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Beautiful Beginnings

Beautiful Beginnings Written by Billie J. Colson Blog # 1 Comparison After going and enjoying an art show and being impressed with the...

Art For Mental Health's Sake, Not Your Couch.

Art: For Mental Health’s Sake, Not To Match Your Couch! Written by Rae Ann M. Garrett Art is an essential part of our lives. Art contains...

Creativity strikes

Why do we wait for inspiration before we create? I love to paint when it’s cloudy. The problem with that here in Northern Colorado, it’s...

Beautiful Beginnings

Beautiful Beginnings Written by Billie J. Colson Blog # 1 Comparison After going and enjoying an art show and being impressed with the...

Art For Mental Health's Sake, Not Your Couch.

Art: For Mental Health’s Sake, Not To Match Your Couch! Written by Rae Ann M. Garrett Art is an essential part of our lives. Art contains...

Creativity strikes

Why do we wait for inspiration before we create? I love to paint when it’s cloudy. The problem with that here in Northern Colorado, it’s...

Everyone loves Pie!

Don’t you just love going to a quaint small town, with cute shops? Did you know we have such a place in downtown Loveland? We have...

Don’t you just love interacting with people in person?

Downtown Loveland just had our Sweetheart Festival last weekend. There were local vendors, kids activities, photo op booths created by...

Is art a good gift?

Is art a good gift? If you know someone’s taste, much like buying perfume or cologne it is. The nice thing about art is that typically...

Creating feels better than other things I do.

Most of the things I do get undone. I wash clothes, they get dirty again. I clean house, and before too long, it’s cluttered and needs...

Missing the old days

Remember the old days when we didn’t try to cram so much into our days? We talked in person or on the phone with ones we loved. We had...

It's Never too Late to become what you've been.

So many of the artists I meet are “Emerging Artists”. They are not the young under 30 but the Baby Boomer generation. They had to put...

Meet the Artists and hear the inspiration behind their work.

Loveland Studio Tour I love fall, it’s my favorite time of year. That’s why we have the Loveland Art Studio Tour in the fall. It’s a...