“No-Time, No-Space, No-Body” by Michelle Hold See her work in The Woven Tale Press Vol. IV #7 Video by Michelle Hold “My work is an exploration of the abstract, dance-like gestures, the vibrations of color and simple words. Light, movement, nature and new spirituality with scientific grounding are essential to my paintings and I am fascinated…
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WTP Artist: Donald Martiny
“Brushstrokes are human, personal, and intimate.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Donald Martiny currently lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was born in Schenectady, NY, in 1953 and studied at the School of the Visual Arts, The Art Students League in New York, New York University and the Pennsylvania Academy of…
Richard Gilbert: My Dog Tale Published
Relearning the Essay What our crazy canine teaches me (again) At last I’ve documented our family dog’s epic weirdness—and, well, mine. My essay “Why I Hate My Dog” explains on Longreads. Bottom line and fair warning to the rescue-minded: every adult pound dog I’ve known or heard about has suffered from scorching separation anxiety. Belle’s is…
PaletteArt™ | Lisa J Levasseur
Wheels of Change Recycled Acrylic I created PaletteArt™ because I couldn’t bear to throw away dried up old paint. It then became more of a scientific project. Basically I had to figure out how to get paint to do everything it isn’t designed to do. I can use any form of wasted paint, but it…
either | savannah brown | video poem
Poet and Content Creator my name is savannah brown and i’m a nineteen-year-old poet and content creator originally from ohio, but i’ve been studying in london for the past two years. i’ve been on youtube for more than five years, performing my original spoken word poetry and making videos dealing with topics like sexuality, gender, mental health,…
Two Painters in One | Rose Masterpol
Between a drawn line and a painterly stroke By Peter Frank [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n her work of the past three years, Rose Masterpol has been oscillating between a drawn line, animated by color as well as its own flagellating trail, and a more painterly stroke that provides given expanses with texture as well as hue. The drawn…
Art Spotlight: Allison B. Cooke
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…
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…