Art Blog for The Inspiration Place

As an artist blogger I feel a tremendous responsibility to turn a spotlight on women artists. Since  Frida Kahlo is currently at the New York Botanical Gardens, I want to share a guest blog post I wrote.

Turn a spotlight on Women Artists

This post is part of my "Famous Women Artists" series where I turn the spotlight on different women artists on my blog. Blenda Tyvoll has asked me to focus on...

The diamond-rich region of India attracted artists, poets, writers, and traders from all over the world who were inspired by all that sparkles.  The diamonds were passed down through royal courts and some made their way to Europe.  This exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art brings together the opulence, elegance and fantasy of that era including diamonds the size of gum balls, rich...

A lot of my art journal pages revolve around my word for the year. If you do not have a word for the year, it is not too late. I love having the word because it is a source of a plethora of ideas that get my creative juices flowing. My word for the year is "purpose."

Choose an Animal Totem To do this two page spread, you can copy the dictionary definition on to your art journal page. For the main...

Maurice Prendergast: Boston Public Garden Watercolors  through Sept 7th, 2015 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The exhibition of Maurice Predergast is a sentimental look at Victorian era Boston viewed through the eyes of the artist. The exhibit is situated directly beneath the Van Gogh exhibit so you can definitely see both in one day as I did in late June. The watercolors all come from a single...