Do not try to make a picture of something. Make something.
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Current Thoughts: Its hard to be an artist, but most everything in life is difficult. Getting a job washing dishes can be hard and doing that sort of work every day is difficult. Work has to be done. You need to work. You need to work hard and consistently. In many ways I am [...] The past year or so I’ve been fluttering the meaning of making art around in my head. I feel art needs a function, and I’ve found a comfortable satisfaction in the notion of art as communication. Makes sense. I mean, cave paintings in France were some of the earliest known works of art and [...] There is never enough time to be an artist. We know from movie adaptations of artist’s lives and literature that artists do their art work every hour of the day. Except when eating or being with artist friends, or going to exhibitions of their work, they are creating art work. Picasso and Van Gogh [...] I recently signed up for a local plein air competition hosted by MARN. This plein air competition is different than the tradition of painting outdoors. It’s about going “beyond the canvas” and includes multiple categories for submissions for instance: traditional, sculpture/assemblage, time based media, digital/photography, & printmaking. As a painter entering into the traditional [...] In some of my research I’ve been looking at old fairytales and myths, recently becoming interested in the Jack and the Beanstalk tale. I found an interesting article analyzing and comparing it, I thought it was a good read. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/marvels_and_tales/v015/15.1goldberg.pdf -Nick 
A delicious rush can be felt today; creeping through through my veins and tensing up my muscles as when I was a young kid opening Christmas gifts or beginning the first day of school. So much of my process not as an artist but as a person can feel so fallible and loosely [...] While working in a local municipal planning department in the 70’s, I witnessed first hand the ignorance and accompanying issues brought on by poor city planning. The down town area of this municipality fell victim to this phenomenon due in part to shuttering of a major employer in the area, coupled with a rush [...] This is another muggy day in Wisconsin after a torrent of rain yesterday, but then what can one expect? -Caroline Greenwald |
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