This bits and clips post is a monthly feature on this blog of the best that I’ve seen on the internet in the past month. I hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on, informs, inspires, supports, educates, encourages or motivates you. Take your time and scroll all the way down; there is a lot here:
Art:
Drawing Texture on Water with Marker
Henrik Simonsen demonstrating a wash of color in oil
Brian Rutenberg: Learn Your Materials
Pleasure as a creative strategy
Spirituality:
What’s the biggest mistake Christians make?
Ideas:
Three questions to ask next time you meet somebody
How We Built our Sunken Greenhouse
Three ways to find the right people and be a better friend
Questions to go deeper with your partner
The Ingratitude of Barren Lives
Opt out of AI using your instagram photos
(AI) Living presidents sing together
Food:
Poetry:
Concerns:
EPA just approved two new cancer-causing pesticides for your food
T H A A A A N N N N K you, Wonderful Giving Sharing Creative Loving Amazing Polly!
There is so much here — so much beauty to look at and so much to read — and it is worth savoring with no need to rush. It is only recently that I’ve heard about Hilma af Klint, and I plan on reading a lot more about her fascinating journey. She was no doubt a visionary. The beautiful paintings that you have posted are inspiring, and I really appreciate you posting mine.