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Masterworks Monday:  Edward Hopper

Happy Monday, Artsies!  Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.  This week’s Masterworks Monday artist is one of my all-time faves, American Realist painter Edward Hopper.   A feeling of melancholy tends to pervade most of Hopper’s work, but maybe that is…

Exhibitions Paintings Reviews

A Girl and Her Chickens: Yvonne Lozano

A little girl with brown pigtails makes a trip with her family to Colombia and there, befriends two chickens.  And so begins the story of “What Happened to the Chickens?”, the latest exhibition of Yvonne Lozano’s work at The…

Art News DoGooders

DoGooders: Helping Kids with Cancer Through Art

Hospitals can be scary places.  Especially if you’re a small child being poked and prodded and put into scary looking machines when all you want to do is play. Art proves a great distraction to kids at Shands Jacksonville…

Masterworks Paintings

Masterworks Monday: Georgia On My Mind

OK, I know it’s something of a cliche to be a woman who loves the work of Georgia O’Keeffe.   But I don’t care.  I have unabashedly loved her work for what seems like forever.  And I’m proud to say…

Art News

Should Artists Donate Their Art?

When I worked for a gallery we were constantly being asked to donate a piece of artwork for this charity and that.  Artists are no different, but donating artwork affects them in many ways that charitable organizations may not…

Art News

HERB & DOROTHY

What an amazing story!  If you love something, you will find a way to do it and the Vogels found a way to become art collectors on a very modest income.   I can’t wait to see this. HERB &…

Artsy Advice

15 Things an Artist Should Never Say

Good morning, artsies!  A little wisdom for all you artists out there and things we art supporters need to remember, as well. 15 Things an Artist Should Never Say – ArtBistro.com. Most artists I know aren’t guilty of these…

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Masterworks Monday:  Hedda Sterne, The Last Abstract Expressionist Dies at 100

I have a weakness for Abstract Expressionism.  I’m not sure what it is about the paintings of that time and the artists who created them, but there is just something about these works that move me.  Maybe it is…

Miscellaneously Artsy

WHIDBEY ISLAND FAS

Great little demo of a painting progressing from blocking in to highlighting, from the Whidbey Island Fine Art Studio. WHIDBEY ISLAND FAS.…