mark b hill

i'm pretty sure i have not posted this one. mark has a blog and offered to send an envelope to anyone who requested one. so i did. now i owe him one. but, i'm obsessing over what he would like.

http://www.markbhillart.com/blog.html

above is the link to his website. he last posted on mar 13th, so he is not an every-day-er.

i noticed he mentioned on mar 6th that he was doing some artwork that was an *homage* and then in the post right below, he called a design *recycled.*  homage-recycled-stealworthy. all very popular ways to make art. so, don't worry if you don't have any original ideas...just choose something that you like and do a variation. another expression that all my scribe friends will remember, if they ever took a class with peter...steal and conceal. he would walk around the class and point to student work and say, "oh, i will be stealing that idea later." that's part of the fun of classes....gathering ideas from each other.

mark also mentioned that after a 5 year break from doing art fairs, he is going to do an art fair in des moines in june. i suppose i should drop in and say hi. and don't miss the photo he posted of himself - when he was a youngster, engrossed in art. it is a-dor-a-ble. on the [about] page.

one last thing....he is self taught....so, i'm right again. classes are nice but not essential....if you are motivated, you can learn a lot on your own.

and...he's from wisconsin... :-)