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Lesley

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Time, Worn: Kathe Fraga

I may have mentioned before how enchanting I’m finding our new temporary home.  Eureka’s Victorian architecture is very well preserved, many of the buildings have been lovingly restored or revamped.  There is such beauty, grace and elegance to be…

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Finding My Own Artsy: Feminine Wiles, Painting Eight

You know what made for a perfect Sunday afternoon for a young Artsy Forager?  A few lazy, rainy hours and Pillow Talk on my parents’ bedroom TV.  If I was ever tempted to trade my brunette locks for blonde,…

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Earthly Balance: Hannah Chalew

This planet we live on is an incredible example of a delicate balancing.  I’m always amazed to read stories about the ripple effect one tiny plant or micro organism may have on an entire eco-culture.  Often it is man…

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Design Foraging: Elke Sada Ceramics

Mr. F & I were chatting the other day about the long list of things we’d both like to try our hands at– high on my list?  Pottery and/or ceramics.  It’s always been one of my favorite mediums and…

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Messy Humanities: Alex Kanevsky

There are artists whose work inspires one of two reactions in me– either I want to strive to be even a fraction as good as they are or I want to throw my brushes down and never pick them…

Color Harvest

Color Harvest: Saturated Spring

Often when we think of spring, our thoughts turn to light, pale pastels but this season, I’ve noticed just how saturated everything around me seems.  Maybe it’s just a shock to my eyes following the white and grey winter…

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Ambiguous Distillations: Robert Atwell

Remember that tendency towards simplicity I mentioned yesterday?  We’re continuing on that theme today!  Wisconsin based artist Robert Atwell creates striking paintings using shapes so simple they are almost instantly recognizable, yet still remain ambiguous. Atwell draws upon his graphics…

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Modern Camp: Eugenia Loli

I’m kind of a bit bi-polar sometimes when it comes to artwork.. I either fall for work that is super textured, busy, crazy with color and line and visuals, or I do a complete 180 and find myself falling…

Daily Artsy Figurative Sculpture

Overtaken: Jess Riva Cooper

While we were hiking last weekend, Mr. F & I spotted something we’d never quite seen before.  We’re familiar with nurse logs, but noticed several trees whose roots had grown over and around a fallen redwood.  In her Viral…

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Finding My Own Artsy: Feminine Wiles, Painting Seven

Or maybe it would have been more appropriate for this to be Painting 8.  This seventh painting in my series of small color studies, Feminine Wiles, is based on Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8.  Elizabeth Taylor plays Gloria Wandrous,…