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Sennen Cove, digital image, Vivien Blackburn WATERMARKS Our new group blog Watermarks launches today ! You are cordially invited to come and take a look. Members are a really talented, interesting and varied group from around the world. Watermarks is about seascapes, rivers, canals, lakes, streams, ponds, fountains and more, and the different mark making we all use to describe what interests us in our subject matter, light, the people there, a sense of place, abstracting from the subject - all of us with different intentions, media and visual language. We plan to show work, talk about work in progress, artists that interest us, materials - anything and everything to do with our work about water. So come and visit Gesa, Laura, Lindsay, Jeanette, Katherine, Ronell, Sarah, Tina, and I and welcome :>)

Barney Davey on his blog http://barneydavey.blogs.com/printmarket/ gives a long list of things to blog about and I thought it was a pretty good list and worth quoting here: 52 blog topics for artists - Courtesy of Art Print Issues 1. Why I support xyz charity 2. The most inspiring art teacher I have known ..... good one 3. How I came to know being a professional artist was my career path ... talked about this a bit 4. Why I love working with xyz medium ... done that :>) 5. What you can learn from the traveling exhibit at the abc museum ... done that :>) 6. Four galleries I would love to carry my work and why 7. Five contemporary artists whose works inspire and inform me done that 8. Clues to the subtle messages in my work 9. My color palette is (nature/technology/environment) driven and why 10. Ten things they don't teach you in art school 11. How being in the business of art affects my art 12. When I paint, I like to listen to Guns n' Roses/London Philharmonic/Enya/Tob...

I've taken a few days off painting to catch up on a million and one other tasks so I thought I'd share some of the artists who blog and that I read regularly. I'm mentioning them in alphabetical order as they come up on bloglines. There are others but I can't list them all ! As it is you can see that I spend too much time on the computer! .... well it's better than Wimbledon, football, racing, you-name-it that himself is watching. First off Anita http://am-art.blogspot.com/ who does the most beautiful work in pencil and pastel. I was first amazed by the cutlery she drew in pencil and her current series of pastels, used in rather un-traditional way have an incredible presence and mood to them. Patrice http://aquamarelle.blogspot.com/ who not only handles watercolours brilliantly but catches the excitement and drama and movement of sailing equally brilliantly. Derek http://derekjonesart.blogspot.com/ who paints the figure and also recently has done a beautiful se...

Thank you Katherine :) ( http://makingamark.blogspot.com/ ) who tagged me. I'd read about this on Maggie's blog recently and the idea sounded fun - I've already bookmarked some interesting blogs that I hadn't come across from the tags people have listed :) . So ..... I have to pass on 7 interesting links and include 7 little known facts? ok here goes :) interesting blogs that hopefully haven't yet been tagged http://aquamarelle.blogspot.com/ Patrice Large - I know I wrote an article on him, but I'm hoping he will come up with 7 really interesting and totally new links for us http://bgmartjournal.blogspot.com/ Bridgette Guerzon Mills - I love her abstracted encaustic pieces, I've never worked with encaustic and would love to try it. http://idlethoughtsofanidlewoman.blogspot.com/ A great blog by an Australian artist with a lovely sense of humour http://valeriebutters.blogspot.com/ Huge vibrant, bristling with life, canvasses of flowers, a French Canadian,...

work by Patrice Large - link below When I started blogging I wasn't at all sure whether I'd continue and it felt rather strange talking to thin air :) As time went on and people responded and I felt more comfortable, the readership really grew and I really enjoyed the dialogue and the discovery of so many interesting blogs out there and some really nice and exceedingly talented, and often very funny, people. And they didn't seem to object to long rambling sentences like that ;) I keep discovering new and fascinating blogs :) one recent one is Patrice Large ( and it helps me brush up on my French) - if you don't speak French you won't be able to read it but you'll certainly appreciate the sheer drama of his watercolours of sailing. http://aquamarelle.blogspot.com/ and http://aquamarelle.blogspot.com/2005/06/mes-aquarelles-noir-et-blancmy-black.html I'm a scaredy cat who'd never set foot in a boat in the conditions he paints - millpond calm does me fin...