Another shooting. Artists, help me grieve. My job is to look. I want no subject to be taboo. If it is a face, I will look. If it is death, I will look. Looking is how I peacefully confront, learn, maintain engagement. This blog thread is how I share. The images below are fine art paintings of …
The Seattle Artist League is excited to announce the prizes for this year’s Portrait Awards. These artworks were chosen out of 151 entries, from 72 artists. Media was mostly paintings and drawings, with a few mixed media and prints. All were completed within 2021 or early 2022. “It was an honour and a delight to see such …
Thursdays are vocabulary days for our 30 Day Challenge, and our inspiration for today comes from A Word A Day, by Anu Garg Scrooch PRONUNCIATION: (skrooch) MEANING:verb intr.: To crouch or huddle.verb tr.: To squeeze. ETYMOLOGY:A dialect variant scrouge (to squeeze or crowd), perhaps influenced by crouch. Earliest documented use: 1844. USAGE:“We asked the model to scrooch down so …
The chicken paintings featured in this V-Note are by Endre Penovác. The chicken letter that follows was written in 1870, sent to the Poultry Society. The title proclaims it’s a manual about how to raise fine poultry. The content, however, renders itself informational for how to steal birds from your neighbor (or yourself, if you’re an idiot). It was signed by …
Butter
Today I’ll eat butter. Lots and lots of butter. And I’ll be thankful.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
-Ruthie
From the poetry foundation:
Butter
BY ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
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Minas Avetisian, Women Churning Butter (Khnotsi). 1964. Oil on canvas. 120 x 150 cm. Art Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan
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