If you are a painter, you no doubt know the joy of gazing upon piles of paint freshly squeezed from their tubes. Perhaps you’ve admired the loveliness to be found on your palette after a day of painting, when…
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Happy Friday, Artsies! Please forgive my 1980s one-hit-wonder reference. I can’t help it. My mind just automatically defaults to songs from my teen years. It seems like the written word is experiencing an artsy renaissance of late. Not since…
For many artists, the act of creation isn’t just about projecting an image onto a canvas. Artists like Jen Garrido understand that often, it’s more about pulling a hidden entity out of the mist. Garrido’s images straddle the line…
Coming from the South, I had this image in my mind of the Northwest– open minded and full of diversity. And it is like that, in major cities like Seattle and Portland. But in the small towns we’ve lived…
I’m going to kind of tell my age with this post.. I’m a child of the 80s. There, my secret is out. I remember all too well the punk movement– the mixing of Victorian-inspired lace with torn fishnets and…
I’ve never been one of those horse-crazy girls. You know the ones. Oh, I read my share of Black Beauty and The Black Stallion when I was young, but I just never caught the equestrian obsession. But we have…
These last four months of living on a lake in Northern Idaho has had its advantages, wildlife spotting being chief among them. A favorite post-dinner activity of Mr. Forager & I is to take a long walk in the…
Few places in the US hold our fascination like New Orleans does. It’s heady dose of hard partying, spirituality and historic charm completely enchants us. Chicago artist Grant Schexnider ‘s work addresses the iconography of New Orleans and the bayou…
Lush color and luminosity? What could be better! Head over to Escape Into Life to check out this week’s Artist Watch on New York artist Kristine Moran. Kristine Moran on Escape Into Life…
The advent of photography has really shaped us into an incredibly visual society. While having a portrait painted was a luxury usually afforded to the most privileged, photographs were soon accessible to people of all classes and incomes. Photography…