Inspire Me Inspirations from a husband and wife design team.

I came across the blog Dear Ada a while back. I can't even remember what there had piqued my interest because every time I go back, she has posted something beautiful.

Oh, wait -- here it is: the work of Ulrich Goerlich, about which she says, "What a great way to think about color, in isolation, which helps the eye to see the color in all the places it shows up in the photograph." I saw this on the eve of one of my first watercolor classes, and it struck me.

Bay Area artist Jen Garrido's layered paintings.

Martha Rosler, "Red Stripe Kitchen," 1962-1972, photomontage.

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Imagine spending a long weekend in September in leafy New Hampshire attending a series of art workshops hosted by a group of women fairly bursting with creative energy, online and off?

I can imagine it, and at a three-hour drive from my house, I can almost see it.

via Christine

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This great self-portrait was done in tempera (!) by Connie Jimenez, as seen at Portait Party.

Rama Hughes, Portrait Party proprietor and illustrator extraordinaire, says of the site:

when i was younger, my family and i used to have portrait parties. we would congregate in the living room every few months and turn our attention from person to person, drawing everyone in the room. it was such a pleasure and so normal in my life that trading portraits became a regular event when i left for college, when i moved to new towns, when i met new friends or favorite artists. tommy kane suggested that it would make a good website. so, that's what this is... AND YOU'RE INVITED!