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PICTURE GREATER WITH CHARLIE SANDBO AT TIGARD ART WEEKEND 2023

May 21, 2023 by

Picture Greater challenges us with: How did you get that picture. I’ve always wondered how skilled photographers did it. Now I know. They do it with patience and vision. The end result is falling in love with an image. Charlie Sandbo is matchmaker between you and a print you need, but didn’t know. Now you […]

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GIFT GIVING? HOLD MY BEER SIGN

January 4, 2022 by

Gift giving is such a mixed bag of emotions. From the funny: “Oh thank you, thank you, thank you, this is just what I wanted.” To the sad: “I didn’t know what to give you, so…” For reference, no one wants a beer sign after college, at least that’s the common adult thing. Beer sign […]

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BEGIN AGAIN TO AVOID PERMANENT QUITTER ATTITUDE

August 5, 2021 by

Failure awaits those who forget to begin again. It’s one thing to walk away from mistakes, and only one way to make it better. You need to look at what happened, and begin again. Make a new mistake, learn from the process and fail better. I can’t recommend it as an every day thing like […]

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ART WORLD DEFAULTS TO TRUTH IN THE ORSAY

February 27, 2020 by

Did the art world need a change in 1849? Who knows, I was just trying to keep up on a march through Paris in 2019. Ah, Paris. Just saying the name brings it all back: the museums, memorials, and churches; the neighborhoods, the Metro, and Versailles. Nothing hit harder than the painting in the top […]

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SANDWICH GENERATION GRANDY MAKES THE RIGHT CALL

June 13, 2018 by

I am in a storage space in my house throwing away rings of gauze and squirt bottles of skin care and wound cleaner. It’s a throwback moment with Grandy, my mother in law who passed two years ago. If I had PTSD I would have been thrown back. Instead it was a sweet memory. But […]

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HOW TO WRITE AN ARTIST REVIEW pt 3: HANS SCHIEBOLD

April 6, 2016 by

Seeing art online is instant replay; seeing Hans Schiebold in gallery is game time. An artist review isn’t a trip to the dentist. You don’t need to pull any teeth to get it done. If the artist is someone you see weekly, and they don’t like your review, welcome to the party. Be fair and […]

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BOOMER FUTURE, WITH BELLS

July 27, 2015 by

Paolo Soleri Sets The Stage With A Desert Vision Of Boomer Future. It might be a Star Wars set, a home on a distant planet, but it’s not. Instead you see the cement/earthen buildings of Cosanti in Arizona. Some of you might mistake Arizona for a distant planet, and you wouldn’t be far off. With […]

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