Where last weekend and last week were completely artistic weeks this week has not been. My mind is set on the idea that when people visit it's SUPPOSED to be on the weekend not Monday nights! So when my grandmother and father came back through to crash on my couch my mind thought "weekend!" Then I had to slog through a whole week at the DayJob. Every Spring we schedule our days off at the DayJob. Instead of a single full week I had scheduled several random long weekends, and thankfully for me, this Friday is one of the days I'd scheduled off. My DayJob schedule is weird this week too, but thankfully today marks the start of my long weekend. Boy am I thankful!

This weekend is full of good art stuff too which makes it even better. First off, I'm being interviewed on Artistic Biker's UStream tonight, I go on air around 9PM Eastern Time. If you HAVEN'T tuned into the broadcast before you are missing out, Jonathan puts on an art show. It's not about technique as it is a 2 hour romp through his art journaling journey. He talks, his daughter makes art with him ( I love this, she's cute as a button and she's making art.) and people are chatting about art. He'll tell you the type of technique he's working int, where he got the idea and then as he works talks about the art. It is a great UStream and it happens EVERY Thursday night (you know unless kids are being born.) and it worth every minute you spend watching it. 

Saturday the 3rd Connie of DirtyFootPrints-studio.com is posting an interview on DirtyFootprints-Studio.com it's about art journaling and how I got into it and all that fun stuff. Check it out on the 3rd.

I got one of the best compliments I've ever gotten from friend and fellow artist Jane McDonald, who compared my recent portrait work to that of Alice Neel. If you have known me for any period of time you will  know that Alice Neel is a huge influence, inspiration and hero of mine. So the compliment is very meaningful to me and made my day. 

What I love about all these artists is that our art is so diverse and so different from one another and all great in their very own way. (Jane should post more of her art) I love browsing through all of the flickr streams, twitters and blogs of these people. I get the most inspiration from these artistic people far and wide who spend so much of their own time trying to inspire and motivate people to create more art.