Karen Margolis

For some of these works Karen Margolis uses old worn out road maps that have been watercolored and then "bored into"  using a soldering iron. There are layers of these maps set on top of each other. For the paintings on paper Margolis is exploring "what thoughts and emotions might look like in the brain". She says: "I translate my interior monologues into molecular patterns of color". The intimacy of these works is so appealing, and especially knowing what she is concerned with recording. 

Olson House

Here is a funny little black and white album of photos I took at the Olson House in Cushing, Maine. You know how I love that place. I took a visiting friend down there last week. She got me hooked on Instagram...uh oh. So I took these with my iPhone and then monkeyed around with various apps, and here is what I got. The amazing thing about Instagram and all these apps is that it's like having photoshop in your phone...and not having to really learn it to use it! Can you say "time suck"?

Sketchbooks

Jeffrey DeCoster

Craig Atkinson

Vincent Griffin

Netali Ron-Raz

Laurent Moreau

Jon MacNair (?) via sweetsound/Tumblr

You know my love of sketchbooks. Here are a few found through Pinterest and Tumblr. Go over to my Pinterest board Sketchbooks & Journals, here, to see lots more. There is something about the way artists work in a sketchbook that brings out a natural, playful freedom. I always have a sketchbook handy, and it's where I really explore what is developing in my work.