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• new group - sydney's guide to exhibition's- please join!
  by bodymechanic

  hey to all of my sydney bubblers please join the new sydney exhibition group u’ll find it in my groups or just read the title of this jo…

  hey to all of my sydney bubblers please join the new sydney exhibition group u’ll find it in my groups or just read the title of this journal, it is also for the people in the blue mountains ,newcastle,wollongong and the central coast, it will inform you about what is going on art wise in all types of artistic media get you word out about what’s happening with you or someone you know. / wouldn’t it be great to have a tonne of bubblers just rock up at your show- it happens and it is a fantastic feeling. / as one person doing a show it is hard when you can’t get your word out to other artists but as a group the word can just spread with unlimited possibilities. / steve

• My Book of Fractals
  by Dave Moilanen

  I finally took some of my fractal work and put them into a picture book. The book contains work that is old, new and some that has never…

  I finally took some of my fractal work and put them into a picture book. The book contains work that is old, new and some that has never been published. If anyone has an interest in taking a look, you can take a peek here: Fractal Me Baby – Scenes From The Fractaled Mind

• The Question of Intentionality, an Investigation
  by Carson Collins

  *The whole notion of intent is one that fascinates me almost to the point of obsession; when looking at or making artwork I always wonder…

  The whole notion of intent is one that fascinates me almost to the point of obsession; when looking at or making artwork I always wonder, what is the artist’s intent for this thing that they are making?; what effect, exactly, is it supposed by the artist to have on others?... what effect does making it have on the artist?... and so on. This question of intentionality is strangely absent from most of what is considered critical thinking about Art. Probably the various art objects could even be meaningfully classified according to the various intentions and effects, but somehow this is never done. It can be quite enlightening to try and arrive at a more specific sort of clarity about what our intentions for, and suppositions about, the specific things that we create actually are. Not in the sense of why do artists make Art and what is the purpose of Art?, but rather what are my intentions for this specific thing that I have made, and what effect do I suppose that it will have on others? My personal opinion is that ambiguity is an essential quality of all really great Art. I’m not taking the position that one should read words like “intent”, “understanding”, and “meaning” as if any piece of visual Art shouldn’t be just Art for Art’s sake, as opposed to Art with a message. Speaking only for myself, and the intentionality vs. ambiguity question, my thesis is not contra ars gratia artis; rather, I’m saying that, on close examination, artists actually do have purposes and goals for these things that they make (whether they’re capable of articulating and/or admitting them or not), and these things that they make are worthy of being examined in terms of the artist’s own intentions. “An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates Here’s to plain speaking and clear understanding: intent Law: the state of a person’s mind that directs his or her actions toward a specific object. Adjective: 1.firmly or steadfastly fixed or directed. 2.having the attention sharply focused or fixed on something. 3.determined or resolved; having the mind or will fixed on some goal. 4.earnest; intense. - The American Heritage Dictionary (A propos: P.D. Ouspensky, and others, would argue that most of us only imagine that we have intent.) It strikes me that Art making may be the only organized human activity in which a lack of purposes or goals is considered by anyone to be a virtue. Why is this important? Well, for example, try to imagine a major business, charitable, or government organization with no stated purpose or “core values”. No such thing exists. There’s a reason for that: an organization so completely rudderless wouldn’t survive for 15 minutes in the real world. Recently I have initiated some discussions on the topic of “The Question of Intentionality”in a few artists’ forums on the Internet. The Surrealists, as a group, are the ones that get the most upset at the very notion that artists (like everyone else) exhibit goal-directed behavior. Here are some typical responses: “Sorry, don’t have time to think, I just paint because I like it. Don’t want to know the reasons, I prefer mystery, as an open space for imagination.” ”...a drawing with the intention of creating images without having any intentions about what those images will be… the intention to create something unintentionally…” Certainly one can do this, Surrealists, in particular, often do. Nothing wrong with that. However this only brings up other questions of intentionality, as if one were peeling an onion. First, one might ask, what was the artist’s motive (intent) for wanting to “create something unintentionally” in the first place? What result, exactly, did the artist hope to achieve via this method? ”...to connect with deeper psychological and emotional levels.” And then, what is the purpose of that? Self-knowledge? If so, then why show it to anyone else? Because if one makes something with the intent to show it to other people, it seems that there is implied an intent on the part of the artist to produce some effect on the viewer. Artists working within the Abstract paradigm tended to have a different set of objections to the notion of art being intentional. Here’s a particularly articulate example: ”...a reason for someone to dabble in the the arts has been called an addiction and the reason they do it (some artists) is to seek a particular state of being (mind) while in this process of mark making. This is the primary motive or intention of some artists and by using this method it may have been achieved, or not. The actual image, or images, created evolved as an accident. There was no intent to draw, let’s say, eyeballs but when the artist steps back and takes a look all she sees are eyeballs staring back at her. The artist can’t decide whether to show anyone her art… Eventually… she decides to show it to her mom. No matter what the artist does… her mom always says after looking at the daughter’s marks, “That’s nice dear, but why so many nipples.” ...Curiously the observer of the art sees images that are different than what the artist sees. There was no intention to create eyes nor was there any intention to create nipples. After a while the artist gets up enough nerve and shows her work to many people. Each individual sees something different in this abstract piece of art. It appears that each viewer interprets the drawing differently. Perhaps that is another of the artist’s intent, a secondary intent to create mystery and the result was that she succeeded. Bottom line, there was no intention to create eyes, nipples or toes or whatever one might see. The intent was to create ambiguity. Each viewer was allowed to interpret the marks without being told what they should see. The drawing becomes a sort of mirror and reflects back more about the viewer than the artist. Abstract art is curious in this way and perhaps why it leaves many people baffled as to the artist’s intent. They want to see the artist’s intentions, they want to know what it means. Are they being put-on? They may feel that way but few artists apply their art just to make fools of people, maybe.” That’s a chain of events that I find plausible, although I find it disturbing. Not the part about the artist’s intention to “seek a particular state of being (mind) while in this process of mark making.” – that’s something that I’m intimately aware of, and it’s certainly one of a multiplicity of intentions that I ascribe to myself. What disturbs me about this hypothetical anecdote is that it seems to imply that important Art can somehow be made by accident, or, even more disturbingly, that the critic’s rationalization after the fact is somehow more important than the artist’s original act. This was precisely the initial point of contention, reflecting back to a seminal conversation that I had with David Cohen in the September, 2003 issue of Art Critical . Assigning meaning or value to such an object beyond the intentions of its maker seems to me a rather questionable idea. ”...”If a herd of pigs knocked over a table of paints and smeared a canvas, and you liked it, then you’d have to call it art…” We do often find beauty or significance in the chance arrangement of things, whether done by an artist or an accident; an historical accident, in the case of some museum pieces. And, as Carl Jung pointed out with his concept of Synchronicity, this is far from trivial – it tells us something important about ourselves (and nothing in particular about the object). ”...do you think people need to know what your intentions are to understand your paintings? Do you not think something is lost by explaining it? If they don’t get it without it being explained to them, have you failed?” I don’t think there’s anything to “understand”; I’m more interested in having the viewer experience a certain state of mind, of emotion, a profound and lucid calm. If they don’t experience that state when looking at my paintings , I don’t think there’s anything to be gained by “explaining” my intentions; insofar as that particular viewer is concerned, my work has failed utterly. To quote David Cohen, ”...I wouldn’t want to participate in a criticism the function of which would be to award brownie points for good intentions.” One’s paintings might work for some people and not for most people, regardless of any intentions. The fact that some viewers understand and appreciate and others do not has absolutely nothing to do with the question of intentionality. Intentionality is about one’s own purposes and goals, not about the reactions of others. An artist of a mystical/Symbolist bent had this to say: ”...consciousness reflects reality, thus if you alter consciousness, you alter reality… Intent is simply a concentrated, intense energy that we apply—to whatever. As bodies of energy ourselves, we certainly can manifest many things. It is the same with prayer, per se, or meditation. It’s all energy.” And a very pragmatic artist shared this point of view: ”...Intent has to do more with Preparation. Even Improvisation requires some sort of preparation. Spontaneity requires also preparation. The very ability to approach a blank page, a blank canvas or a computer screen is contingent on our inner preparations… contingent on the alignment of our heart, mind, and hands… in the direction of the task.” In conclusion, here is an interesting area of thought: i.e., the historical relationship between Art and ceremonial magick. Arguably this may have been the original (prehistorical) reason for the invention of representational Art. Perhaps Art is something that exists in a realm beyond intentionality, more akin to instinct. It seems to me that the impulse to make Art is both necessary and inevitable, an inextricable part of human nature. I refer again to P. D. Ouspensky: “Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine which, in the right circumstances, and with the right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and, having fully realized this, he may find ways to cease to be a machine. First of all, what man must know is that he is not one; he is many. He has not one permanent and unchangeable “I” or Ego. He is always different. One moment he is one, another moment he is another, the third moment he is a third, and so on, almost without an end… In reality there is no oneness in man and there is no controlling center, no permanent “I” or Ego. Every thought, every feeling, every sensation, every desire, every like and dislike is an “I”. These “I’s” are not connected and are not co-ordinated in any way. Each of them depends on the change in external circumstances…” (from “The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution”, Chapter 1) Finally, it occurrs to me that Intent plays no role in “evolution” as defined by Charles Darwin; evolution is the result of environmental factors acting on random mutations. In other words, blind chance. Does Art “evolve” in an analogous manner? Or is it, more properly, the intentional product of work done by sentient beings? Heartfelt thanks to all of the thoughtful artists who have taken the time to participate in my ongoing investigation of the Question of Intentionality, and to David Cohen, art critic for the New York Sun, who started me down this path back in 2003. I sincerely hope that readers of this essay will contribute their thoughts to my investigation.

• Gift ideas ........... Abstract wall art for home and office.
  by Anne Staub

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• My Life Is Filled With Gifts........Thank You To Everyone
  by Sophie Shapiro

  *I would like to thank all the groups and hosts who have featured my healing paintings this week. I thank everyone on Red Bubble who supp…

  I would like to thank all the groups and hosts who have featured my healing paintings this week. I thank everyone on Red Bubble who supports and inspires my work. / I would also like to thank – Pryere – for compiling my work and putting it to – Music – A gift I shall always treasure. Kind regards to everyone, Sophie 4th December 2008 – Than You For Featuring – A Walk With Van Gogh / / Live, Love, Dream – With Special Thanks To bamagirl38 – Dennis Penny -TRussotto – Julie Thomas – MDomaille 4th December 2008 – Than You For Featuring Epitomators / / Unconventional Artistry / With Special Thanks To Psyche and Cheywings 3rd December 2008* – Thank You For Featuring Poseidon / / Underwater & Sealife – With Special Thanks To Lisa Weber and Matt Tworkowski 16th October 2008 – Thank You For Featuring Nut / / All Things Ancient Egyptian – With Special Thanks To DawnDavies -Dawnsky 2 / Nut October 2008 – Thank You For Featuring Swedenborg’s Angels / Swedenborg’s Angles The Healing Journey – With Special Thanks To Julie Marks 27th September 2008 – Thank You For Featuring Ka / Music Inspired Art – With Special Thanks To TKrosever, Blamo and Paul Stephen Dixon All Things Ancient Egyptian – With Special Thanks To DawnDavies -Dawnsky 2 Ka ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART AND WRITING – With Special Thanks To TeriLee And Linaji The Life That I Have Abstract Art – With Special Thanks To Nodakami, DLKeur, AlterdIIIusions and Weallareone Astral Scene All Things Ancient Egyptian – With Special Thanks To Dawndavies and Dawnsky 2 To The Nile Music Inspired Art – With Special Thanks To TKrosever, Blamo and Paul Stephen Dixon Restoring Harmony Through The Time Lines The Healing Journey – With Special Thanks To Julie Marks Nut 22nd September 2008 Chopin’s Love / / Abstract Group Forefathers – With Special Thanks To Nodakami, DLKeur, AlterdIIIusions and Weallareone / / Abstract Group Tiphareth – With Special Thanks To Nodakami, DLKeur, AlterdIIIusions and Weallareone / / Abstract Group Unseen Love – With Special Thanks To TKrosever, Blamo and Paul Stephen Dixon / Music Inspired Art Leaving Purgatory – With Special Thanks To Kafka and Buddy Sears / / Corporate Art Bosch’s Night Flight – With Special Thanks To Kafka and Buddy Sears / / Corporate Art The Pleiades – With Special Thanks To Kafka and Buddy Sears / / Corporate Art

• GALA EVENT!! MAJOR POW WOW OF ART AND JOY!! RL HALL & LINAJI !!
  by linaji

  LIES PERCEPTIONS AND BELIEFS *BY RL HALL AND LINAJI...

  LIES PERCEPTIONS AND BELIEFS BY RL HALL AND LINAJI A collaboration of loving work between rlhall & linaji – Webs & Layers Your Spiritual side is wise, intuitive, creative, loving, compassionate, peaceful, forgiving, always aspiring to truth and goodness – or – your life is lived in confusion, anger, and perhaps, even, layers of lies and deceit.” ~ Dr. John Sarno, The Divided Mind “If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” / ~ Dogen “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine Saint-Exupéry “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” ~ William Blake _“Believe that your life is worth living, and your belief will create the fact.” ~ William James Acceptance ~ Robert Frost When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud / And goes down burning into the gulf below, / No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud / At what has happened. Birds, at least must know / It is the change to darkness in the sky. / Murmuring something quiet in her breast, / One bird begins to close a faded eye; / Or overtaken too far from his nest, / Hurrying low above the grove, some waif / Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. / At most he thinks or twitters softly, ‘Safe! / Now let the night be dark for all of me. / Let the night be too dark for me to see / Into the future. Let what will be, be.’_ _Layers of Beliefs I have unfurled my wisdom / And before me / I only know / Truths / That have been born and branded / By my hand / How can it be any other way? I have heard and have been told / Of / About / Yours… / But My core is the listener / The one who knew before the knowing / Or of the Telling We are parted now.. / maybe for 4 years or 10 / Maybe it is not again But the knowing you / Was like a root plant / Better left in the shade of its’ own calling Than to open to the sun of my smile / Or yours. Past Lives are just that, / Past.. The Now that pulsates and thrives Has been dropped from view.. It is no longer about you Time for a new lesson Time for a new view._ Thank You Everyone, espically RL Hall for linking into my heart and for setting up most of this show.. her finding the amazing quotes from our favorite poets and leaders made the core of our work shine!! What a pleasure this collaboration was between us!

• Featured Thank you Hosts of the Abstract Art group...
  by amarica

  Thank you so much nodakami , DLKeur , / “Altered Illu…

  Thank you so much nodakami , DLKeur , / Altered Illusions , weallareone and Rachael Comisari of the Abstract Art group for featuring Journey of The Soul I wish you all a very wonderful weekend….hugzzzzzz xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ann

• Now this is a BIG thing!! LOL!
  by Kathie Nichols

  I’ve just sold two calendars Paperbark Art and “Austra…

  I’ve just sold two calendars Paperbark Art and Australian Bark Series – 1 This is no small thing….I’m so excited, jumping all over the place. Soooo….a big THANKYOU to whoever purchased my calendars. best wishes Kathie :) :) :) :) :) UPDATE: OH MY GOSH…..another card sale of my Spider flower and another Calendar of Australian Bark Series! Thankyou so much!!

• September City...Paintings 2001 Illustrated...
  by Janis Zroback

  _My studio was in an uproar as I was redecorating…everything was in boxes packed away…I had to paint, I had to do something to take m…

  My studio was in an uproar as I was redecorating…everything was in boxes packed away…I had to paint, I had to do something to take my mind of the horrors that were being shown day and night and yet I could not turn the television off. / Then I found my large journal with some blank pages in it…o.k. I thought I’ll do some flowers….I could find only some tubes of paint but no brushes…I was desperate…looking around I found something and started to paint with it…I could not really see what I was doing…the images just flowed out of my brain on to the paper…several weeks later I looked at them more closely and then I realized what they were…these are the images that I painted and I gave them titles that I thought expressed the emotion that was felt in the city at the time... / / September City.. still with no idea of what was in store…colours are bright, but on an even keel.. / / September City 2...the days before the horror..no one could imagine how things can change in a day…colours begin to darken… / / September City 3..Chaos...when the horrors started..no where to turn…no where to run…the city is covered in clouds of white dust…colours are dark and obscured…. / / September City..Disbelief...this could not be happening…we should be safe…why is this happening to us? shades of darkness hover over everything now… / / September City..Fear...where next..what is to happen to us…all around us are the shadows of fear…no place to go… / / September City..Lost...we’ll never recover from this…there is no going back…this is the end…. / / September City..Missing...where are they…our loved ones…have you seen this man? / / September City..Redemption...it will take time, but we will recover….we are proud to be Americans… I used acrylic paint and an old plastic membership card, to do these paintings…nothing else...they are dated the week of September 11 2001….

• Featured in Abstract digital Art and Writing
  by ginnymac

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  / thanks so much Linaji“ And Terri Lee“ / super friendly people

• Wow ! OUTSIDE THE VASE is being FEATURED!
  by Madeline M. Allen

  My Smudge Art TM . Outside The Vase is being featured in the wall art! This is my first Smudge Art to be featured! Yipeeeeeeee! !h…

  My Smudge Art TM . Outside The Vase is being featured in the wall art! This is my first Smudge Art to be featured! Yipeeeeeeee! Madeline / Maddy / SmudgeArt

• Sold again: Australia definitely in my heart.
  by Vasile Stan

  My good friend in arts Silvia Manuela from Australia purchased the canvas version of one of my…

  My good friend in arts Silvia Manuela from Australia purchased the canvas version of one of my very recent artworks The colours of Love – Mother and child Thank you so very much Silvia for your committed appreciation of my artwork and for your continuous support. Silvia , a multi talented artist engaged in visual arts and writing poetry, is the third Australian artist to purchase one of my artworks. / Australia is definitely in my heart now. You good Aussie people rock. Perhaps I’m just lucky to be playing your kind of music: music to your eyes. And last but definitely not least, big, big thank you to all of you great artists at RB for your continuous support. You simply make my day. Every day.

• Another sale: for me it's a sail
  by Vasile Stan

  Yes, one of my dear RB friends and a passionate photograph artist, who asked me to keep the anonimity intact, has confessed to the a…

  Yes, one of my dear RB friends and a passionate photograph artist, who asked me to keep the anonimity intact, has confessed to the act of commited appreciation for my art by purchasing three cards: The Communist Party Summer blues Abstract Study I For me this sale, just like every sale, is really a sail that carries away my art to distant shores to those loving my art for reasons I may never know, but only their hearts know. A simple thank you to this wonderful person I feel is enough, because it comes right from the heart with deep appreciation and humble attitude. And perhaps, needless to say, the many thankyou’s I say every day in my heart to all those honoring me with a visit and many even adding a beautiful comment. Thank you again my dear RB friends, your appreciation and attention goes much further than you may think it goes. And it is never forgoten or taken lightly: the gift of time to others is the most precious thing one can give.

• Please Welcome My Mom!
  by Ruth Palmer

  My Mom just opened her own gallery here at Red Bubble and I know it would make her really happy if you would all welcome her. Thanks ever…

  My Mom just opened her own gallery here at Red Bubble and I know it would make her really happy if you would all welcome her. Thanks everyone! Mary Horne

• I'm sold again
  by Vasile Stan

  A day ago, another great artist, SusanC decided she wants my Universe...

  A day ago, another great artist, SusanC decided she wants my Universe as a card, so she went ahead with that impulse and placed the order. Thank you so very much Susan for your commited appreciation of my work. I hope the Universe will bring to your door even more inspiration and creativity. Happiness is a given. Please visit Susan’s art shoppe, she’s got a great palette of wonderful compositions.

• FEATURED "HAUNTING MEMORIES " IN THE ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART AND WRITING GROUP !!!
  by Madeline M. Allen

  *MANY BLESSING AND THANK YOU TO THE ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART AND WRITING GROUP FOR FEATURING MY ARTWORK & POETRY “HAUNTING MEMORIES ” . I AM …

  MANY BLESSING AND THANK YOU TO THE ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART AND WRITING GROUP FOR FEATURING MY ARTWORK & POETRY “HAUNTING MEMORIES ” . I AM SO VERY HONORED ! / HAUNTING MEMORIES / Haunting Memories As I sat by my window one night, / the moons rays streaming in so bright. / My thoughts went back to other years, / and my eyes began to fill with tears. / The haunting memories of a life gone wrong, / remembering the fears I had so strong. / Back then I did pray for change, / but felt it was so very far out of range. / I felt abandoned, lost and all alone, / did not think I could ever atone. / I had hit a bottom so dark and grey, / I could not find a reason to stay. / Then in a moment of utter despair , / I called His name and He was there. / In a burst of transcending spiritual light , / God reached out and held me tight. / Soothed my hurt and dried my tears, / showed me the way to face my fears. / So I then sank on bended knee, / and asked God first for forgiveness you see. / Then as days passed by and I trusted Him, / I found new joy growing deep within. / My life changed that hot June night, / when I was so full of fear and fight. / Today God is always by my side , / and never again will I need to hide Poetry By: Madeline M. Allen

• FEATURED ARTWORK ~ “SWEET GRASS ” BY THE ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART AND WRITING GROUP
  by Madeline M. Allen

  SWEET GRASS was featured in the group “*ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART AND …

  SWEET GRASS was featured in the group ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART AND WRITING / THANK YOU AND SO VERY MUCH, YOU MADE MY MORNING ….. LOVE & HUGS !!!! SWEET GRASS /

• If Pablo dropped round for coffee..
  by Leith O'Malley

  I often wonder about what it would be like to talk to one of the many renowned…

  I often wonder about what it would be like to talk to one of the many renowned artists from years gone by. Particularly the ones who have inspired my own work in some way. I’m really not convinced Pablo Picasso was as difficult a character as the media made him out to be. What sort of conversation would one have with someone like that if he was sitting having coffee in my studio? What would he have to say about my own work and what comments would he offer on the painting I was working on? I’m sure we could share a laugh or two…maybe about his poor English, maybe about my lousy coffee. One sunny afternoon not that long ago, I started preparing a large canvas with a menagerie of oil colour and impasto medium using a spatula and large flat brush. I’d recently watched an autobiographical Jackson Pollock movie and was enjoying taking risks with several cans of paint, a dripping stick and some time on my hands. I always had in mind that eventually the whole canvas would get several washes of burnt sienna so wasn’t too concerned about the clash of colours that afternoon. I’d covered some of this ground with an earlier “Coltrane” painting although I was leaning more towards a Basquiat feel with that piece. I really wasn’t thinking too much past the fact that I simply wanted to have a shot at creating an abstract work I would be pleased with. So I was quietly confident the burnt sienna wash the next morning would pull this whole thing together. After highlighting shadow areas with burnt umber and rubbing back some sections of the painting with a rag, I was pleasantly surprised at how it was turning out, and left it at that on the easel for the next few days. I had four other paintings on the go at that stage (“Red Dust Girl” series) along with another new painting called “Nighthawk”. I would work on these intermittently and every now and again glance over at this new abstract sitting on the easel at the other end of the room. You think about a lot of things when you are painting. Maybe painting is really pondering.. I don’t know. One thing is for sure though, you resolve a lot of things which aren’t always on the canvas in front of you. It’s when the magic happens . Greek mythology speaks of the “muse” as a source of inspiration, accessible by artists and generally restricted to artists. The muse is not in itself a delusion or hallucination, but rather a myth to which writers, musicians, painters, and more are able to credit the conception of their art to. I agree that something unexplainable and mysterious does occur during the creative process and I am continually surprised at what can emerge from a blank canvas if you invite any possibility. I’m not sure what it was that particular night but I started to see something missing in the abstract and it was bugging me. I continued painting one of the Red Dust Girl works and somewhere between the French jazz I was listening to and the second glass of merlot, I started thinking about Picasso. Something about this new abstract reminded me of his work but I didn’t know what. The next few days I buried myself in two old Picasso hard backs I managed to borrow from a local library. One particular book focused on his charcoal work and I fell in love with his “Study for Circus Performers” so much that I cut one picture out and pasted it into my notebook (hopefully the librarian won’t find out). In the later stages of the painting I wanted to collage this onto the work but changed my mind. I’ve revisited Picasso’s work many times over the years and still find myself quite subjective about it. I love his early more figurative, labored pictures along with the pink and blue period but was surprised by his change in style to the abstract in later years. I continued to work on the other paintings over the next few days and pondered again the Picasso connection with the abstract at the far end of the studio. One of the books I had borrowed was sitting on the painting stool next to it. From a portrait on the front cover Picasso seemed to be looking right back. It was an amusing moment and I was struck with the thought of what it would be like if someone like him “just dropped in”. It didn’t take me long to realize the missing piece for the painting, which is ironic considering the inclusion of the collaged piece of a jigsaw puzzle in the foreground of the finished work. So Picasso finally dropped by. We talked. I painted. Sometimes painting leads you into unexpected places, and as the saying goes “if you don’t know where you’re going.. any road will get you there”. Another coffee Pablo? /

• So very cool: my Heart Burning was sold. Twice!
  by Vasile Stan

  They say: when you’re hot, you’re hot … people noticed my Heart burning-...

  They say: when you’re hot, you’re hot … people noticed my Heart burning and, kind and loving beings as they are, bought it from me for full asking price without a blink! First, my very good friend in arts, well known by now for his luminous art and “operating” under the conspicuous names of Mr. B, aka butchart, bought the card version while I was sleeping, tiptoed into RB shop and, without me noticing, bought the card and sneaked right back out as fast as he came. Thank you so, so very much my friend. Just a couple of days later, another very good friend of mine in arts and an outstanding artist, Anthea Slade, have bought my Heart burning in card form and, to make me feel even better, added to it the Tango card, as if to say that she invited my Heart burning to dance. Thank you, thank you, thank you so Anthea. Oh, my good friends in arts, you make me feel too good about my art. / Now, I must better myself again not to dissapoint your kind appreciation. This is such a pleasant burden to have. Thank you so very much again.

• HOT OFF THE PRESS!!!
  by Kathie Nichols

  Yaaayyyyyy…....just had approval for a new group Abstract Macro Urban Art ...

  Yaaayyyyyy…....just had approval for a new group Abstract Macro Urban Art If you are interested in joining please click on the link above. Its Hot off the press, so if you know anyone who would be interested in joining please send them the link! I started this group perhaps as an off-shoot from my group Natures Macro Canvas as there were quite a few incredible photographs submitted that didn’t meet the guidelines for that group and…..didn’t really fit anywhere else…....so…check it out, let me know what you think!! xxx Kathie

• Pay Careful Attention Featured On Home Page Today!
  by Ruth Palmer

  Just want to say thanks to whoever is doing the featuring today for the home page! THANK YOU!

  Just want to say thanks to whoever is doing the featuring today for the home page! THANK YOU!

• Thanks to ADAWG for featuring my work! :-))))))
  by RLHall

  Stop Global Warming before it’s too late w…

  Stop Global Warming before it’s too late was featured in the Abstract Digital Art and Writing group. GRIN:-)

• FOR SALE ! ! 5 GRATITUDE CARDS
  by Madeline M. Allen

  Hello! REDBUBBLERS , you will find now at the top of my profile my / 5 GRATITUDE CARDS ! BEAUTIFUL ORCHID CARDS to send to special peop…

  Hello! REDBUBBLERS , you will find now at the top of my profile my / 5 GRATITUDE CARDS ! BEAUTIFUL ORCHID CARDS to send to special people in your life !!!! If you want them in other sizes , they are ready for you to buy also ! / HAVE A GREAT DAY !!! MADELINE / MADDY / SMUDGEART Flower Power Project 2008 , for all those who have contributed in some form to support the amazing artist community, that wanted to help make a statement, and set a new World Record! COME JOIN US !!!!! Photography By: Madeline M. Allen Thank you for viewing my work. Image copyright © 2007, Madeline M. Allen Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited

• “Genesis” featured in Abstract Macro Urban Art .THANKS!!
  by Marguerite Foxon

  Love this group and it attracts some terrific shots so Im doubly honored that one of mine is featured. / !http://images-0.redbubble.net/im…

  Love this group and it attracts some terrific shots so Im doubly honored that one of mine is featured. /