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Artsy on Escape Into Life: Sarah Ashley Longshore

Happy Tuesday, Artsies!  Make sure to head over to Escape Into Life to check out today’s feature on Artsy Forager fave Sarah Ashley Longshore.  One of her pieces would make any place more chic and fun, no? Sarah Ashley…

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Divine Delights: Olga Antonova

I’m a firm believer that anything you eat will taste better served on pretty china or a lovingly decorated table.  The work of Russian born artist Olga Antonova celebrates these every day objects, elevating them using her technical prowess…

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Complexity of Simplicity: Gigi Mills

Dance is one of the few art forms requiring no materials, only ourselves.  Santa Fe artist Gigi Mills, a former dancer now self-taught painter, transfers her dancer’s fluidity and grace into her compositions. Mills’ work focuses on simplified forms,…

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Friday Faves: With Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies

Each year, Pantone announces its “Color of the Year”.  The color authority combs the world looking for influential color and its Color of the Year proclamation affects design decisions in fashion, interiors, products, packaging, you name it.  This year’s…

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Collecting Glances:  Kris Lewis

George and I are people watchers.  Sometimes when the hubby and I are stuck in a public place with time to kill, we love to watch the people go by, making up stories about who they are, where they…

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Artsy on Escape Into Life:  Melissa Loop

It’s EIL Tuesday again!  Make sure you stop by Escape Into Life to check out my post today featuring Minneapolis artist, Melissa Loop.  Her Utopian compositions never cease to amaze me! Melissa Loop on Escape Into Life…

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Odyssey Through the Land of Color: Kerry Irvine

Over the weekend, following a walk in the brisk January air, I was consumed with a desire to paint.  Although I’d recently cranked out seven (!) paintings as Christmas gifts for my nieces, I really haven’t painted consistently since…

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Friday Faves: Paris Is Always A Good Idea

Perhaps it began with too many pre-teen viewings of Funny Face or Gigi.  Or maybe it was even earlier with The Aristocats.  For whatever reason, France in general and Paris in particular, have always been a source of fascination…

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Mixing Light Into the Grey: Arabella Proffer

None other a luminary than my husband’s man crush, Eddie Vedder said, “It’s an art to live with pain.. mix the light into the grey.” Although I don’t necessarily subscribe to the notion that all artists must suffer in…