#artistic thinking

This week I realized there are many cardboard box color variations. In my studio alone I count 10 different colors of brown box material. So the phrase “Thinking Outside The Box” has been on my mind and I’ve begun a new 8 inch wooden cube sculpture by painting it to look like a cardboard box. In the photo below my in progress sculpture is in the background and in the foreground is a box I’m using…

I’ve been reading a book titled “Become America” by Eric Liu. In it Liu writes “To be a citizen is to be an artist…. ” Liu included examples of people imaging things like “why is this not a park?” and “How could these old folks and these little kids be making something together?”.

That got me thinking of how citizenship is an act of imagination. Governments, businesses – and of course artists –…

Shelby, Arts Administration, shares an interesting article about how to see things in an artistic way in "The Eyes of an Artist"

Hello everyone!

To my fellow classmates, I hope you all did fantastic on your finals!

This week I read an intriguing article from Artsy.net titled How to Train Your Eyes to See like an Artist by Ingrid Christensen.

In this article, Ingrid suggests that artists see the world differently than non-artists. Personally, I can see the validity in this assumption. Artists look at things with a more…

crossword puzzle books in art

Here’s a new painting in my “reading and books in art” series.  I confess that I love printed dictionaries, thesaurus’s and puzzle/game related books. In my art studio resource shelves I have 8 dictionaries, 3 thesaurus’s and 5 puzzle/game related books. Art idea gold-mines in my opinion. Naturally a Boston Terrier would consult one of these books…

“The Arf Thesaurus” by Clancy – 16 x 20 inches –…

from my Various Cat Sketchbook

I’ve just finished making an ebook – 34 pages derived from my hand drawn, hand written, sketchbook on the topic of cats. It’s titled “Various Cat Sketches by Sue Clancy” – and can be found hereon my Art Ebook Shop page.  Warts, scribbles, mistakes and all have been included – so you can see how my mind works – and for your amusement. I worked in ink, watercolor and gouache. In this post are a few…