I say *mostly* online, as many of these delicious art sites have occasional offline volumes, events and activities that are definitely worth perusing. This article focuses on giving an overview of some of the web-based arts sites, magazines, blogs and journals (not run by super massive companies) that I frequent. I hope that new readers [...]
Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Aesthetica: ‘Creative Works’ competition 2010
I just received this press release for the Aesthetica ‘Creative Works’ competition 2010. Thought it was worth sharing as many of us are creative writers, artists, photographers and poets…
Aesthetica’s blog has a great interview with last year’s Fiction category winner Louise Beech, who manages to be simultaneously down to earth and inspirational.
The competition costs £10 [...]
30 Days of Drawing #29: Laura-ann Mc Donnell offers a writer’s response to drawing
Drawing is the artists most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality
(Edgar Degas)
Possessing wonderful drawing skills is not a common trait of the average writer, well not this writer at any rate. However it is a pastime that I like to indulge in from time [...]
30 Days of Drawing #21: Review: June Leaf ‘Record’ & Critical Communities ‘RITE’
Writing this review was a huge challenge for me in my particular position as an art history graduate student and aspiring artist. I enjoy the challenge of writing about visual and/or conceptual things, but have come to prefer the physical process of making my own drawings and tactile objects…
Dealing with the mountains of delicious desire, [...]
30 Days of Drawing #17: artist Anthony Boswell on his relationship with drawing
In front of you nothing and then, with only the requirement of an instant gesture, something. The ’something’ is of course the begining of a drawing. And what does drawing mean to me? I find it a question that I constantly adjust as new discoveries are made during the process of my practice. It has [...]
Latest Crack article: The Parlor Boutique
Oops… my camera battery needs charging. Saturday Sketchbook will follow once I can photograph this week’s drawings, so I thought you’d like to see a recent article on the fabulous Parlor Boutique until I get my images up & ready. I’m also super excited as I’ll be interviewing the Parlor’s director Lucy Adlington very soon…
