 What to do with left over paint………? I decided to use this extra paint, left over from another project, to have a little fun with mark making. Sometimes it can be fun simply to make marks and make them as fast as you can. Don’t be concerned with the final product of the piece. Just paint and then let your eye travel through the marks. Then locate all the marks that feel new. You can even use photography to frame the most interesting sections. It’s a great way to free your hands, and it can be a little like treasure hunting!
*Originally published on Tumblr 2013.
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 Know what is a lot of fun? Coloring in graph paper! Something I have always loved to do! There is something so meditative about the process. You can really get lost filling in each square, bringing you into a state of complete calm and relaxation. And what a great challenge to give yourself, to create a scene or image by filling in all the squares on your choice of graph paper. There are yellow and pink graph papers and even extra-large squared graph paper. Working creatively inside the box could stretch the imagination more than working outside of the box.
*Originally published on Tumblr 2013 A Brief Fall Poem
The winds bustling and trees are hustling to lose their Autumn leaves, The lines are drawn and the pigskin’s on as we near Winter’s reprieve. Ready the fires, hot chocolates, and ciders, all in the name of staying warm. ~Tabatha Lendquvist, 2012  It’s a drawing! It’s a 3D drawing! I was trying to decide how to combine two successive pages in my sketchbook to make one drawing, but not in an obvious way. As I was flipping and rotating the book around….. There! See it! The pages can be in a horizontal and/or vertical plane. Yes, YES! Now bring them together…. Optical illusion or smart art?
Originally published on Tumblr 2013
One never knows when a sketchbook will become a must. NEVER! While on the way home from teaching (I teach art at a military academy four hours from my home.), I found myself driving through a winter storm. The storm began to pass, the sun came out, and all the snow started falling from the trees on the side of the interstate……. And then wham! Stuck in standstill traffic on 65 for nearly 4 ½ hours. Thank goodness I keep a drawing pencil and sketchbook in my car, and what a perfect way to decompress after a bit of educating. :0) One of the other creative outlets initiated by such a pile up was a string of random snow men left for our pleasure by other stranded motorists. I was left wondering what other sorts of traffic jam creative hijinks are afoot in day to day traffic jams, hmmmm…….
*Orignially published on Tumblr 2013
I would be lying if I said I was not guilty of this bibliophile sacrilege. I simply like my books to lie flat. So it was no hard task to... CRACK THE SPINE  As an artist we have to keep our hands and minds moving, which is hard when pregnant and on bed rest. So I am starting a portable studio, not just a sketchbook. Not just a place of record, but to collaborate and conversate. I have had Keri Smith's texts, "Wreck This Journal", "This Is Not A Book", "Finish This Book", "The Pocket Scavenger", "Mess: The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes", and "How To Be An Explorer of The World" for.... well longer than I'm willing to admit!
And so here we begin with... BRING THIS BOOK IN THE SHOWER WITH YOU I have to say I LOVE the way the pages turned out, with the creases and ripples. They are visually stunning. *Originally published on Wordpress January 17, 2017  I keep trying to decide where this image may be taking me. It was drawn from the subconscious mind, without a visual reference. I have resigned to the fact that perhaps she is trying to tell me to just enjoy the journey.
She needs a name… *Originally published on Wordpress January 17, 2017
It has been years since I painted something that was completely non-representational. However I am a lover of mark-making. I enjoy experimenting and discovering the vast possibilities for making a mark. These paintings are a study of possibility. What has been made possible through experimentation.  *Originally published on Wordpress January 17, 2017
CAITLIN MCCORMACK
It is two parts exciting and three parts nightmare managing social media as an artist. Exciting to have your work and process out in the world inspiring others and hopefully engaging other artists, or art lovers, but as an artist the additional energy and time needed to create and maintain such accounts after making and documenting your work can take us to our limit. Everyone has their own recipe for social media management success, but it doesn’t change the simple fact that it is one more item on the list of To-Do’s. Last year I attended more than one workshop that addressed social media for artists. I, myself, have signed up for and tried them all, almost… as it seems that there is one more social media app lurking around the corner, promising ultimate exposure and immediate access to “your” public.
After attending the workshops and recovering from all the “exposure”, I have gained a bit of advice and personal insight. I went in deep… here is what I have learned from my adventures in social media. They may appear seemingly obvious, but after taking a vacation from our alternate, web-based reality and returning with fresh eyes, I wonder how many of us are actually using these simple rules as a structure for crafting our social media presence. How often are we overlooking these important suggestions?
What I have found most useful is to decide what I want to showcase then find the social media platform that suits the content. Each platform then has its own specific “identity”, purpose, or function. Facebook is for Newsworthy information; events, finished products, some production information, personal milestones and achievements, content appropriate for sharing from other Facebook posts from related businesses and organizations, etc. Keep it professional and on topic. Twitter… I can’t say that I was a fan, as most users do not Twitter responsibly. It is too likely that your posts and even you will get easily lost and carried away in the current that is a Twitter feed. Others enjoy it, you may. Instagram is delightful. This is where I share work in progress, “in the studio” snippets, me doing what I do. This also includes the unfinished, the rough around the edges, the stuff without a place; including, what I do outside the studio that relates to my art-making, such as learning and teaching. It is a wonderful place to share your process. Remember to document as much as you can! Wordpress as a blog platfrom is what I have found to be the most comprehensive and professional. I have tried Blogger, Tumblr, Weebly, and Wordpress. The blog should be personal, insightful, introspective... This is the place to connect to your audience outside of the professional scope of being an artist, and I consider it a virtual/visual journal. It is a collection of personal thoughts, points of interest, an online document of inspiration, experimentation, and other musings; albeit digital and publicly available. This is for letting your audience into the mind of the maker, a place to share all the beautiful about art-making that happens behind the scenes. What I also enjoy about Wordpress is the ability to link accounts like Instagram, and your images appear in the sidebar of your Wordpress site with no extra coding skills or unneeded headaches. After numerous trials, reinventions, and relaunches of both my studio and artistic image, I can leave you with these suggestions: o Stay uniquely you! Don’t worry about adopting a bigger than life, big business online personality. You won’t be able to maintain it. We, as humans, evolve. Let you shine and your business will evolve with you. o Use social media accounts responsibly, your audience will thank you and your sanity will remain intact. You are one person, and more than likely not in a place to hire someone to Tweet their tits off all day long. Stick to what’s important and what truly relates to your art and practice, and your audience won’t feel burdened just trying to keep up while they desperately attempt to not miss anything. o Keep consistent and fresh. Provide the same character of content, but introduce new things along the way. Don’t feel obligated to keep anything around either. Take it for a spin, if it isn’t working don’t buy it. And if anything… just keep working, sometimes persistence is the only thing that determines success or failure. Tabatha Jarmulowicz, Artist/Owner Lendquvist Studio *Originally published on Wordpress June 6, 2017 "Amateurism is an emptiness and I accept it because it has no preconceived ideas or rules to be applied. This is for me a most welcome situation and I like to keep my students amateurs and dilenttantes."
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AuthorTabatha Lendquvist-Grace works from her private studio located in Walker County, AL. She is an Interdisciplinary artist working across and in various mediums to include painting, bookmaking, and poetics. She taught Design I at the University of North Alabama and taught Drawing Foundations as an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Tabatha has been involved in a number of community arts projects with At-Risk youth and has experience teaching art to youth and adults at various private and public schools, institutions, and art organizations. She earned a BA in Studio Art from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. ArchivesCategories |
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