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I was asked to sell some old Heisey glass for a friend of mine this last week.
Being that where I live is also home to the birthplace and national Heisey Museum, I am sure she will get her money’s worth out of it.
But as I was looking at these very beautiful works, I wondered if my definition of art extended to that which was mass produced?
Glass artists, for awhile now remain one of the only areas where mass production of a design is acceptable and the works are still being considered art.
With paintings, mainly it is the originals that …read more

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So after almost a week living in Thornville, OH I finally noticed a big sign by the highway that told me about the “Backwoods Fest” which advertised “arts, crafts, food and music” as being the main attractions.
Naturally curious, I came home and hit Google with those search terms and what I found surprised me.

This is a big deal around here. Artist from all over Ohio come here to show their work and participate.
This year it will be going on for three days for the first time.
September 14,15, & 16th.
I guess I will be there, somewhere… Maybe I’ll try …read more

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Hey all, sorry to be slow on responding to comments lately. I think I got everything approved for the contest, but just letting you all know what’s up.
We are in the process of moving and unpacking… for the next week or two, I think I am going to be visiting the local library quite a bit for the wifi.

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I spent a few minutes putting this video podcast together and failed to recognize that the audio didn’t quite encode correctly, so here is my failed attempt at a video podcast. I only realized this error after it was uploaded and ready to post.

Since we are getting ready to move, it might be a little while before I can reencode it and get it up correctly.

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I decided that I needed to have a little fun… and make a post that completely… screwed with the mind a little.

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We’ve been repainting a few of the sunday school rooms at the church lately, and it came to me that so much of the time we take certain things for granted.
How a room is painted, the detail given to painting around all the trim work, etc.
Now we didn’t do anything fancy with murals or anything, but just gave it a basic white paint coat.
And today as I sit here with dried white paint still all over my fingers, I am satisfied with the basics, the simplicity of white.
I guess I am going through “a phase” to get back to …read more

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I’ve been known to not think things through all the way before I do them. In this, I guess I am a bit impulsive. I’ll put together an entire idea in my head, then act on it… then come back in the morning when I am wide awake and realize how much I didn’t think through the plan.
I recently brainstormed an idea for a art gallery site where everyone could upload their paintings to a their own flickr accounts and I would just aggregate them all to one blog automatically effectively creating one site that is updated …read more

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It’s hard sometimes to know where all the links are coming from. So I decided I should make this simple. If you are linking to Artist Hideout somewhere on your site, let me know in the comments below.
Also, I am running a guest post contest. I’d love to have a few more people participate. The winner gets a prize of $50 (or more).

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