A Scholarly Skater
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What is the Significance of Gargoyles and Grotesques?
In the final part of Field Guide to Gargoyles, we’ll explore the most complex topic of all – the significance and meaning of gargoyles and grotesques.
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How to Have a Great Museum Visit
It’s great to look at art online, but nothing beats seeing it up close at a museum. For the best possible museum-going experience, plan ahead. Here are some things to keep in mind.
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What Do Gargoyles and Grotesques Look Like?
Part four of Field Guide to Gargoyles concerns gargoyles’ and grotesques’ weird and wonderful appearances. They can have so many different looks.
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How to Look: Tips for Connecting with Art
Try these tips, techniques, and challenges to help you connect with art at museum, galleries, and other places to see art in person.
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Where Can You Find Gargoyles?
In part three of Field Guide to Gargoyles, you will learn about the varied buildings that gargoyles and grotesques tend to inhabit, both then and now.
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Where and When Did Gargoyles Come From?
Find out about gargoyles’ ancient but murky historical origins and usage around the world in part two of Field Guide to Gargoyles.
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Part 1: What is a Gargoyle?
I love gargoyles, and maybe you do too. But do you know exactly the term actually means? Learn this important fact in part one of Field Guide to Gargoyles.
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Historic Places Photo Gallery
I love old places, and I try to visit them wherever I go. This gallery shows some of the historic places I’ve visited recently. If you like my photos, you might also be interested in my other posts on the subject. What beautiful old places are there where you live? Send me some pictures so…
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Skating Through Time on a Snow Day
Snow day! Who doesn’t love those words? Here in the northeastern United States, we are currently having a nice snow day, which makes it seem like a perfect time to do the second part of the winter paintings series I started around Christmas time. While part one was about winter landscapes, part two is about ice skating paintings!…
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My Experience Seeing a Live Painting Demonstration
Last Sunday afternoon (January 29th), I had the opportunity to see a live painting demonstration. This was exciting because I had never before watched a painting be made right in front of me. I met Gerard Amsellem, one of the two artists involved, at a studio tour event last fall. He and his friend/frequent collaborator Mikel Frank reached…
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Kip’s Castle – My Visit to a New Jersey Mansion
Updated with news photos from my Christmas 2017 visit to Kip’s Castle. Click on the photo gallery below! I recently took some time to visit a local landmark – Kip’s Castle in Verona, New Jersey. The former home of textile industrialist Frederic Ellsworth Kip and his family, Kip’s Castle is a sprawling stone mansion at the very top…
