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Back to School
Two Students by Steven Boksenbaum on Zatista.com This time of year, whether you have kids in school, are in school yourself, or just live near one, it’s hard to avoid the back to school vibe. Suddenly,...
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The Art of Repetition
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows by John Constable 1829 on Tate.org In art, as in other disciplines, study is essential. But practice makes perfect. For painters, often this means painting the same...
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Artist’s Books
Pages From the Book of Time by Cheryl Frey on Zatista.com Many of you are familiar with books that contain art, and art that contains books, but what about books that are art? There was a time when the...
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For the Love of Cars
Old Times by Gabriella Mirollo on twotigerscreations.com Back in July, the annual road tour of the Model T Ford Club International passed through Rutland, VT and filled the downtown with over 200...
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Art of the Arch
Soft City: Archway by Marilyn Henrion on zatista.com Of all the iconic forms of art that seem to appear universally across cultures, geographical areas, and time periods, one of the most impressive is...
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Flag Waving
Old Glory by Kit Hevron Mahoney on zatista.com Unless you don’t have access to a television, newspapers, or any other information source, you may have noticed that we are in an election year. With the...
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Shades of Gray
Pots in Gray by Rossana Currie on zatista.com Halfway between black and white, gray is a color that doesn’t really seem like one, until you realize exactly how many shades there actually are, in terms...
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About Face
Face by Ly Tran Quynh Giang on zatista.com When it comes to the human visage, “taking things at face value” is more than just a turn of phrase. In fact, sometimes more so than their words or actions,...
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Art of Simplicity
Silence by Nicholas Bell on zatista.com For a long time the word has been out that modern life is growing increasingly busy and complicated. Now more than ever it seems we are assailed daily by...
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Art of the Dance
Ballet Slippers by Charlie Sands on Zatista.com Why is the art and drama of dance such a popular theme with artists? From iconic images by Matisse and Degas to the many famous films that have been made...
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Art That Goes in Circles
Circles in Clay by Daniel Ashe on Zatista.com As another year draws to an end, and certain familiar seasonal events and scenes seem to be coming (and going!) around again, I’ve been thinking about...
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The Art of Sharing
Stop by Lane Cook on Zatista.com In the wake of the recent school shooting tragedy at Newtown, CT, a grief counselor interviewed on television mentioned that one of the ways to help children cope with...
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Art So Wrong It’s Right
Venetian Mask by Anthony Dunphy on Zatista.com There seem to be all sorts of rules about color choices, from the by now fully disproven edict that redheads should never wear red, to the suggestions to...
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Kick Off the New Year with Art
Sweet With Simple Shades by N. Paluszak on zatista.com Now that that the holidays are over and the season of making good on resolutions has begun, here are a few ways to bring more art into your life...
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Art That Sells
The View I by Sharon Sieben on Zatista.com Not that I would ever follow such guidelines or suggest them to a fellow artist, but the other day, out of curiosity, I searched “Best Subjects for Selling...
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Snakes in Art
Stamp released to commemorate the year of the snake on Chinadaily.com To continue last month’s theme of it not being too late to start the new year off right, or for those of you who can’t get enough...
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The Art of Surviving February
Last Snow in February by Richard Szkutnik on Zatista.com Considering it is the shortest of the year, February can sometimes seem an interminable month, when memories of holiday festivities past seem as...
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Athletes in Art
Skaters by Cyril Power on lawson-gallery.com In a previous post about images of dancers in art, I considered the irony of painters and photographers who seek to render one art form that is all about...
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The Artist’s Palette
Palette No. 1 from Thatslikewhoa.com In more than one place on the internet I’ve recently seen images purportedly of famous artists’ actual working palettes. I am not certain of the original source or...
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Art and the Madness of the March Hare
European Hare on Wikipedia.org According to Wikipedia, the expression “mad as a March hare” “is an English idiomatic phrase derived from the observed antics, said to occur (some say incorrectly) only...
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