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National Novel Writing Month is November, and I signed up to pledge my 50,000 words, like thousands of others. Is that why I haven’t been posting here? Well, no. Turns out I’m just as bad at regular fiction writing as I am at regular blogging. But here, just to get the ball rolling again, is…
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About a place I picked up a flyer the other day. It’s for 40W, a nascent non profit group trying to form an Arts District in Northeast Lakewood. Lake wood , about 20 blocks from my house, is a somewhat nondescript suburb that is actually Colorado’s 4th or 5th largest city.
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Class Act
Stefan from the Tuesday morning Monotype class has been working with fields of color. This is one of his first abstracts from the workshop, and I like it because it has a very balanced color scheme ( the photo exposure may suggest a brown for the darkest swath; it’s actually a rich, wine-y red), simple…
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Art Star
Took a break from my own projects to go watch a favorite Denver artist do a demo at the Art Students League of Denver. Homare Ikeda has done a lot of monotypes, which is why I often bump into him at Open Press. He’s also on the faculty at ASLD. Here he was doing a…
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Update: I love this time of year, as the days brighten a bit. It’s also a good time for a fresh start in the studio, and I plan on some sketchbook time with new ideas later. I’ll post some of these, as well as work from the end of 2010. But first, I’ll wrap up…
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Cold ‘fusion
Winter finally did arrive here, 6-7 inches worth, along with the frigid local tradition known as “Stock Show Weather”, named after the National Western Stock Show. I don’t mind. We need the moisture; it’d been mostly 50’s with sun all through December- and I have a long list of computer projects to catch up on.…
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Blu Xmas
Blu Xmas, Acrylic, 12×12″ My friend Dea down at Plastic Chapel on Colfax invited me to enter her Square Footage show. Plastic Chapel mostly sells cutting edge toys and collectibles, such as Smorkin’ Labbits, and Neo-Realism in her small gallery. So I decided something fun was in order. Here’s what I came up with, a…
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I’m shocked- SHOCKED! to learn that I was off pursuing important projects in education , art marketing, and social networking, no one has bothered to update this blog. Eyes will roll! I thought I’d made a pretty savvy hire for a support staff, millions of monkeys armed with millions of cast-off Remington Selectrics, working for…
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I’ve learned one thing at my temporary job: not all workplaces are the same. The University of Denver Bookstore has none of the negativity and management bullying that is practically unwritten policy at Safeway. Thus the customers get experienced help and a genuine human interaction when they walk in, as opposed to Safeway, where they…
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another long break between posts. It does appear that launching oneself in the creative economy, and blogging about launching oneself in the creative economy, are two very different, and possibly mutually exclusive things. Like the year I spent 47 days walking a picket line, telling myself to keep a diary so I could write about…
