Check out my post over on Big Things today! I write about my dis­dain for the comic Cathy. Read some and you might see why. Also, if you like 30 Rock, this exists (about Cathy): ...

It’s Tues­day, and another install­ment of Time Travel Tues­day with Rebecca of Big Things! Today we take a look at Mor­ris Louis: After Helen Franken­thaler died last week, I started read­ing more about the Color Field painters and became intrigued by Mor­ris Louis and his enor­mous can­vases of rich color. Orig­i­nally from Bal­ti­more, he lived and ...

It’s Tues­day, and another install­ment of Time Travel Tues­day with Rebecca of Big Things! Today we take a look at Pochoir: Pochoir was a tech­nique of color illus­tra­tion that orig­i­nated in China, was employed in Japan­ese prints in the 19th cen­tury, and was used widely in pub­li­ca­tions in 1920s Paris. The beau­ti­ful, richly col­ored plates ...

As a kid I loved Mark Kistler and his Draw Squad. Head on over to BIG THINGS to read about this weird per­sonal phe­nom­ena. Below is a video les­son (a sam­pling), com­plete with awe­some intro song. ...

With­out plan­ning, Rebecca of BIG THINGS and I traded our Time Travel Tues­day posts of an artist and car­toon­ist that we both enjoyed as chil­dren and later redis­cov­ered. Check out what Rebecca has to say about the Russ­ian artist, Nathal­ija Gontcharova! (And, read more of our Time Travel Tues­day posts!) ——– Last week at the ...

Many thanks to Rebecca for shar­ing the beau­ti­ful Chi­nese shadow pup­pets today! Check out what I had to say about the pho­tog­ra­phy of Bernd and Hilla Becher over on Big Things! ...

By now it’s safe to say that Time Travel Tues­day has really turned into a col­lab­o­ra­tion with Rebecca of Big Things. I love trad­ing artists/posts with her, and today she’s cho­sen to write about Chi­nese Shadow Pup­pets. Take it away, Rebecca! ——— For this week’s Time Travel Tues­day, we head over to China to explore ...

Rebecca always picks some­thing great to write about, does she not? I loved learn­ing about Nor­man Zammitt. Check out my post on the Big Things blog! I wrote about the paint­ings and phi­los­o­phy of Gior­gio de Chirico. ...

By now it’s safe to say that Time Travel Tues­day has really turned into a col­lab­o­ra­tion with Rebecca of Big Things. I love trad­ing artists/posts with her, and today she’s cho­sen to write about the works of Nor­man Zam­mitt. Take it away, Rebecca! ———- Nor­man Zammitt’s melt-in-your-mouth color-scapes are the per­fect poster child for Cal­i­for­nia ...

Check out what I had to say about African masks today on Big Things! This is how many turns of swap­ping Time Travel Tues­day posts? It’s always fun to see what Rebecca chooses to write about! ...