Three Squares a Day

The following featured hand-cut wooden jigsaw puzzles are some of Carrie’s early pieces, patterned after the jigsaws popular in America between about 1910 to 1940.
In the early 1930’s, with the country in a great depression, wooden jigsaw puzzles, especially those featuring figural pieces, hit their zenith of popularity. Wealthy collectors bought them [...]

Limited edition Puzlet Gem replacements are only available for a very short time. We may or may not keep a small backup supply following sell-out of an edition. After a brief period any backup supply is destroyed or stamped “sample” in order to maintain edition limit integrity.
If you receive a Puzlet Gem that is damaged or [...]

I went and visited the Art Renewal Center’s website this morning.  They have a list they’ve released that claims to be the top 225 most popular artists in history based on web searches.  All of the artists are representational.   They also claim it debunks the modernist’s propoganda that modernists lead the popularity contest.
If you haven’t had a chance [...]

Well, I love horses, and it shows in my art.  Quantum Ponies are exceptional in detail, but also offer that artsy feel so many people covet.  I will be doing more horse trios in the future, some in realistic style, and some in other styles and mediums.  But forever, Quantum Ponies will be my signature trio set.  

As a self-taught artist I have not received an extensive introduction to art philosophy.  Yet, I admit I am curious, and I have once or twice been confronted with the question of my art being “fake.”
 
My curiosity was recently rekindled as I read another artist’s expression of fear that she might unwittingly produce a “fake” [...]