Allison B. Cooke discusses her paintings [dropcap]M[/dropcap]y paintings celebrate the interplay of past and present, imagined and tangible, that which is lost and what remains. I have always been drawn to the physicality of aged surfaces that reveal the endless and shifting remnants of time. The patinas that build up where mankind and the atmosphere…
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Improving Style
Seven Steps for Developing Your Signature Artistic Style By Seth Apter [dropcap]W[/dropcap]e all know artists that have a signature style. When we see their work, we can immediately identify it as theirs and theirs alone. This is true for the great Masters, many well-known contemporary artists, and a host of people in our mixed media…
River Love—Ndaba Sibanda
Audio Poetry for your Listening Pleasure River Love Flow flow with fury With buckets and buckets Of love sweet love for my lover Fall fall for me fall for all time`s sake Rain on me fire none to put out Each time l slap my eyes on you slow I feel like pouring pouring my…
Yossi Waxman | Novel Excerpt
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye I Die a Little From a novel by Yossi Waxman Translated by Baruch Gefen Paintings by Yossi Waxman [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I was young, I believed there is life, real life, with awareness and understanding and love, and even hatred… I believed there is life in rocks and trees and flowers and…
Art Spotlight: David Morrison
Hyper-realistic colored pencil [dropcap]M[/dropcap]y drawings are hyper realistic: they capture minute details of the subjects that I portray, but they are only an illusion of the actual reality. I became obsessed with drawing branches and tree trunks by looking at them through magnifying glasses that allowed me to peer deeper into an astonishing world of…
Online Marketing
Four Artists Working the Web By Cory Huff founder of The Abundant Artist In 2009 I started The Abundant Artist website (TAA for short) as a way of teaching online marketing to my artist friends who were asking me for help. Since then, I’ve helped dozens of artists go from never having sold anything to…
Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
By Donald Kolberg After coming across this first link from the Google Cultural Institute, I thought I’d take a look at some interesting art this time. https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/art-camera The ultra definition in these works is incredible. Working with museums around the world, Google has used its Art Camera system to capture the finest details of artworks…
WTP Writer: Sophia Blackwell
“My audience is always smarter than me.” Interview by Jo Ely, Literary Editor Sophia Blackwell was born in Newcastle. She read English at Oxford, where she started performing poetry with Hammer & Tongue. Now an established performance poet, her poetry has been anthologized by Bloodaxe, Nine Arches, The Emma Press, Sidekick Books and The Woven…
Art Spotlight: Pam Erickson
Lintscape —assemblage & sculpture using non-traditional media, by Pam Erickson [dropcap]P[/dropcap]am Erickson’s assemblage and sculpture employ a wide range of non-traditional media. Some materials being quite personal: early family photos, hair from her cats and dogs, the shed skin of a pet iguana and bones from chickens fed to family and friends, etc, etc. Perhaps…
Interview with David Loret de Mola
Performance poetry and so much more Guerilla Poetry Month was initiated in 2014 —street performance poetry by a group of artists from Zero Forbidden Goals (ZFG). Can you tell us a little about ZFG and how Guerrilla became an offshoot? Well, ZFG started as a collection of hiphop artists who came together to perform in…
Listen to Kirstin Maguire
Audio Poetry: The Writing Life By Kirstin Maguire https://soundcloud.com/kirstinmaguire/the-writing-life [dropcap]K[/dropcap]irstin Maguire produces her poems in audio at SoundCloud as well as publishing them in numerous publications and collections, including Every Day Poems, The Guardian, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine and Cannon Poets. Her debut collection was a collaboration with Artist Jane Moore— the Sketch A Day…
Printmaking
How I Make a Monotype by Barbara van Buskirk See her work in WTP Vol. IV #3 Who can say wherein lies the charm of a monotype— that unique print from a painted plate, which stands in the half shadow between painting and printmaking? … Its spontaneity and freshness, its directness and freedom place it apart…