Holiday Art Crawl

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We have a new schedule this year! The North Central Louisiana Arts Council–NCLAC, pronounced “Nick-Lack”–has made some changes to its holiday arts celebration and fair in downtown Ruston, La. But first things first: I will be there, as I was last year. This year, I have been assigned to be one of several artists to make our work and wares available at Ruston Artisans, a beautiful new gallery at 203 W. Alabama St. in Ruston.re Last year the Holiday Art Crawl (formerly called the Holiday Arts Tour) was scheduled a Friday night and Saturday. This year we will be open…

Almost missed!

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I’m not much of a morning person. Nightowl, actually. But I spent this past weekend in Chicago and environs, and my hotel in Evanston was just four blocks from Lake Michigan. Really? How often are you this close to a sunrise over a magnificent lake? Surely you can get up, bundle up, and do it this once! And I did. Sunday, Oct. 21. I got there as the sky was beginning to lighten–enough to see that a huge dark cloud bank hung low in the eastern sky. Oh, well, I’m here. I’m not going back without shooting! And I have…

Puzzled? Read on!

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In my earlier post about puzzles, I mentioned that I will have four designs of Limited Edition puzzles for sale at tomorrow’s Brew on the Bridge. That’s Oct. 13, 11 – 2, on the Endom Bridge between Monroe and West Monroe. The third design is another from my “creation photography” collection. The subject is a Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) butterfly, and the fact that they are common in Louisiana does not diminish their beauty at all! In this puzzle image, the butterfly is perched on a purple flower with light glowing through is gorgeously marked wings.   The fourth design…

#HookedOnSquares

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At the risk of sounding utterly uncool, I must say that I love squares! In fact, maybe it’s challenges I love. As a teacher of visual communication, I know well that the inherited wisdom about square shapes is that they are static, stodgy, etc. ‘Use squares when you want to convey stability and conformity,’ the textbooks say. Well, phooey, I say! So about two years ago I began my #HookedOnSquares project. If you google that hashtag, it should pull up a number of photographs I have shared online. Better yet, click on this link, which will take you to the…

Puzzle Passion

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My Facebook friends know well: I love puzzles! And it occurred to me that others might enjoy puzzles made with my images, perhaps as much as I enjoy making them. In fact, I started making them online long before I decided to have some actually manufactured to sell. “Red Buckeye” (above) was available online for about a year. It was put together by folks online a thousand times in the first few days, and by the time I took it down recently, it had been put together by more than 2,000 people. Pretty cool! These are Limited Edition puzzles. No…