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#scribesandmakers I would LOVE to live in an artists community. Especially if said community was walkable, had a nice corner grocery, and a lovely central park where once a week, everyone came together to make a nice meal.
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On Sunday the 27th of April, the legendary Strange Seawolf, author of Herald Petrel, will be our featured creator. Find more info on their profile, and please check out this interview with @Tattooed_mummy tattooedmummy.co.uk/2024/08/?m… We invite you to join us in asking questions on the 27th by tagging @strangeseawolf (type @ to tag, this link won't copy over) along with #ScribesAndMakers and #TTMD They enjoy 'What if..." sorts of questions more than irl questions.

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I see myself as an outlier. I struggle with community, often sacrificing communication & connection for individual expression. When SAM asked about meaningful songs rather than describing moving lyrics I spoke about lines in songs I had repurposed for my personal mottos. I found another. In American Pie, Don McLean sings, “Do you believe in rock & roll…”
I ask "Do you believe in right & wrong" — I sorta don't.

dotart.blog/humanissome/do-you…

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14 April: Would you enjoy living in a creative village/house/shared accommodation?

I believe that I would. I may try to experience a residency or retreat some day. Or I imagine hosting my own. These could be for painting or writing. And, incidentally, the story I'm dreaming up requires world building. I'm considering varying degrees of communal living being the norm. Sharing vehicles, kitchens & pantries, tools, etc., helps conserve resources & build community.

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#ScribesAndMakers 13. Who are the masters of your art or craft to you? Why?

There are too many. I'm just going to go with a few that inspire me the most, in no particular order:

Ansel Adams because where would black and white landscape photography be without him?

Henri Cartier-Bresson because he did such great street photography.

Beth Moon because her large-scale tree photographs are amazing.

Rinko Kawauchi because she has a way of making ordinary, mundane scenes seem extraordinary and very special.

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13 April: Who are the masters of your art or craft to you? Why?

Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Miró, Cy Twombly, Mark Rothko, Jean-Michel Basquiat are favorite painters who influence me. But I'm a super weirdo in terms of not fixating on talent or craft. I like the work by these artists. I like my work. I don't see it in terms of ranking or mastery. I see it as personal preference. I feel emotion in those artists' work. I think skill in #AbstractArt is taste, daring, emotion.

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12 April SAM: Self Promotion Day

What I've done lately is online housekeeping, most recently starting 3 newsletters differentiated by frequency:
paper.wf/seasonalrob/spring-20…
[seasonal]paper.wf/rmiddleton/
[monthly]dotart.blog/humanissome/

[weekly]& 2 new web addresses:
rartsy.com/ [painting gallery]
humanissome.org/ [currently a landing site embedding my most updated content; eventual HQ for my thoughts on spirituality & community]

Building new things...

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Humanissome.org

Humanissome philosophy of artist R Middleton.
Humanissome by RMiddleton
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I've taken a couple days off answering #ScribesAndMakers prompts because I had nothing to say about book covers nor spreadsheets.
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#ScribesAndMakers Apr 11. Do you use spreadsheets to help in your process? If so, how do you use them, and what makes them better than other tools?

I use them mainly to keep track of my characters. For example, I had 13 coven witches, all integral to the story, in my book Coven. There was no way I could keep a handle on their primary magick, their roles, their elements, etc., if I hadn't.

#WritingCommunity #bookstodon #WritingPrompts #lesfic #sapphicbooks #butchfemme

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#ScribesAndMakers 10, Book cover you like.

This is probably my favourite cover of all time. It contains so many visual puns and the typography evokes the era and it's stylish and minimalistic. God I wish I'd made this cover. Anyway the book is also excellent.

Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature by Jordan S. Carroll. It's a very simple cover in black, white, and red, but it contains multiple visual puns, from the clit-like flourish in the O to an image that might be a pen, might be a book, might be boobs, or might be a butt.
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9 April: Are/were you taking courses for your creative activities?

I felt I had to have academic permission to do "frivolous" art. In a middle school weekly activities period I fell in love with painting. But in high school I chose language & science electives for resume building. Halfway through college I allowed myself to sign up for painting again—been doing it since. Beyond the initial permission structure I learned little in classes. My style is more emotion than skill.

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8 April: Share a song lyric that resonates with you.

A line from They Might Be Giants' XTC vs Adam Ant repeats, “There is no right or wrong,” helps me accept human fallibility.

The Scissor Sisters singing, "Everybody Wants The Same Thing," helps me accept the frustrations of large group dynamics.

As an atheistic humanist I have no hymns. These song snippets help guide me & the full lyrics don't matter.

More songs, video links, further thoughts: dotart.blog/rmiddleton/resonan…

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5 Apr: How do you decide on price for selling art?

It's been a journey. I multiply the dimensions in inches to give me a gauge of "full retail price"—or as I like to call it, "amount that would enable me to make a living." 50% of that is "wholesale" price. I no longer list on any sales sites, only do transactions personally, because I like to offer sliding scale. Buyers choose donation amount & I give a gift in return based on suggested price range.

Rartsy.com

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RMiddletonArt abstract paintings clearance sale

Opportunity to purchase abstract paintings directly from the artist Rob Middleton (30-year working abstract painter) before he moves
R Middleton
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2 April: What do you want to work on this month?

Life
Try new pain doctor. Prepare to move. Keep in touch with folks. Go see fireflies (45 minutes away & only this month).

Visual art
Continue to inventory paintings & add listings to moving sale page at Rartsy.com

Words
I'm not sure yet if I'll be able to write this month so I at least plan to stream. I talk about anything & work out ideas when I stream, often related to writing projects.

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RMiddletonArt abstract paintings clearance sale

Opportunity to purchase abstract paintings directly from the artist Rob Middleton (30-year working abstract painter) before he moves
R Middleton
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29 March: What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavor this month?

Sleeping all day & skipping this question? 🙃

Seriously when I saw this question before going to sleep last night/early this morning East Coast US time, I felt like I didn't have an answer. As happened previously with this group I let the prompt prompt me to more than a post, to action. I accelerated work on a painting sale gallery:

humanissome.neocities.org/Pain…

(New URL & more art to come.)

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RMiddletonArt abstract paintings clearance sale

Opportunity to purchase abstract paintings directly from the artist Rob Middleton (30-year working abstract painter) before he moves
R Middleton
#scribesandmakers

Every so often, a response to a writing prompt goes too long for me to feel comfortable posting it directly on Mastodon. Today's ScribesAndMakers prompt is one of those. Please check out Graffiti: Art and Praxis.

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#ScribesAndMakers 20 March: Do you like graffiti? Do you have an example? Yes.

I love the word.

See @RadicalGraffiti

In summer 1989 in alpine Zermatt, Switzerland, I was surprised to see "Fuck The World" on a side street. The message seemed incongruous to that place & time. I appreciated that it was on a temporary wooden fence enclosing construction. That trip I also learned to love layers of colorful notices pasted all over walls.

Graffiti aesthetic appears in my #Rart paintings.

Center detail of abstract expressionist painting titled Humanism Blue. At top center I used a thick red marker to make a shape like a partial Christmas tree, a backwards 3, or a stylized capital "E." Marker adds a temporary aesthetic to a painting. Several centimeters below the mark described above is a similar color in paint. The paint remains vivid while the maker fades. I enjoy creating work that changes over time after I've walked away from it.
Abstract expressionist painting titled "Tag" for the red marker scribbles that resemble graffiti signature tags in my mind. I can also get the feel of a multicolored plaster wall when I look at some parts of this painting. Besides the fading & covered over red marker tags, this painting features slate blue, bright blues, yellow, peach, light pistachio green, grey & black, & more, with thick white oil paint blending many colors together.
Detail of another abstract expressionist painting that includes red (and green and blue) marker. White paint interacts with the marker to change the red to pink. I love experimenting with materials & producing instability in my work. A fellow artist once expressed shock that my methods are "not archival," meaning the finished work is not stable, fixed in appearance. I say that choices made by me continue to change the painting even after I stop touching it. I think that's bad ass. (At the bottom of this painting there's a strong suggestion of an image that often appears in graffiti. If you see it I'm sure you won't believe me when I say that I produced that shape entirely unintentionally by making lines!) Like so much of my work, this painting detail includes so many colors and shapes without much pattern... very difficult to describe in words, made to escape language.
Detail of an abstract painting mostly in muted purple grey, with green, rose, and bright peach brush marks scattered on the top layer. In the center on top of a peach brush mark written in black sharpie: ANYTHING.
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#ScribesAndMakers 19 March: At what age did you start creating? All kids create. I'm lucky to have 2 "first paintings," from middle school & college, both of which I like a lot.

18: What would your best creative life look like if you stretch beyond realistic, but still keep it plausible?
Possible dreams include a home studio in Mexico, large enough to hold workshops for local & visiting artists; teaching & showing when I travel to my sister's & to friends; devoting months each year to writing.

My first painting from early adolescence, for a middle school activities period. Yellow, red, orange, and purple flowers; leaves and stems in dark and light green; a few blobs in blue, white, brown, light blue represent flower pots. The overall effect is a horizontal rectangle of edge to edge bright color. It's acrylic paint on card stock paper. I hope I still have it somewhere; at least I have the photo.
My first painting as an adult / late adolescent. What started as a representational painting of 2 shells became an abstract expression of feelings. Created for my first college painting class with limited colors: white, dark blue, and brown. The top-left (of this 1:1.4 rectangle) is a wavy white blob with dark blue and blue-grey added for shading. The greater part of the painting (on masonite board) is vaguely a bisected ovoid shape in light and dark brown, with accent marks in dark blue, dark brown, and white. One of the markings at upper-center-right resembles a closed eye. Very dark blue, almost black, forms an irregular border at the right side, curving to the bottom, going off the plane and picking up again a small bit at the bottom-left. A classmate remarked that this painting elicited strong, unsettling feelings in her. That excited me to the possibilities of communicating through abstract art.
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