by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 20, 2014 | Art, Business, Cultural Hub, Display, Exhibit, Gallery-row, Gentrification, Marketing, South-granville, Vancouver
The neighbourhood as it was when I lived there. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with South Granville, the shopping strip between 6th and 16th Avenues.This was the neighbourhood of my first apartment, a $350-per-month studio in the old Greenwood Lodge, in the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 13, 2014 | Art, Cartoon, Creative Process, Draw Down, Drawing, Expression, Ideas, Mural, Playing, Social Engagement, Vancouver
Remember when you were a kid you knew you could give a drawing as a present to any adult and that adult would love it, even though you would definitely not like a drawing-present yourself?It’s one of those things that separates the kids from the adults. You know...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 6, 2014 | Blogs, Composition, Creative Process, Critique, Design, Distraction, Distracts, Expression, Ideas, Inspiration, Motivation, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Process, Studio, Writing
Distracts #1, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 33″W x 27″H. To me, the easiest part about carving out a place in the visual arts world is writing something about it. Yet most of my artist colleagues don’t know how I make myself do it on a weekly basis. Easy....
by Carlyn Yandle | May 29, 2014 | Art Discourse, Billy Patko, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Crochet, Douglas-coupland, Exhibit, Found Objects, Gallery, Handwork, Hot Art Wet City, Ideas, Inspiration, Lynda Barry, Playing, Process, Project, Rachael Ashe, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver
I would rather watch the little kids in my life play than watch the best TV. But it’s tricky because they don’t like to be observed and if they feel I’m too interested, they are on to me and it all comes to a halt. I have to refrain from the urge to...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’ve blown valuable vacation days at one all-inclusive Cancun resort and on one gargantuan cruise ship and I can safely say as long as I can stand upright and feed myself I will not endure either again.There’s no place there for getting my mojo back...
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