Green Violet

There’s never been a great woman artist

“Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness. Women make up 50 per cent or more of classes at art school. Yet they fade away in their late 20s or 30s. Maybe it’s something to do with bearing children.”

Art & Fear:Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (book review)

Art is made by ordinary people. Creatures having only virtues can hardly be imagined making art. It’s difficult to picture the Virgin Mary painting landscapes. Or Batman throwing pots. The flawless creature wouldn’t need to make art.

Cursivebuildings’ odd stereoscopes

Just look.

Two-Thirds Primary by Rod Hunting and Tiffany Paige

Finding by seeing. Photographers.

Notebookism and Moleskine Art

Pages from essentially the same book. Casual art.

Box of Postcards

Vintage postcard collection online.

Smoke on the … Yangtze

Hendrix, translated. Video.

I wouldn’t mind having an open account at Chelsea Green, publishers, whom I follow on Twitter @chelseagreen … See this latest which highlights a book by Charles Dowding, “Salad Leaves for All Seasons”. The post includes a great YouTube video describing successful ways to get the most leaves from your garden. I rather failed at that this year, not taking time to do any seedlings. And I do envy him his greenhouse.

Here I learn of a “mouse repellent that really works”, the aptly named Mouse Magic. (Seems it is mega-minty and that’s something the little buggers cannot stand.)

I’ve always wanted a place to deal with my failed CD burns or (remember?) AOL mailings. This CD Recycling Center does accept CDs and DVDs and is trying to build up a full-country network.

And in closing, Opacity photographs “urban ruins”…something that’s always fascinated me for an unknown reason. I think I had some other sites in a previous blog… Hmm. Ah, well. All is fleeting and decays.

I strongly believe that when we are ready to learn, the teacher appears, whether they take the form of a fictional character or a real-life, personal contact. I think I was ready to learn something from Pai last week, that I wasn’t ready to accept when I first encountered her story.

From this article, from this writer.

Scanning this article on Steampunk (an aesthetic that appeals to me in odd ways) I come across this: Dharma in the Dirt which I must make time to read later.

The tape loop out of my mouth says, “I will catch up this weekend then I will not work on ‘puter any more on weekends and will instead paint.”

I got a hopeful thrill rethinking that as I look at some of the work in this SF group show (seen via Twitter @laughingsquid).

Appending…(as I go through twitterlinks)…Art from the business end of things.

I can’t remember, starts with “P”–didn’t like him as much, more modern, discordant. This is a whole conversation, or should I say, blog post, that I don’t have time for right now, but am reminded of as a former madrigal-mate sent me a link to this person’s discovery of chanting Hildegard. I liked Hildegard (though I know we didn’t even begin to get so esoteric as to pronounce the Latin with a Germanized accent). William Byrd’s five voice mass was a big favourite. And … well, more later. Work to do now.

An interesting compendium of information on copyright as it relates to collage pieces from the woman who created the intriguing Victoria Regina Tarot, for sale at Amazon (out of print; price is high).