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B Altman Art: April 2013
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My Work and Life as an Artist. Monday, April 29, 2013. Once again taking the Open Studio Leap . . Or Just Another Excuse to Clean up the Workp lace? Right brain vs left brain. Sometime ago when I most assuredly was not in my right mind (or more likely having lost the memory of all the stress, hard work and angst that was bound to come), I agreed to join my good studio friend and artist, Tyrell Collins in participating in the Annual Pro Arts East Bay Open Studios this year. This year I will be spending th...
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B Altman Art: Stop Me If You've Heard This Here Before...
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My Work and Life as an Artist. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Stop Me If You've Heard This Here Before. Or Once Again, Learning to Live with the “New Normal”. But since January of this year, this has completely changed. The first symptom came in the cold, dank, grey Berlin winter where we went to celebrate my mom-in-law’s 93. The first diagnosis was pneumonia and I was sent home with a course of antibiotics and told to rest. But after a week of rest, which didn’t help my breathing, my doctor said she s...After t...
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B Altman Art: August 2012
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My Work and Life as an Artist. Thursday, August 30, 2012. Cyberspace Connects My Past to My Present . . . Or How A Facebook Friend Becomes More Than A Daily Click. When an event occurs which somehow presses you into viewing the arc of your life, it’s a gift. I’ve had many of these “gifts” over the years, but the latest is perhaps the most surprising. And the most gratifying. Of a 250 mile radius of the Quad Cities, who have Quad City connections to come back home and share their art with the community...
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B Altman Art: June 2014
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My Work and Life as an Artist. Thursday, June 26, 2014. It Feels Like I'm On A Roll . . . Or How Getting Up Off My Duff and Putting My Work Out There Paid Off. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t been aware of this before. Hasn’t this been the underlying (if not specific) theme throughout my creative life? One Out of Nine - hanging at home. 2800 Rads - currently in the studio. Jewel Of Hope - hanging at home. Myth of the Cure - sold. Http:/ iah.commonweal.org/events/muse. Labels: 2 dimensional mixed media. 8221;...
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B Altman Art: August 2011
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My Work and Life as an Artist. Monday, August 1, 2011. Or You See Piles, I See Creative Clutter. 8220;An artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there’s a difference: hoarders collect indiscriminately, the artist collects selectively. They only collect things that they really love.”. From How to Steal Like an Artist, www.austinkleon.com. Our "basement" which will soon be transformed. We are cleaning out our “basement” (really, just an overly large furnace area with shelving). When we decided to g...
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B Altman Art: September 2014
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My Work and Life as an Artist. Sunday, September 14, 2014. Seeing My Work Through the Eyes of Others . . . Or Who Needs Google Glass When You Have Friends? Beka, a woman who found my work by Googling “porcelain pinch pots” and is on her own journey playing in the mud, recently wrote,. Now that made me smile. But did I ever think about my work buried in a mound of leaves or mosses out there somewhere in the woods? Or being tangled up in a heap of seaweed along some lonely beach? And then there’s my ...
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B Altman Art: October 2013
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My Work and Life as an Artist. Monday, October 14, 2013. Be Careful What You Hope For . . . Or Good things do come to those who hope - with a little elbow grease. Open Studios - 2013. Who said “it takes a village”? Well, it took a village to get my studio open this year and I am forever grateful. That was in June. Sometime in August, I got this email:. Kind Regards, Gary Comoglio. Check out his website:. That's Gary on the right, looking mighty pleased. The alleyway to the Gary Francis Fine Art Gallery.
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B Altman Art: April 2012
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My Work and Life as an Artist. Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Back In the Saddle Again . . . Or How the New Normal Is Just Like the Old Normal . . . Almost. A palm full of clay. Starting to form the walls. Thinning begins by mostly pinching. It’s like a zen meditation. Pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch.pull. Pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch.pull. Pulling on the inside brings walls up. Smooth and scrape the inside. Push to get the cracks to form on the outside. There is something philosophical in that last statement if you ...
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B Altman Art: Seeing My Work Through the Eyes of Others . . .
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My Work and Life as an Artist. Sunday, September 14, 2014. Seeing My Work Through the Eyes of Others . . . Or Who Needs Google Glass When You Have Friends? Beka, a woman who found my work by Googling “porcelain pinch pots” and is on her own journey playing in the mud, recently wrote,. Now that made me smile. But did I ever think about my work buried in a mound of leaves or mosses out there somewhere in the woods? Or being tangled up in a heap of seaweed along some lonely beach? And then there’s my ...
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B Altman Art: May 2014
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My Work and Life as an Artist. Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Support Is Where You Find It If You Look . . . Or Never Underestimate the Resourcefulness of the Creative Mind. Working primarily on small pinched vessels, I often am at the point in the process where the clay is still malleable and not able to sit on a flat surface without losing its lovely rounded bottom. So what to do? I think the two plus years I spent as an art teacher in Uganda, East Africa helped expand my ability to be both inventive and a cl...