https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WqU2tcfwIY Ideas are like mice in your house: you know they are there, you don’t know when you’re going...

Image credit: Artpedagogy.com I discovered the Artpedagogy website during one of my immersive digital wanderings. I’ve only begun to dig...

Collage   Steampunk Chicken: Opening the Mind with Surrealist Art Don’t Regret the Spill… New York State of Mind Slow Morning Visual:...

“Open Doodles is a set of free illustrations that embraces the idea of Open Design,” writes artist Pablo Stanley at opendoodles.com. “You...

Use the paint. In the United States we are often obsessed with perfectionism. And catastrophize our failures. Luckily, failure does not...

“When people say they can’t draw, I think it’s more to do with beliefs rather than talent and ability. When you say you can’t draw,...

Why I like them (simple, easy, accessible). Where I get them (library). I’ve had so much pleasure playing with the techniques in the...

My interests in fashion, collage, paper dolls and play prompted me by happenstance to create these “Gina dolls.” I’m loving these. That’s...

I awoke in slomo one morning with the phrase “periwinkle aardvark in a mustard suit” on my lips. I don’t know why. I don’t care. In my...

Some call the journey I’m on “decluttering” or “downsizing.” I call it “reducing the content footprint of my home studio.” Everything in...

In 2007 I took a poetry writing course at the Omega Institute for Holistic Health in Rhinebeck, New York. My key takeaway from that...

https://www.autodraw.com/ Just go with it.

So, turns out that American man of letters Mark Twain did not famously say, “if the first thing you do in the morning is eat a live frog,...

Junk mail collage art: Gina Greenlee Creating junk mail art is a great visual art practice if you don’t already have one. It’s the...

No Alarms, Doodling and You at Age 3 Ever notice how kids play? When they make up stories they roll from one idea to the next. Mikey...

Very old ones donated to the library. I read ‘em then play with the images.

Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative game that traces its roots to the 1920s Parisian Surrealist Movement. Usually played by several...

“[The residual purpose of art is] purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmaton of life – not an attempt to bring order out of...