October 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed.[gap height=”20″] Vintage Signs from Los Angeles To create a reductive linoleum block print, you need to carve successive layers in a process made popular in the ’50s,…
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WTP Artist: Amy Cheng
“Each painting is the product of a slow meandering journey the painting and I take together…” By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Amy Cheng was born in Taiwan and raised in Brazil, Oklahoma, and Texas. She received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of…
Site Review: Nicole Small
Unifying Creativity: One-on-One Art By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Nicole Small’s site is much like a personal diary, or journal. Rather than cherry picking only her best work and presenting it in a formal exhibition format, she chooses to share her work in progress. The viewer is encouraged to follow her creative ideas, personal challenges,…
Art Spotlight: Yasemin Kackar-Demirel
The Parting Site See Yasemin Kackar-Demirel’s work in WTP Vol. V #8 mixed media on paper 26″ x 20″ One usually takes comfort in feeling grounded in this world. In my paintings and drawings, I reflect on the notion of groundedness in physical space with the intention of deconstructing it. I like to explore the…
Literary Spotlight: Nick Sweeney
From WTP Vol. V #8 Monstrous Men By Nick Sweeney A Gift from the Italians As a child, I lived in an apartment overlooking K Street, the imperial city centre of pageantry and postcards. When I started piano lessons with Mr Z, our music room contained only a piano and two stools. It was gradually…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
October 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief This roundup I’m dedicating to our October 31 deadline for our first annual literary and art WTP contests—it is fast approaching. We had extended the deadline, as I suppose we’re testing the waters as to when is optimal time (if there is one) to sponsor a contest. To recap,…
Book Review: Free Ferry
A Growing America in the Nuclear Age By Linda Simone Linda Simone’s poetry publications include Archeology (Flutter Press, 2014) and Cow Tippers (Shadow Poetry Press, 2006). Her poems, essays, and book reviews appear in numerous journals and anthologies. Born and raised in New York, she now lives in San Antonio, Texas, where the landscape and…
WTP Artist: Amy Genser
“I am fascinated by the imperfect perfection in nature.” By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Amy Genser plays with paper and paint to explore her obsession with texture, pattern, and color. Evocative of natural forms and organic processes, her work is simultaneously irregular and ordered. She uses paper as pigment and constructs her pieces by…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: Wolf Season New York: Bellevue Literary Press, October 10, 2017. 320 pp., $16.99, paperback ISBN: 9781942658306, e-book ISBN: 9781942658313. Author: Helen Benedict Helen Benedict is a prolific writer: seven novels, five non-fiction books, and a play—not to mention numerous essays and articles.…
Video: The Alchemy of Inspiration
What Inspires Me and How I Make it Into Art Video by Bronwen Hazlett ‘The Alchemy of Inspiration’ is a video I made to explain the process I go through to make images for my series ‘Midlife and The Alchemy of My Individuation.’ I begin by photographing the rural landscapes of Delaware that brought peace…
Art Spotlight: Constantine Gedal
Untitled See Constantine Gedal’s work in WTP Vol. V #8 giclee print 10″ x 10″ There are two elements that I employ in my imagery—human being and one’s surroundings. In order to construct image, I follow the travels of a lone soul in the lands of the other, registering views and moments flowing by, observing…
Literary Spotlight: John Skoyles
From WTP Vol. V #8 The Nut File By John Skoyles When I was in college, I worked for the Associated Press at 50 Rockefeller Center in New York City. I sorted mail, typed, and filed documents. One day, I found a fat manila folder labeled, “Nut File.” A reporter told me it was a…