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July 2011

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Pink Powerhouse: Lily Stockman

As a color, pink has often been looked down on as “too girly”.  Tomboys scoff at wearing anything close to that shade.  “Serious” businesswomen wear suits of black, navy or grey, not pink.  Real men don’t wear pink.  As…

Daily Artsy Figurative Paintings

Under(the)cover(s) Artist: Clare Elsaesser

There are certain artists whose work is so striking that once you’ve seen it, it will be immediately recognizable when you happen upon it again.  Clare Elsaesser is just such an artist.  I first saw her work a few…

Artsy Advice Interiors

Art Inspired Design: Modern Reflections

I love art.  I love design.  Why not put the two together on the blog?  There was a time in my life when I thought my career path lay ( Thank you, Suzanne Decuir for the grammatical help ) in Interior Design. …

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Friday Faves:  Put A Bird On It

It seems that the hipster craft craze has given birds a bad name in the art world.  If you’ve seen the “Put a Bird On it” sketch from IFC’s hilarious Portlandia, you know what I’m talkin’ about.  Bird “art”…

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Visceral Sophistication:  Casey Matthews

Casey Matthews lives a double life.  Splitting her time between her home on Amelia Island, FL and a Chelsea apartment in New York City, in many ways, the Texas native is living an artist’s dream.  The best of both…

Daily Artsy Figurative Paintings

A Delicate Peace: Susan Hall

Coco Chanel once said, “I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the…

Daily Artsy Mixed Media

Cardboard Kaleidoscopes: Candace Fasano

Candace Fasano is a painter and a poet.  Where the paintings end and the poetry begins is not always distinctive.  According to Wikipedia, “poetry primarily is governed by idiosyncratic forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or…

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Happy Independence Day

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” –Nelson Mandela…

Bear Mountain by Rachel Ann Austin
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Friday Forager Faves:  Gone Campin’

Happy 4th of July weekend, Artsies!  As soon as the hubby gets off work today, we’re heading out for a little camping in the Port Townsend area ( For all my East Coast readers, that’s North of where we…