Featured Artist: Robin Pedrero

    Artist Statement I respond to what catches my eyes and heart using colors, shapes and lines. I desire to capture simple pleasures, wind in the trees, atmospheric reflections, people and places around the world. I personify nature through color and movement evoking moods of transition, strength, and serenity. I use my fingers of both hands to blend pastels and sculpt form through layering pigment; pastel being one of the purest pigments. As I work the images can be unexpected, … [Read more...]

Profile: Fip Buchanan

::: Artist Name::  Fip Buchanan ::: Media:::  Primarily skin and ink (tattooing), also watercolor and acrylic ::: Website::: www.fiptattoos.com ::: 1 ::: When did you first realize you were an artist? Did you draw as a kid? Color outside the lines? I've been drawing all my life. My mother still has art I did when I was about 2 years old. I never liked coloring books much, I reperred to draw my own pictures. ::: 2 ::: Why did you become a tattoo artist? Do you consider it … [Read more...]

Marketing Monday: be a profiler

  Before you can really think about developing a relationship it might be a good idea to think seriously about who it is you want to relate to!! Remember when you were dating you probably didn’t say “I just want a man/woman” that is a pretty big pot to fish in. You most likely had some vision of who a potential date and eventually partner might be, so you may have made a list: No nose picking No spitting Yes good looks Yes likes the outdoors Yes … [Read more...]

A Long List Of Free (and almost free) Stuff

This is part of my endless list of free stuff from the web.  Believe it or not, most of the graphics offered on the sites listed below are free. HOWEVER they are all offered under different licensing agreements- some require a link back to the designer's website, some required copyright credits, others require nothing at all. Make sure you read the licensing agreements carefully. Don't abuse an artist's intellectual property rights and they will keep sharing their work with … [Read more...]