While many post photos of their artwork on flickr, you may want to consider an alternative space, designed especially for artists: sketchbooks.orgThis is a very cool website where you can view other artist's sketchbooks, create your own, get inspirational quotes or even create an online drawing through their sketchpad interface. It's a great website that is free . . . .

Somehow this post disappeared so I'm reposting it! Part of the world wide moleskine journal exhibition. . .More links on the Detour exhibit, which originated in London (I think) is now in NYC through the end of June. It features the work of several artists all working in the moleskine journals. There are many you-tube videos of the work and a couple of very cool websites. Check them out! Here

If you're suffering from a creative block and need something quick and fun to inspire you, try the National Gallery of the Arts Collage Machine. You need to have Shockwave installed but they have great instructions on doing this for both MacIntosh and PC's. Here's a little collage that I just did:Here's a screen shot of the collage machine with my collage still up:Have fun and have a great

we visited the striking glass sculptures of Dale Chihuly in the lush green setting of Phipps Conservatory. This exhibit of more than 20 glass installations was awe-inspiring. The pictures shown were taken with the camera in my cell phone (I forgot to take my "real" digital camera. I was amazed at just how fabulous the photos were!)We had to remind ourselves to look up since many of the