OK, let's dive right into the next 10 web sites. If you haven't shared your web site with the rest of us send it to me and I guarantee it will be in the next newsletter.

Here are the unique and passionate paintings of North Carolina artist Joan vandermeer.

Check out the huge range of work from Australian artist Georgia Mansur

Betty Doolittle Tuininga has a Facebook page where her colorful, primitivist, expressive paintings can be seen.

Don't miss the dazzling figurative paintings of old Denver friend Darrell Anderson

Virginia artist Marcia Dale Dullum blows me away with her abstract/figurative work.

The desert experience and a Wolf Kahn Fellowship provides the inspiration for California artist Emily Silver.

Arizona artist Diane Bonaparte paints with oils, acrylics and mixed media and builds beautiful crosses as well.

Central Ohio landscape painter Richard Clem paints beautifully sensitive landscapes of his surroundings.

Raised in the Amish countryside of rural Indiana and having studied in NYC, prolific North Carolina artist Dee Beard Dean paints portraits, figures, landscapes and en plein air.

Fellow Art Students League compatriot Alix Travis paints expressive and dynamic figurative paintings.

next month I start with Andrea Daquino, Carol Vogel, Jean Pedersen and Bob Bryant... so send me your site too.

Miscellaneous

From Reuters News April 10: "The U.S. economy is set to emerge from recession in the second half of this year as consumer spending and the housing sector recover." Perfect timing for this Bordeaux workshop! And to help you register I am waiving part of my cancellation policy. If you pay your deposit and then need to cancel later on you will get ALL of your deposit back - no questions asked. Right now flights are unbelievably reasonable. I'm finding fares from San Diego, Dallas or JFK under $800 all the way to Bordeaux (airport code BOD)! The change of planes is made in Charles de Gaulle for the connecting flight to Bordeaux.

Readers of the USA Museums Database selected the best museum sites in the USA. Not the best museums, but the best museum web sites. Here's the list along with the sites. Here's a list of the top ten art museums of the world - all except one of these are in the US. This will give you the chance to cast your vote.

A wonderful on and a half minute video about a Kandinsky show coming to Paris then NYC. In Paris now through August 10 2009 at the Centre Pompidou.

Here is a site that provides listings for more than 400 art schools and private instructors around the USA and Canada. Find classes and lessons in drawing, painting, pastels, printmaking, sculpture, watercolors, and more at ArtsLearningGuide.com. Art schools and teachers: please feel free to sign up for a free listing!

Artists' Quotes ( a few more than usual)

Constantin Brancusi: "Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave".

Eugene Delacroix: "What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough".

Richard Diebenkorn: "Abstract literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts".

Marlene Dumas: "What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so-called figurative artists insist that what they really care about are the abstract qualities of life".

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