CanvasJunkie Member,  Tim Anthony is well known for his fantastic other worldly landscapes and Alien portraits.

Now Tim  is extending his creativity to candy making!  He and his wife, Arbie, will be opening Sweet! in the Ottenheimer Hall at the Little Rock River Market.  They will be offering delicious handmade candies such as melt in your mouth fudge, brittles, caramel and many other delectable favorites!

The grand opening will take place the first day of River Fest, Friday, May 28th!  They will be open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 – 6:00.  Stop in for a Sweet! moment or two and say hello!

Artists frequently turn to technology for inspirationor commentary, utilizing components such as chips, ink cartridges and disk drives to make their art.  London artist Nick Gentry has turned forgotten floppy disks into art by using them as a canvas for his mixed media paintings.

“The whole world was totally reliant on these physical media formats,” he says. “Now suddenly we are at a time where they are obsolete, replaced by countless intangible data files. Will humans be compatible with our own technology?” Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/art-floppy-disks/#ixzz0fBgviIvC

Was reading one of my favorite blogs just now and the author mentioned that he had just bought "67".

Ok, I was intrigued and decided to investigate. What I found was an artist who was selling 1000 paintings with the numbers 1 through 1000 painted on each one. The artist's name is Marcel Salathe.

"One thousand numbers = one thousand paintings. All beautifully painted on canvas (approx. 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches). Each number is unique - the number is the art is the price is the limit."

www.onethousandpaintings.com

From Sync Weekly

"Kandie Cudd, 47, said she isn’t ashamed to admit she married and divorced not one but two men who abused her, because that’s not the whole story of the woman she is today.

Cudd is a vivacious hostess at Mike’s Place in downtown Conway and an artist who uses her life’s experiences as inspiration for her colorful artwork.

Most of those experiences aren’t ones she’d wish on anybody.

Cudd, who was born in California and grew up primarily in Oklahoma, was sexually abused by her father and then her stepfather.

“My first memory is 2 1/2, up until we left when I was 8,” she said of her father’s abuse.

One of Cudd’s most vivid memories of the abuse was when she was 3 and her mother was in a California hospital giving birth to Cudd’s sister.

“That was probably the worst experience, the worst that he did,” Cudd said, adding simply: “He had more time.”

Her father told her he was “going to show me how he loved mom.”

On other occasions, Cudd said she doesn’t know where her mother was when her father abused her."

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Nathan Beatty