This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Learns From the Best
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Really Needs To “Apply Itself”
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Runs the River
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Strolls Down Memory Lane
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Bursts At The Seams
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Scrambles For Inspiration
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Is Helped Back Into the Saddle
Note: I toyed with the idea of making this a “How We Got Here” post, but there was too much impressionistic and personal material to really separate from the strictly historical paragraphs on the Highland Clearances. Nevertheless, tagging it as … Continue reading Caledonian Flaneurade: Scotland Report, 2019
A couple of years ago, my dad finally pulled the trigger on a lifelong wish to take the family—he, his fifth wife, his four sons (two of us from his first wife and another two from his third), and my … Continue reading The Smoke: London Report, 2019
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Goes On Holiday
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Broods Over the Future
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Bowls With Others
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Does a Retouch
Happy Friday, everyone! The Detroit Institute of Arts is one of my favorite art museums, and not just because I live an hour or so away. The premier art museum in Michigan, and one of the best in the Midwest, … Continue reading The Detroit Institute of Arts Day Thread
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Keeps Its Powder Dry
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings or photography. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or purchase your work). Please do continue to preface … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Goes For An Upgrade
“There isn’t much good portrait painting being done today, and I think it is because with all this war, commercialism and fascism, human beings have been steadily marked down in value, despised, rejected and degraded.” –Alice Neel, 1950 Alice Neel … Continue reading The Alice Neel Day Thread
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings or photography. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or purchase your work). Please do continue to preface … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Was Out of Season
Hughie Lee-Smith (1915-99) was a prominent African-American painter of the twentieth century whose work dealt not only with the problems and circumstance of marginalized communities but also the anomie and alienation often found in post-WW2 America (as in 1953’s The … Continue reading Hughie Lee-Smith Day Thread
Horace Pippin (1886-1946) was a prominent African American artist, primarily known for his self-taught “folk art” that eschewed academic training or modernist theories and largely sprang from his own learning and experiences. Born in Pennsylvania, he grew up in upstate … Continue reading The Horace Pippin Day Thread
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings or photography (craft projects such as knitting and woodworking are welcome, but there’s also a dedicated space for those at … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Casts Blame
