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April 15, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 8 Comments

Artist Materials From the Land

Llano Slider

As most of you know I’ve begun a new series of paintings I’m calling The Micaceous Series. A reader of the blog, Grace Kane, calls them my earth paintings and she is so right. I am making them with earth and straw, the recipe for adobe. The longer I live here on this land, the […]

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March 4, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel Leave a Comment

A Great Art Project, Part 2

Back to the studio

Because it can be somewhat intimidating buying your first art supplies when you begin to paint (not to mention overwhelming, confusing and expensive), I offer here a list of materials to get you started (this is for acrylic, although most of these colors are available in oils and watercolor as well). I recommend the following […]

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March 3, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 18 Comments

A Great Art Project, Part 1

If you’re one of my students reading this right now I know you’ll chuckle to see me writing any kind of “how to” piece on making art. That’s because over all my years of teaching I have discouraged my students from reading or even looking at “how to paint” pieces. My reason for this is […]

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February 25, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 7 Comments

Art Matters: Alvaro Cardona-Hine Answers Why is Art Important?

alvaro in gallery

From the very beginning, whenever man has found a moment he doesn’t have to devote to survival, he looks around, gauges the distance, assesses the world, does this against himself, against his temporal weakness. A woman in a cave, after cooking the leg of a bear for her family, might have taken a piece of […]

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February 24, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 3 Comments

Craig Scogin On Why Art Is Important

Artist Craig Scogin

My friend, photographer Craig Scogin (previous posts Not Really New… Not Really Mexico and Craig Scogin On What Is Art?), offers his views on why art is important. All photographs in today’s post were shot by Craig. I have been asked why art is important. I had written about history and culture, healing and humanity, […]

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February 22, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 10 Comments

Why Is Art Important?

Why is art important? As I’ve pondered this question, I’ve realized there is no way I can depersonalize my answer. I honestly can’t say why art is important to another but I can express my experience. I would love to get your thoughts on the subject and, as with the earlier question about what art […]

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February 15, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 8 Comments

Are You Ready to Make Art?

Re-Birthday

Another important aspect of art is new people coming to it. Think about this: There would be no art, eventually, unless people who have not made it before step up and learn how to make their own personal expressions and then do it. In this way artwork continues to be born and refreshed generation after […]

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About High Road Artist IMG 9461 150x150I am Jeane George Weigel, a working artist living in the mountains of northern New Mexico, and I do not think you and I are so different.

Every single one of us longs to know what we ache for, to “follow our bliss” as Joseph Campbell famously put it. You may find yours as an artist, a writer, or a teacher. But I am convinced we all yearn to live what is in our hearts. Some of us spend a lifetime discovering what that is. Some never find it.

This blog is about a journey of self-discovery, yours and mine. I write about the experience of living an artist’s life and share musings and photos as this living experiment unfolds. It is my hope you’ll join in the conversation by writing to me about your lives and I dearly hope something, here, will inspire you.

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