, it does make a difference to the people you come in contact with.  Cybel’s post today on Auntie Carrie illustrates how little you need to do in order [...]

I’ve made mention in an earlier post that I love painting heads. I experiment with colors and brush work. I start off with a vision of what I want to get down on the canvas. Sometimes I get close to what I had in mind. Often I am so far away from my original intent [...]

The way things work out, it can take a hell of a long time to realize that life is so much fun, when you’re having fun.

This is one in a series of small paintings I did for the Arts and Business Council of Phoenix.

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I’ve had the privilege to live in two areas of the country that yearly have what might seen as extreme weather. What I find fascinating is that in Alaska when the temperature rose to 10 below 0, it felt like a heat wave. Now living in Central Arizona, we are enjoying a very cool 103 [...]