Category Archives: Art + Photography

Painting Watercolors #6: California Sunset

My latest watercolor painting was inspired by an Instagram post by my friend, photographer Natalie Moser. It is a pic of her son on a Southern California beach at sunset: I asked Natalie if she was ok with me painting it and she sent along the full-size, original iPhone image for inspiration. Because she actually […]

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Artist of the Week: Annie Leibovitz

I’ve been posting the Artist of the Week series for a while now and so it’s time to mention America’s household name in photography, Annie Leibovitz. I don’t know what it is about Annie—that she shoots for widely read publications like Vogue and Vanity Fair? famously captured the last photo of John Lennon? was recently in the news for financial […]

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Ira Glass on the Creative Process

A friend posted the following video on Facebook the other day and I think it’s worth a watch for everyone in a creative field. It’s public radio host, Ira Glass‘s, take on the creative process translated to video by Get Out of the Box: I know we can all relate to this on some level. When you […]

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inFocus: Artist Allison Trentelman

This week’s artist is a bit of a departure from those featured thus far. She’s probably not yet a household name but she sure is talented and she has a very clear photographic style. Without further ado, I’d like to introduce you to Allison Trentelman. Allison is a fine art photographer from Maine. A few years […]

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Artist of the Week: Phil Borges

I really enjoy social documentary photographer Phil Borges (b. 1942). He’s one of those artists whose work is instantly recognizable. That’s why I featured him as a ‘Photographer with Style’ in my Art Aligned guide for photographers and now as Artist of the Week. Phil grew up amidst the hippie subculture of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury but went […]

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