The Pulse Tell All & New Portraits

First of all artist friends, if you haven't already, check out Seth Apter's great artist's community, yes community, blog he has created for artists to share their work, passions, ideas and opportunities to "meet" each other online. But before giving you the link to his page, let me say I have the pleasure and honor of being included in his upcoming Sunday March 10 blog post - The Pulse Tell All.

I answered a series of questions back in June 2011. This Sunday's post will be responses to the question

“what is the one thing that you know now that you would have liked to have known when you first started to create art?” Will be interesting to see my response (as I don't remember what I said!) along with other artists' responses. And while you're there, there are MANY great art posts to check out!

So now here is the link now to Seth's Blog The Altered Page where you will find The Pulse Tell All and much more! Visit now and be sure to go back on Sunday and often!

And now for the portrait part of this Blog post! These are portraits of my artist friend Jan Searle and her dogs Kika and Suki at Moon Canyon, Bisbee made last Saturday. Quite a hike too! For me anyway. It was a breeze for Jan and "the girls". Tells me I need to do more walking/hiking...

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Time to Reflect

This past month has been so busy and scattered. I've missed checking out Blogs, email, and FB on a regular basis. I sort of fell out of touch. I'm thinking it's time to find a way to slow down, reflect, be quiet, be still, and also enjoy my blog friends all over again.

I realized I got an email from Seth Apter - The Altered Page about his Sunday post that I was included in. So, I'm a few days late, but please visit The Pulse on The Altered Page. Seth is a great artist, person, and promoter of artists through his Blog (among other things). Many thanks, Seth!

The Post: Master Class. Chapter 1: Women in the Arts", artists responses to  'If you could take a class from one artist from anytime in history, including the present, who would it be and why?'  part of The Pulse series - check it out  here

 Here's wishing you all a great upcoming art week!

Technique and Tool

The Altered Page

I am hurriedly posting this as I am meeting with our Sunday Drawing Group in 2 hours to put together our Subway Gallery show to open on Nov. 12th. But in the meantime, I did want to thank Seth Apter for including me in The Altered Page post, Technique and Tool. Check out his blog! He has alot of great posts and shares the work, thoughts, ideas of alot of great artists. Thank you, Seth! Oh, BTW, my favorite tool when I responded to Seth, was my camera. I LOVE my camera. It is the framework for most of my art. I also love Photoshop, our great Epson archival printer, and my encaustic/mixed media studio. It's the combo of ALL these tools that lets me make the art I make!

The Pulse of Mixed Media

The Pulse of Mixed Media by By Seth Apter is being released by North Light Books,  March 2012, although it will be available for pre-sale on Amazon before that. I am happy to be included in this book with many great artists!
Check out Seth's Blog The Altered Page to get updates on this and see lots of great art posts featuring Seth's work and many other artists he regularly features.
Happy Art Day!!!

Cover, The Pulse of Mixed Media by Seth Apter.