Redbud Garden Club is 60 years old…
Just finished making the little “yearbook” for our local garden club. Here is the cover…it’s 5.5 inches by 4.25 inches. The yearbook lists members, meeting dates and programs, resources. [There … Continue reading
Sunday Art Musings
Renoir story on CBS Sunday Morning….said he painted over 4000 paintings in his life, and 700 paintings were in his studio when he died, at age 78, on December 3, … Continue reading
Designing for Generosity
How do you spend your generosity quotient? Do you create just for a monetary return? Creation is not just something like making an artwork, it is everything you do–in your … Continue reading
Doing not much….
Studio time versus just every day living time. My studio is upstairs, I pass by it every time I come in my front door. I don’t go there every day. … Continue reading
“Art is Human”
Quotes from Linchpin by Seth Godin “Most artists can’t draw…but all artists can see.” “Art is about intent and communication, not substances.” “An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, … Continue reading
Making Handmade Paper
Learn to make handmade paper at my art studio on April 17. Details here. Sponsored by the Arts Alliance of Three Rivers. Made some paper today, using junk mail and … Continue reading
Musings on the last day of STUDIO TOUR 9
The conversations with visitors (and other artists) about life and art ARE the Studio Tour. Like giving encouragement to a woman to just jump in and make mandalas (after she … Continue reading
In the Studio…
Just now as I was adding new lighting to the studio for the Studio Tour next weekend, a peace came over me. Making a space for creation is the essence … Continue reading
It’s Happening…
The last push, getting ready for the Studio Tour next week. It always seems that the art shows up in concrete form at the last minute, after being in my … Continue reading
More ABC’s
found objects from artist, Gordon Smith via Bauldoff (Makes me wonder what a Chinese found object alphabet would look like.)
Mandorla Making
After twenty plus years of making contemplative mandalas, I am drawn to the intersection of circles and the overlapping form called the mandorla. Title: Alignment (at the center of the … Continue reading
Three wishes…
[Looking for a genie in a bottle.] 1. I wish I had made this art work. 2. I wish I could make work like this in my own words. … Continue reading
The story behind the art…
Saw a wonderful Indie movie on PBS last night called “Between the Folds” about the art of paper-folding (origami.) One artist, Chris Palmer, talked about how we only see about … Continue reading
Still here…
It’s cold, but not too cold. There’s snow up in the high mountains. This place, this home. birdbath waiting for the sun to thaw
Tree Bark
© Elsah Cort This is a new collage from photos taken in Crescent Meadow last week, visiting the monarch Sequoia tree that burned on my birthday in August, which now … Continue reading
More ABC’s
from Google Earth taken over the Netherlands via boingboing
Poetry: the land speaks and a cowboy listens
John Dofflemyer, another “stream” from the Kaweah Land and Arts Festival, steward, rancher, poet living on Dry Creek in the Kaweah River Watershed: This poem was posted September 21, 2009 … Continue reading
More from the land and arts festival…
Paul Buxman: painter and farmer from Dinuba At the Kaweah Land and Arts Festival, Paul talked gently and reverently about his work and life. He told us to live our … Continue reading
The palmistry of mountains…
There comes a time… when you see something that pretty much sums up everything, when you are gifted a glimpse, ever so feebly, of your life from so broad a … Continue reading
Out on a limb…
Addendum image for previous post called Dreaming up art…always in the long now cover of The New Yorker, October 5, 2009 called “On the Edge” by Gürbüz Dogan
Kinetic Photography: something new to try?
Here is where I first came across the notion of kinetic photography, also known as camera tossing. This is very intriguing to me. Not sure if I have the guts … Continue reading
Living walls…green art
Getting ready for the Three Rivers Environmental Weekend this Saturday and Sunday with the Green Home Tour, where I will be hosting a booth for the California Native Plant Society…..and … Continue reading
Dreaming up art…always in the Long Now
Just some notions to share from a 9 year old essay by Brian Eno, one of the founders on the Long Now Foundation. Humans are capable of a unique trick: … Continue reading
Saturday afternoon grazing…
Visiting some of my favorite blogs….resting and keeping cool……waiting for summer to be truly over……and for rain to soak the earth again….(talked with bed and breakfast guests from New York … Continue reading
Simplifying web presence for artists…from typewriter to workshop
I remember saying many years ago (back when I was an art gallery owner) that I would never get one of those newfangled crazy computers! I said I would not … Continue reading
Universe is the canvas
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope snapped this panoramic view of a colorful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of a giant star cluster. The image reveals a small … Continue reading
Human innovation is the camera…
Rumi: These rocks and earth-forms were originally sun-warmed water. Were they not? Then the planet cooled and settled to what we are now. “Hideaway” digital art by Inga Nielson [all … Continue reading
YES,
I know it is time for me to show some of my own work (on this blog.) [I can’t draw, so I cut out things from magazines and such, then … Continue reading
Mandala as Living Organism
A microscopic photograph of a marine diatom alga Actinoptychus heliopelta made by Dr. Stephen Nagy of Helena, Montana “Diatoms are microscopic, unicellular organisms that occur abundantly in marine and freshwater … Continue reading
Art I Wish I Could Live With…
This art amazes me. The artist is Paul Jenkins, 86 years old, who started studying art at the Art Student’s League in New York City the year before I was … Continue reading
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