Art Blog for The Inspiration Place

Creating art with both beauty and meaning.

Rose Symbolism in Elizabethan Poetry by Miriam Schulman @schulmanArt


Go Forth Lovely Rose, mixed media collage art 11x15"
This mixed media collage art started as a simply drawn and painted watercolor and layers of beauty and meaning were added as the painting metamorphosed like the butterflies floating around the girls head. The woman in the purple dress tightly clutches a rose and her beauty is...

Looking for inspiration when the Olympics are over?

Live by What You Believe So Fully that Your Life Blossoms
by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt

Live by What you Believe! Original Inspirational Art
You can't fail to be inspired by the Olympic athletes who are swimming, diving and tumbling through grueling body punishing competitions. How do you keep that inspiration growing all year? Surround yourself with inspirational art. Whether you like to collect...

Plant Your Own Garden and Decorate Your Own Soul

Inspirational Art to Decorate your Life!
by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt

Inspirational Art by Miriam Schulman
Surround yourself with art that inspires you and that you love. This inspirational quote on the art reads: "Plant Your Own Garden and Decorate Your Own Soul" The message is from a poem by Veronica Shoffstall "You Learn"  ... After a while you learn... That even sunshine burns if you get too...

Inspirational Art is Theme of New Series of Original Works

Magic is Believing in Yourself  
by @schulmanArt, Miriam Schulman 

For my social media platforms such as twitter and facebook I have fallen into the habit of using inspirational quotes along with links to my listings. I feel this keeps my self-promotion efforts from being too spammy and adds some nice content to my sites. For my latest series of artworks, I have let the inspirational quotes take...

Symbolism in Figurative Painting

"Garden Path with Sophia"
by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt


Garden Path with Sophia
The watercolor illustration of an Alexander McQueen design makes a great fashion gift for the fashionista in your life.

The abstract interpretation of a fashion illustration also is a chic decorating idea to enhance your room decor with modern wall art that is a conversation piece as well has a fashion statement. The...

What inspires me to create my art

I never run out of ideas, only time
by Miriam Schulman



How to incorporate Alexander McQueen Style on a starving Artist budget

Affordable Avant-garde
by @lindsayleboyer, guest blogger Lindsay LeBoyer

Over half a million visitors have flocked to the Metropolitan Museum this summer for the Alexander McQueen fashion retrospective, Savage Beauty. Although McQueen is primarily known for his beautiful, gothic style gowns worthy of high society balls you may be wondering how to incorporate elements of his style into your everyday...

Romantic Melancholy: Art inspired by Sarabande

~Alexander McQueen's Most Romantic Runway show as Artistic Inspiration~
by Miriam Schulman.
Spanish Rose, original watercolor by Schulman
The Alexander McQueen show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has the flower dress on display which inspired this painting. There are more watercolors in this series where art meets fashion and fashion meets art. Inspired by Alexander McQueen's dress, Sarabande and...

Inspired by the Models and Fashion of Alexander McQueen.

Art of the Muse.
by Miriam Schulman

Fashion illustrations and fantasy art inspired by Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (still going on thru August 7, 2011)

Chess Queen
Size: 16x20"
Media: Watercolor on Canvas Board
Blue and purple butterflies lift the queen off her feet and carry her away.

The Alexander McQueen show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has...

Art of the Muse

Inspired by the Models and Fashion of Alexander McQueen.
by Miriam Schulman~

The Alexander Mc Queen show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has the red butterfly hat on display which inspired this painting. There are more watercolors in this series where art meets fashion and fashion meets art.
Butterfly Fairy-Goddess, 11x14" watercolor on Canvas Board by Miriam Schulman
Butterflies are the...

Symbols of Death, Birth and Renewal in the Art of Alexander McQueen

Savage Beauty Review
by Miriam Schulman

Alexander McQueen used fashion as his artistic medium; however, the genius is in the conceptual ideas that act as the creative catalyst behind each collection. Themes of death, birth and renewal repeat in the fashion collections of the late McQueen. The exhibition currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has lines snaking around the museum like a ride at...

Alexander McQueen brings an artist's touch to his designs

Wearable Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by guest blogger, Lindsay LeBoyer

MET's 82nd street entrance(photo LeBoyer)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute is currently showing an exhibition called Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. The exhibit shows the designs of Alexander McQueen from his graduate collection at Central St. Martins College of Art to the final collection at his...