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All About Everything
Labels
- activism (2)
- assemblage (3)
- books (4)
- collage (36)
- concentricity (26)
- design (5)
- digital collage (3)
- drawing (10)
- flash animation (1)
- give-aways (1)
- gouache (14)
- inspiration (37)
- introduction (3)
- maps (21)
- marbelized paper (2)
- mixed media (8)
- money (5)
- music (1)
- oils (1)
- painting (19)
- pattern (8)
- photography (3)
- play painting (11)
- risk (14)
- sold (15)
- spirituality (7)
- the business of art (11)
- watercolor (3)
- writing (2)
Resources
- Art Calendar Magazine
- ArtBusiness
- Artcyclopedia
- ArtDeadline.com
- Artist Foundation Resources Page
- Artist Rising
- Artist's Magazine: Tip of the Week
- ArtMatters! Blog
- Arts Marketing
- Cheap Art Supplies
- Color Card
- Copyright for Collage Artists
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Thoughts on Writing
- Ellen Lupton's Links
- Etsy
- Fractured Atlas
- Freelancers Union
- GoodStorm
- How To Start as an Illustrator
- How to Write a Proposal
- How To Write an Artist Statement
- JPG Magazine
- Julie Mader-Meersman's Graphic Design Links
- June Walker
- Lulu.com
- My Year of Getting Published
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- Performancing
- Poets & Writers Magazine
- PrintPlace
- Public Art Network
- Schedule C - tax advice
- Tax Tips for Graphic Artists
- The Broad Art Foundation
- Writing an Artist's Statement
Inspiration
- 3191: A Year of Mornings
- 43 Things
- 52 Projects
- Barbara Kruger
- Bill Viola
- Bruce Robbins
- Christopher Wool
- d/visible Magazine
- Daughter of Luxury
- David Hockney
- Design Observer
- Design Sponge
- Diastema (Tara Gorman)
- Emma Powell: Rejectamenta
- Improv Everywhere
- Jenny Holzer's Truisms
- Keri Smith
- Kirsty Hall: The Diary Project
- Look, See
- My Year of Getting Published
- Paula Scher
- Rachel Whiteread
- Raw Vision
- Rhizome
- Sabrina Ward Harrison
- The Department
- Tiphanie Brooke: AntiGirl
- Two Artists Talking
- Visual Complexity
- Vitro Nasu
- We Make Money Not Art
Recommended Reading
Click on book images for more information from Amazon.com.
This book: Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist,
is chock full of inspirational and great nitty-gritty practical advice about approaching galleries and other venues, pricing your work, and everything else that goes into becoming a for-real professional artist.
If you feel creatively stuck, The Artist's Way will give you the tools to get unstuck.
A follow-up to The Artist's Way. I'm reading it right now, and I'm glad of it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
is the man. He writes so compassionately about how life seems complicated and difficult, while explaining, in very simple, very compelling language, that it is not. I love all of his books, but this is a favorite.
Edward Tufte is the hands-down guru of information design, of communicating simply and straightforwardly with images. And this book, Envisioning Information, is his bible. A beautiful, heavy, not-cheap tome, but much coveted by graphic designers everywhere.
The Elements of Typographic Style
is required reading for graphic design students, and highly recommended for anyone fascinated by typography, words, and visible language.
Great insight and inspiration for two-dimensional design. And also for life, if you think outside the box.
I have a very soft spot in my heart for this quirky, enthusiastic, brilliant M.I.T./R.I.S.D. artist. He treats a computer, and coding language, like a high-tech charcoal pencil, and weaves his message out of metaphor taken from early-life memories of his father's basement tofu-making business. What's not to like?
Sabrina Ward Harrison masterfully brings together collage, photography, paint, found objects, and thoughtful self-revelation. She puts her heart and soul on the page. I am inspired by her beautiful books, her humility, her vision, and fabulous success. This is the book that started it all.
You want an inspiring kick in the pants toward living with the discipline to take yourself seriously as a writer or artist? The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles will get you there.
Down-to-earth, hilarious, brilliant advice about being a writer in spite of inner demons, crushing self-doubt, and wild distraction.
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within is Natalie Goldberg's classic book on discovering your inner writer, and making room for that inner writer to find a voice, words, and something to say. Goldberg teaches us that the rules for good writing and good sex are the same: "Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think." Read this book.
If you're like me: a metaphor junkie, and an artist inspired by science and logic and philosophy, Douglas Hofstader's I Am a Strange Loop is a thought-provoking treat.
Makes a great gift for creative kids, or adults who are kids at heart, or adults who are trying to locate their inner kid.
This book: Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist,
is chock full of inspirational and great nitty-gritty practical advice about approaching galleries and other venues, pricing your work, and everything else that goes into becoming a for-real professional artist.
If you feel creatively stuck, The Artist's Way will give you the tools to get unstuck.
A follow-up to The Artist's Way. I'm reading it right now, and I'm glad of it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
is the man. He writes so compassionately about how life seems complicated and difficult, while explaining, in very simple, very compelling language, that it is not. I love all of his books, but this is a favorite.
Edward Tufte
is the hands-down guru of information design, of communicating simply and straightforwardly with images. And this book, Envisioning Information, is his bible. A beautiful, heavy, not-cheap tome, but much coveted by graphic designers everywhere.
The Elements of Typographic Style
is required reading for graphic design students, and highly recommended for anyone fascinated by typography, words, and visible language.
Great insight and inspiration for two-dimensional design. And also for life, if you think outside the box.
I have a very soft spot in my heart for this quirky, enthusiastic, brilliant M.I.T./R.I.S.D. artist. He treats a computer, and coding language, like a high-tech charcoal pencil, and weaves his message out of metaphor taken from early-life memories of his father's basement tofu-making business. What's not to like?
Sabrina Ward Harrison
masterfully brings together collage, photography, paint, found objects, and thoughtful self-revelation. She puts her heart and soul on the page. I am inspired by her beautiful books, her humility, her vision, and fabulous success. This is the book that started it all.
You want an inspiring kick in the pants toward living with the discipline to take yourself seriously as a writer or artist? The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
will get you there.
Down-to-earth, hilarious, brilliant advice about being a writer in spite of inner demons, crushing self-doubt, and wild distraction.
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
is Natalie Goldberg's classic book on discovering your inner writer, and making room for that inner writer to find a voice, words, and something to say. Goldberg teaches us that the rules for good writing and good sex are the same: "Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think." Read this book.
If you're like me: a metaphor junkie, and an artist inspired by science and logic and philosophy, Douglas Hofstader's I Am a Strange Loop
is a thought-provoking treat.
Makes a great gift for creative kids, or adults who are kids at heart, or adults who are trying to locate their inner kid.
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