By Eduardo Suastegui of http://www.eduardosuastegui.com What is this story about? To write it, you have to know the answer to that question. It’s a simple question—deceptively so. But yeah, if you’re going to have any idea of what to write next, and if you’re going to write a semi-coherent story summary blurb, you have to know what…
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Curating Your Images for Collage
By Kelly Kilmer In my Fremont classes, we were talking about collage and selecting materials to use in our work. Many people have it in their head that they need to spend hours sorting through every piece of collage material in their possession to find the right image, or maybe they’re overwhelmed with supplies. I hope…
Invocations, America
By Charlotte Thompson, of William Blackford’s black and white photography
By Seth Apter, Press Arts Editor Join Seth every Sunday when he shares some of his favorite links he’d discovered in the previous week. All previous links can be found here. And here is Week 55… 15 creative exercises for color exploration and play from Traci Bautista. Check out this tiny art studio built by Derek Diedricksen at the Empty Spaces Project gallery in…
3D Digital Art
By Tom Repasky I first began using computers to create art in the 1970s. As much as I’ve always loved painting, I was never able to fully realize my inner visions using paint and a brush. Initially my computer art was limited to 2D. I discovered 3D when Caligari Corporation, released trueSpace 1.0, a 3D…
Glass Painting
By Wren Panzella Look for her work in upcoming August issue of The Woven Tale Press Glass transfer painting is a practice dating back to the Middle Ages, in which paint is applied directly to glass and viewed from the unpainted side. Since a painting on glass is particularly fragile, I use a technique invented…
Chin Up, Chapbook!
By Eliot Gilbert Chapbooks seem to be the neglected middle child of the poetry world: younger sibling to the collection, and older sibling to the individual piece. As for fiction, it is obscure to the point of nearly nonexistent. This makes me sad because I view them as a wonderfully untapped medium to sample your work.…
Writers' Advice, Tips, and Theories
Here is a list of essays, articles, quotes, and links on writing advice, tips, theory, and thought. (From 23 Tips from Famous Writers) “Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a…
Digital Art GIF Animations
By George Redhawk (Dark Angel 0ne) Click on images to view GIF animations
"Tiny House" Art Studio Cabin on Display in CT Gallery
By relaxshacksDOTcom, with Paul Toussaint of http://www.paultoussaint.com featured in June’s issue of The Woven Tale Press
The Hybrid Author
By Bokerah I recently attended an online workshop by Jeff Goins. He offered two free workshops related to Art of Work. One was a general workshop, the other – the one I attended – was for want-to-be-so-bad-it-hurts writers. During the session, he received lots of great questions. Many of them were related to the query “Which path is…