Hello Peoples!

YouTube needs a Visual Arts category!

 +Merrill Kazanjian has a thread going about how YouTube needs a visual arts category. How many of you have uploaded a video of your art, or searched for something art related only to be surprised that after all this time, YouTube STILL does NOT have a visual arts category?!? The photo is a screen shot of my latest art journal video situated nicely among How To Style your nails or brighten your jeans.

Let YouTube know that it’s time for Visual Arts category. Join the discussion here:http://bit.ly/x0Flxk

Last week in The Classroom the question was asked about the resurrection of painting class.  The short answer is, “Not so much.”  The longer, more relevant answer is, “That too.”  (evil grin)  You may have noticed that I have quit referring to the classes as Drawing Class or Painting Class and have started calling it simply The Classroom.  What that means is the classes are combined.  Painting for me is primarily drawing with paint.  That’s one of the reasons I had difficulty keeping interest in a separate class.  What we will do from here forward is insert painting instruction as it applies to the lesson of the week.  For instance, this week we’re continuing our topic of composition, but this time it will center around pallet choices.  Should help keep each week’s class fresh and lively.

We need topics and interviewees for Midnight at Oasis.  The topics can be any subject: politics, religion, sex, environment.  The only requirement is that they have to be related back to creativity.  For instance: how have world economic pressures affected your ability to find time to art?  I’ve started a Facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/groups/382982991728276/ so go join up and suggest topics.  We’ll set up a poll to vote and interview people over Skype.

If you would like to help with funding Oasis Studios & Gallery, you can go to artisticbiker.com and look for the DONATE button on the right side column and donate what you can.  If you can’t do that, please share this newsletter with everyone you know to help get the word out.  That helps more than you know.  Or better yet, Click Here to Join! artisticbiker.com/membership and help promote the arts in rural Oklahoma.

If you have any announcements you would like made in the newsletter or tweeted about incessantly, drop me a line and I’ll toot your horn for ya.  ;)  There were no announcements this week.

I’m going to keep the same password for a while so the password is: arting

The Classroom site is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oasisgalleryok

This week in The Classroom: Pallet selection: The warm and cool of it.

The past classes are moving into the Pay-per-view side of ustream and on artisticbiker.com as well. $2 lets you view them online at Ustream, $5 lets you download them at artisticbiker.com, and a $10/month membership gets you unlimited downloads from the site.

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This week’s tip is actually a quote from Bertrand Russell: