Touring DC blog-land

Tonight I went on a whirlwind and inspiring tour of blogs run by artists living in DC.

I started with Paint and Plaster, the blog of local painter and sculptor Sean Hennessey, blogger ID ScenicArtisan (the name of his faux finishing company). Sean posted to Creative DC so I decided to check out his site. Not only did I get to see some really cool work he did on a condo in Penn Quarter (featured on HGTV, thank you very much!), I also fell dizzily into his list of DC arts-related links.

I’ll let you explore the links yourselves, rather than recreating the list here, but among the things that inspired me:

• Sean and a group of friends get together every Monday to draw. They call it Art Mondays, and they blog about it. Sometimes they meet at a place called the Argonaut, which looks really cool.
• This painting, from the Darn Knit blog run by Shoofly:
  Shoofly explains the painting thusly:

  Meet Claude. Claude’s all-time hero was Mike Teavee. Just like Mike, all Claude did all day long was play video games. And all day long his mom and dad took turns repeating “Don’t sit that close to the TV! You’ll go blind!” He quickly learned how to tune them out.

  Did Claude go blind? No. Actually, he developed awesome finger skills and was the champion thumb wrestler at school every year. Did his cat, Elvis, go blind? No. He just grew really really fat.

  I love Claude’s big fat curls.

I could have surfed for hours – but I wanted to take a break and share some of these highlights. I am so inspired to find such an active community of arts-related DC blogs.

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