Yarrow's Blog http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/ A blog for Minnesota-based watercolor artist Yarrow Brown en-US http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Link to WBKT's art blog http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=link-to-wbkt-s-art-blog&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:18:52 +0000 Yarrow News 35@http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/ <p>Check out this link to WKBT's art blog and see my work.<br /> <a href="http://art.blogs.wkbt.com/">http://art.blogs.wkbt.com/</a></p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=link-to-wbkt-s-art-blog&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> Check out this link to WKBT's art blog and see my work.
http://art.blogs.wkbt.com/

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]]> http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=link-to-wbkt-s-art-blog&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments It's Actually Fun Being an Artist http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=it-s-actually-fun-being-an-artist&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:13:25 +0000 Yarrow Artist Rant Sessions 34@http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/ <p><img src="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/rsc/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="&#58;&#68;" class="middle" /> My recent experience with this year's art tour was positive, refreshing, stimulating and good for the ego. I had forgotten how nice it is to talk "art" with another artist and to talk "art" with non-artists. I thoroughly enjoyed my self. I didn't have all of the stress associated with moving artwork to a far location, borrowing other people's display equipment or worrying about making enough sales to justify my existence. Yes, it wasn't easy to move the art and set up the display but it was way easier this year. I enjoyed the weekend and hope you did too. <img src="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/rsc/smilies/grayyes.gif" alt="&#58;&#121;&#101;&#115;&#58;" class="middle" /></p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=it-s-actually-fun-being-an-artist&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> :D My recent experience with this year's art tour was positive, refreshing, stimulating and good for the ego. I had forgotten how nice it is to talk "art" with another artist and to talk "art" with non-artists. I thoroughly enjoyed my self. I didn't have all of the stress associated with moving artwork to a far location, borrowing other people's display equipment or worrying about making enough sales to justify my existence. Yes, it wasn't easy to move the art and set up the display but it was way easier this year. I enjoyed the weekend and hope you did too. :yes:

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]]> http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=it-s-actually-fun-being-an-artist&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments What's been Happening lately http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=what-s-been-happening-lately&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:54:24 +0000 Yarrow Background 33@http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/ <p><img src="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/rsc/smilies/icon_cry.gif" alt="&#58;&#39;&#40;" class="middle" />My friend, Vic, died last September and I have been depressed ever since. Well, maybe not as much as I was. But it really knocked the stuffing out of me. I've been trying to find meaning in my art work but can't seem to make anything worth viewing. So I decided to wait a while and see what happens. I've brought more attention to my hobbies because they seem safe, friendly and non-threatening. And it has been good to simply relax and have a little fun. </p> <p>I'm thinking that the time has come when I need to start producing art again. And I'm afraid that the talent has left me. I feel like an empty box. What if I can't ever paint again? What will happen to me? Will anyone care? Will I care? Does it matter? Has anyone out there had to deal with the fear of painting ability leaving? Please let me know if you have had this fear and how you dealt with it.<img src="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/rsc/smilies/graybigeek.gif" alt="&#56;&#56;&#124;" class="middle" /></p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=what-s-been-happening-lately&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> :'(My friend, Vic, died last September and I have been depressed ever since. Well, maybe not as much as I was. But it really knocked the stuffing out of me. I've been trying to find meaning in my art work but can't seem to make anything worth viewing. So I decided to wait a while and see what happens. I've brought more attention to my hobbies because they seem safe, friendly and non-threatening. And it has been good to simply relax and have a little fun.

I'm thinking that the time has come when I need to start producing art again. And I'm afraid that the talent has left me. I feel like an empty box. What if I can't ever paint again? What will happen to me? Will anyone care? Will I care? Does it matter? Has anyone out there had to deal with the fear of painting ability leaving? Please let me know if you have had this fear and how you dealt with it.88|

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]]> http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=what-s-been-happening-lately&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments Post Show Blues http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=post-show-blues&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:01:20 +0000 Yarrow Artist Rant Sessions 32@http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/ <p><img src="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/rsc/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif" alt="&#58;&#114;&#111;&#108;&#108;&#58;" class="middle" /> So I just finished doing the Historic Bluff Country Studio Artists' Tour and I am wiped out. There were so many people; well it was a fantastic turn out and I'm so glad that people came from so far away. Glad, but exhausted. I wish I could have talked longer to individuals. I dreaded all day the moment of taking everything down and packing it up. By the end of the last day I was so tired, I wasn't sure that I'd make it home. I did make it home safely and I got everything put away. I'm feeling a little let down, a little sad. What is this feeling that makes me want to stop trying to sell my art? Is it just exhaustion or is it something deeper? I'm sure that I'll be fine, but I do feel adrift. <img src="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/rsc/smilies/icon_sad.gif" alt="&#58;&#40;" class="middle" /></p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=post-show-blues&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> :roll: So I just finished doing the Historic Bluff Country Studio Artists' Tour and I am wiped out. There were so many people; well it was a fantastic turn out and I'm so glad that people came from so far away. Glad, but exhausted. I wish I could have talked longer to individuals. I dreaded all day the moment of taking everything down and packing it up. By the end of the last day I was so tired, I wasn't sure that I'd make it home. I did make it home safely and I got everything put away. I'm feeling a little let down, a little sad. What is this feeling that makes me want to stop trying to sell my art? Is it just exhaustion or is it something deeper? I'm sure that I'll be fine, but I do feel adrift. :(

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]]> http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=post-show-blues&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments The Fun of Being an Artist http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=the-fun-of-being-an-artist&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:34:03 +0000 Yarrow Welcome Art 31@http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/ <p>I have my ups and downs as an artist. February started out so hopeful and the paintings were going so well that it was almost inevitable that I would crash and burn. Suddenly all of the hopeful beginnings looked like crap. Nothing I did would make the magic happen. It was looking very grim as I am trying to paint new ones to enter into several shows and I didn't think that anyone would like them because I sure didn't. Then just as suddenly the magic happened and I am hopeful again. I may have a shot at entering these shows after all.<img src="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/rsc/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="&#58;&#68;" class="middle" /></p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=the-fun-of-being-an-artist&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> I have my ups and downs as an artist. February started out so hopeful and the paintings were going so well that it was almost inevitable that I would crash and burn. Suddenly all of the hopeful beginnings looked like crap. Nothing I did would make the magic happen. It was looking very grim as I am trying to paint new ones to enter into several shows and I didn't think that anyone would like them because I sure didn't. Then just as suddenly the magic happened and I am hopeful again. I may have a shot at entering these shows after all.:D

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]]> http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=the-fun-of-being-an-artist&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments Art Business Stuff http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=art-business-stuff&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:57:01 +0000 Yarrow Artist Rant Sessions 29@http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/ <p>Am I the only artist with this problem? When I want to enter shows I run into such different requirements. One show accepts digital images, another wants slides, and yet another requires photos. Can't we have the same standards? I used to have slides made of all of my work until the photographer at the camera store wasn't allowed to shoot my work on slide film. I say, let's get rid of the slide requirement entirely. I am not a photographer and no matter how much training I get I never will be. I'm a terrible photographer.<img src="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/rsc/smilies/icon_twisted.gif" alt="&#58;&#62;" class="middle" /></p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=art-business-stuff&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> Am I the only artist with this problem? When I want to enter shows I run into such different requirements. One show accepts digital images, another wants slides, and yet another requires photos. Can't we have the same standards? I used to have slides made of all of my work until the photographer at the camera store wasn't allowed to shoot my work on slide film. I say, let's get rid of the slide requirement entirely. I am not a photographer and no matter how much training I get I never will be. I'm a terrible photographer.:>

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]]> http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=art-business-stuff&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments First time-be gentle http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=first-time-be-gentle&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:29:17 +0000 Yarrow Welcome 28@http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/ <p>Ok, I have entered artistic cyber-space and I'm thrilled and a little nervous. I am getting ready for the Winona Art Center Members' Exhibition and will be delivering a painting on Friday or Monday if I can't get off work. I will be updating my web site to include the blog for others. The life of an artist isn't all tea and crumpets, but I'll talk about that later. That's all for now.<img src="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/rsc/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="&#58;&#68;" class="middle" /></p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.yarrowbrown.com/blog/?title=first-time-be-gentle&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> Ok, I have entered artistic cyber-space and I'm thrilled and a little nervous. I am getting ready for the Winona Art Center Members' Exhibition and will be delivering a painting on Friday or Monday if I can't get off work. I will be updating my web site to include the blog for others. The life of an artist isn't all tea and crumpets, but I'll talk about that later. That's all for now.:D

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