Writer, editor, traveler
by Faith
The amazing Austin Kleon pointed me to Quotenik, which is an amazing site for quotes from creative people. I LOVE this entry, from a poet I have long admired: Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. …
by Faith
The travel sketchbook, or carnet de voyage, is HUGE in France. There are festivals devoted to them in lots of places. Artists come from all over Europe to show off their work. I’ve now been to two, and am booked for a third. It’s so inspiring to wander around, seeing hundreds of different kinds of …
by Faith
Via the marvelous Austin Kleon: You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place …
by Faith
The last couple of weeks have been a long, hard slog. Work took me to Berlin and to Paris, both, of course, glorious locations, though I mainly saw the interiors of our meetings and hotel rooms. Arrived home Wednesday, limp from fatigue. Soon the workplace was consumed by a self-inflicted wound, which, at this writing, …
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I am reading a superb book, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. I’ve only gotten through about 20 pages, and am already astonished by what makes people tick–by which I mean coffee, sugar, alcohol, amphetamines, and sleeping pills! Highly recommended so far, for all sorts of reasons!
Pictures I have been meaning to upload: Below is an “art” exhibit Roger and I saw at the Tate Modern in London earlier this year. Wondering where the art is? That crack in the floor, folks. For real. Below that, there are some experimental “houses” or some such thing. Roger can comment.
by Faith
Two days into a new month. So far it’s a sight better than January. Check out the new photo album. I’ve been baking, and today I took a really fun class from friend Loretta Marvel, over at Pomegranates and Paper. We made some very cool Victorian nosegays, out of ribbons and papers and stamps. Great …
Here is the fabulous studio where Dana and I took a class from Margaret Martin last weekend in Buffalo. So many things to paint and to look at! It was supposed to be a flower-painting class, but for some crazy reason, I didn’t quite snap to that, and so I painted bottles in the windows, …
by Faith
Roger and I went to see an exhibit of Tim Hawkinson’s work (among a half dozen or so other events!) at the Whitney this weekend. I went around saying the guy was mad as a hatter, a genius, one of the most creative, and VERY ODD, artists I’ve seen in a while. I can’t begin …
