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Life, Objectified: Kour Pour

Things are just things, it’s true.  Life is about our relationships and what we say and do, yet the objects that we live with become a part of who we are.  Artist Kour Pour methodically recreates intricately patterned carpets…

Daily Artsy Paintings Still Life

A Lovely Disarray: Carmelo Blandino

In love, as in life, things aren’t always neat and orderly.  Emotions go awry, we find ourselves sliding down the rabbit hole of sensitivity, going from sadness to anger to regret to tenderness and back again.  These large scale…

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Finding My Own Artsy: Feminine Wiles, Painting One

If you’re following along on Instagram, you might have noticed a little sneak peek into something I’ve been working on lately.  Since starting my #colorforaging2014 project at the beginning of the year, I’ve had more creative energy than ever.…

Daily Artsy Drawing Photography

A Letter to Molly: Graeme Mitchell

It seems such a shame that we hardly write letters anymore.  Especially love letters.  There was once a time when a couple’s main source of communication before marriage was the exchange of letters.  Putting thoughts and feelings into words,…

Daily Artsy Mixed Media

Amuse You: Mana Morimoto

Sometimes the art world, including myself and this blog, can take themselves just a wee bit too seriously.  We agonize over what we want to SAY with our work, it just has to mean something deep and intellectual and…

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Color Harvest: Pink Passion

I don’t wear much pink, I’ve never decorated with it much, but it seems to have some strange kind of power over me ( see blog logo & graphics! ).  I find the shade completely irresistible in artwork, and…

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Process Reveler: Justyn Hegreberg

For some artists, the end product is the goal, but for others, the process of creating, pushing the limits of medium and where that journey takes them is more the target.  In his work, Portland artist Justyn Hegreberg explores the…

Daily Artsy Figurative Photography

Innocence Forsaken: Isabelle Chapuis

Do you truly remember what it was like to be a completely innocent child?  Free from guile and not yet succumbed to the pressures of the adult world?  For so many, that innocence is  taken away at a younger…

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Dreamlike States: Kristen Schiele

Occasionally, Mr. F will wake up and unknowingly be mad at me for something I did in one of his dreams.  It’s only after being awake for a bit that he realizes that what he is remembering never actually…

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Wear the Artsy: Wendy McWilliams

A while back I wrote about the work of Wendy McWilliams and how to me, much of her work illustrates the glimpses of light and color that give us hope in the dark.  We are now well into winter and…