The first few months of my early days with Ziggy were magical. I could not believe I owned a horse and felt such great responsibility towards this beautiful being. It was summertime and I used to get up at 12 midnight and go out and talk and touch him because he was the most mysterious [...]
To commemorate DIY Santa Fe, Santa Fe Creative Tourism and the Inn and Spa at Loretto are giving away a two-night, art-inspired getaway to Santa Fe in March 2012. To enter, contestants can visit DIY Santa Fe to complete the entry form (located below), which asks contestants to summarize in 150-words or less, what [...]
Create rich dimensional surfaces as layers are built up with the mediums and media. Any theme or subject matter can be explored or developed on paper or other surfaces such as canvas or wood. The goal of the class is to experiment with ideas through layers of information that will lead to discovery and surprise.
An Artist’s Personal view on the Artist as a “Professional” (And Who and What decides this criteria, anyway?) Part II Part One Here August 2011 Recently piqued by a discussion on an online art business site about what criteria designates an artist as professional and how important is it be defined a “professional”, I developed [...]
by Part Two Here July 2011 Charging through channels on the TV the other day, I settled on a Gauguin biopic that culminates with the artist creating his masterpiece “D’ou venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous?” which translates into “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”. I have been asking myself [...]
