I made this cover from my art image, Mama Africa Turtle. My efforts are starting to feel like a manuscript! Creating this cover even when I am not finished the writing was a great thing to do for myself to see some tangible progress.

If you are looking for art for your book cover or promotion, you are welcome to go to www.robinlandsong.com and see if there are any images that might be a match for your book theme, if so contact me, and we…

That would be me...although, admittedly, I'm not so little (I'm actually average height).  That's just how I feel at the moment.

I just received a rather crushing rejection.  It's particularly crushing because this felt like my absolute best shot at getting published.  I was a friend of a friend, they specialized in the type of writing that I excel in, and they asked for the entire manuscript (not just five bloody pages!).  Alas, it was not meant to be.  I wasn't the right…

Today's post looks at artist Brendan Jamison's carved sugar sculptures, which include replicates of Tate Mausoleum, Tate Modern, and 10 Downing Street. Videos show the pieces installed.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/12/wednesday-wonder-sugar-high.html

Posted All Art Friday. Today's edition spotlights an Italian gelato museum, ArtCyclopedia, Culture Street, a modern art course, and the video "Reading Between the Lines". The roundup highlights exhibitions at Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art (artists and writers), Pittsburgh Filmmakers Center for the Arts ("Marcellus Shale Documentary Project"), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (Terry Evans photographs), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art ("Drawing Surrealism"). In the Notable…

Artist Dryden Goodwin is seeking to raise awareness of air pollution's dangers, especially its detrimental effects on children, with his thought-provoking film "Breathe". In London this past October, Goodwin projected his short nightly onto the facade of a hospital on London's South Bank, a site captured by Monet in his work. London is among Europe's most polluted cities. 

I've included a video documentation of "Breathe".…

All Art Friday spotlights Lebanese artist Cynthia Nouhra, the Met's "Inventing Abstraction" show, Ursinus College's Berman Museum of Art's exhibition "Access-Ability", programs for seniors at the Whitney Museum, and Carne Griffith's drawings in tea and calligraphy.

The roundup highlights exhibitions at the National Building Museum ("Detroit Is No Dry Bones") for which I've included a video; Illinois's Rockford Art Museum (mixed media by artists of Little City, a program for people…

Today, in Part 2 of my two-part interview "She Turns to Art to Heal", holistic nurse and artist Lisa Wayman explains why she turned to art during her late son's illness, what she learned from her art-making and how she applies her "lessons" in life and at work, and what observations she's made about art's beneficial effects on others.…