Interview of Donald Kolberg by Jung Katz STEEL MESH AND RIBBON SCULPTOR September 14, 2015 written by Casey Webb Tell us about yourself, who are you, where are you from, and what do you do? I’m a sculptor living in Central Florida, Palm Coast. I experiment with different mediums as I create organic concepts of Life…
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Thanks, Kurt Vonnegut: Why We Do Art
By Susan B. Apel Kurt Vonnegut’s words suddenly intruded into my half-formed thoughts about why I write. I have been creating and submitting some flash nonfiction to literary journals, reading the formulaic and occasionally flattering, or so I choose to think, rejection letters. Blogging, here. Blogging elsewhere, about death cafes and aging in place, local…
Correspondence Art
By Donald Kolberg There is a sorta secret society on the web that actually is accessed outside the web. It’s a place where originality and creativity work hand in hand with community and networking. The shows are constantly in Flux (an inside joke). And the artist tend to laugh a lot. And while many of…
Process-Shop: Experimental Drawing/Making
By Colin Dardis “Process-shop” was an experimental drawing / making workshop that took place in PS Squared gallery in January ’14, with artists Cilla Wagner and Sharon Kelly. The theme was to use words and materials as starting points to explore the notion that the “process is more important than the outcome”. Participants were encouraged to experiment with charcoal sketching: loose and…
Word Canvases
By Donald Kolberg Sometimes I just need to sit back and reflect. This seems to be when word canvases get created Line Each line a sacrifice to the ambiguous absence that is the surface, Abandoning each mark to the perceptions of doer and viewer. I’m left with the inability to retract any thoughts, Any conscious…
How to Inventory Your Artwork
By Press Arts Editor Donald Kolberg This past week I was with some friends at a local coffee shop, and we got on the subject of how much inventory artists have. This of course led to how do you keep track of the stuff. Not surprisingly, most artist don’t keep track of their art or…
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…
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…
Digital Art GIF Animations
By George Redhawk (Dark Angel 0ne) Click on images to view GIF animations
Asemic Writing as Art
Wordless writing, illegible writing, new forms of writing By Tom Venning Asemic writing has no semantic content. The letters are illegible, invented, or primal. The text has no verbal sense. Through its formatting and structure, it may suggest a type of document, or coded diagram, thereby, hint at meaning. Asemic writing can be understood through…
Art Soup
By Donald Kolberg A recipe for excuses that you can serve any time of year: Difficulty: Easy Prep Time: Your whole Life Serving Size: Every time you do art Ingredients One large project or a small series of projects (even one small project can be substituted) a squeeze of time a reduced desire to succeed…