And, so another year....
I am one who treats each new year as a place for goal-setting. I’m pretty good at the goals through January and February, not-so-much afterwards, but I do believe in the concept of spring cleaning my brain.
As I look forward to another year in art (not so much in national and world news, I fear), things are on my mind.
Do any of you use and download the monthly wallpapers I’ve been providing? I do use them for my own use, but would forgo these monthly takes-a-few-hours ritual if I’m the only one using them. There are plenty of others out there from other artists that I can download. If I don’t hear from more than a couple of you, I will put them in my Not This Year column. A few of them from this and other years are below.
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Finally, I have plans to make some more things for the shop: new notecards, a zine fest, an expanded Seasons Greetings postcards, to name a few. Another reason to expand my readership. But hear me when I say, I most appreciate you, my blog readers, who have stuck with me over the years and are faithful readers. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
So, on to the business at hand. These have been inspiring me lately.
Look inside this book. You will love the artwork. Scroll down for page glimpses and a video of Rosalie working and more glimpses into the pages.
Carol Drinkwater, who writes a newsletter from Paris about books and soup and, well, Paris.
Down the rabbit hole :
My new issue of Uppercase led me to Carson Ellis (carsonellis.com) who led me to Phoebe Wahl . Find them. Unique and creative artists living in the Pacifioc Northwest, by the way.
Also in the same issue (aargh, the same page, even…I’ll never get through this issue) is Lesley Patterson Marx. Read about the set of tarot cards she created. Wonderful little collages. It has inspired me to work on (finish?) my own set of “playing cards” I started about ten years ago and, as is my habit, never finished. I will endeavor this year to add to the collection, Pray for me.
Visual beauty, story of past and renewed Notre Dame.
A beautiful story about 3 women who changed a neighborhood. i
For fellow library lovers. This Austin artist talks about her two-day tour of all the libraries and the love of libraries in general. Not a utopia—libraries must exist in the real world—but engines of optimism.
Oh, how far we have come. I think.