Lynn Bridge Glencliff Art Studio

Cocoon

After a break from writing blogs, posting pictures on flickr, and updating my website, I am coming back to life- internet public life, that is.  I have spent the last six weeks or so in a little cocoon, finding a better focus for making art.  This also involves deciding what to

Cranky!

Last September, when I started this blog, one of the first comments was from an Englishman who works as a chef.  He went by the somewhat-unpronounceable ‘Kseverny’, but his given name turns out to be Richard North.  According to his WordPress blog, The Arts Webshow,

The Reality of Cats

I’ve also been studying my cats with my camera. Some hate it and some tolerate it.  I just keep working with my models until the job is done! Reverie Photograph copyright by Lynn Bridge Enlightenment Photograph copyright by Lynn Bridge Which came first:  the reverie or the

Reality Check

The Ties That Bind 4 Photograph copyright by Lynn Bridge I have been making photos lately. Lots of photos.  Hundreds, even a thousand photos. Capturing images of the world nearby is so satisfying with my little off-the-shelf pocket digital camera.  I can be as dumb as I want, or

Stars and Stripes

Photograph copyright by Lynn Bridge Photograph copyright by Lynn Bridge Photograph copyright by Lynn Bridge In memory of all the U. S. service members who have died in action.

Collaboration

Collaboration photograph copyright by Lynn Bridge Weeks ago I promised to review Twyla Tharp’s book, The Collaborative Habit; Life Lessons for Working Together, so I will make good on that now. This book has something in common with her previous book, The Creative Habit,

80% of 100%

Watercolor sketch of Carver Museum’s 100% Exhibit opening 2010 Image copyright by Lynn Bridge Time is almost up!  The annual George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center‘s ‘100% Art Exhibit’ and silent auction ends at 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 29th.

Pants for Jesus

As an addendum to “Big Pants“, here is what John and Suzi Parker have done with some of the XXXXXXL surgical pants that were delivered to a hospital near Port-au-Prince, where there are NO XXXXXXL people: “A follow up to the problem of what to do with 12,000

Elegy for a Puzzle Piece

Too quick with the wash You were overlooked And allowed to soak and spin and drain. I found your decomposed body Clinging to my green shirt Your face still shiny, but now creased- Your body, a gray mass of pulp. The pin which held you safely, Still fast to my collar, Prevented

A Page from My Studio Diary

Some tasks seem harder than they should be! What parts of your job are challenging? What are some of the things no one mentioned to you at your interview? What do you wish you had learned in school?