OK, let's dive right into the next 10 web sites: Send me yours 'cause I'm running out of them again!

Jim Pollock is a founding member of Artists of the Black Hills and currently lives in Pierre, SD

Linda Dobkin left Walt Whitman's Brooklyn for the clean air of Tucson.

Los Angeles artist Cheryl Kline opens art academies when she's not painting.

Virginia artist Betsy Kellum paints in pastels and oils- and has a loooong list of accomplishments.

California water media painter Mary Backer wrote a book called: 'Watercolor in Bloom, Painting the Spring and summer Garden.'

If you like impasto and dynamite color check out Lindy Duncan.

Here are the murals and paintings of New York, Atlanta and San Miguel de Allende artist Deborah Whitehouse.

Representational artist Lorraine Oberg comes to us from our neighbor to the North (no, not North Philly -Canada!).

Versatile Australian artist Concetta Antico paints out of San Diego these days.

Bill Brody goes into the Alaska back country and does some HUGE plein air paintings.

Next month I add the sites of Tom Aikins - who I know personally and who has grown by leaps and bounds, Kathy Steele, Lisa Neher, Elle Foley who I also know personally (a painter and marathon runner who lets me beat her in short foot races) and Katy Grant Hanson. So you see I'm short a couple of sites so send me yours.

Two workshop announcements. I now have dates for the Buenos Aires, Argentina workshop. Ann Templeton will be teaching this workshop February 7 - 15. Here's a link to that information on my site.

The Ken Auster NYC painting workshop is starting to fill so don't miss out on it. I'll be there to be your host!

How about some more artists' quotes? OK... let's start with Jean Michel Basquiat: "Believe it or not, I can actually draw". Andre Breton says: "The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood". Marcel Duchamp adds: "I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste".

I received an email from Susi responding to Texas Ruth's story about finding some of her paintings years after they had been stolen. Susi's story is a nightmare and I can't include it here because she mentions the thief's name - an art dealer. But Susi also has some great advice if you're planning to show your work in a restaurant setting: " As for exhibiting in restaurants, Artist's Magazine did an article on this a few years back and urged artists to make certain the owner added your work to his insurance as a codicile, so that it is protected in the event of catastrophe or theft. I worked hard to educate myself after the theft of my work; now I write my own contracts and specify what can and cannot be done with the work as well as how it is to be protected; the restaurant ( or gallery) owner and myself both get signed/dated copies, as well as a signed, dated inventory sheet naming all the work and their dimensions & medium. Work cannot be taken out without both of us signing the inventory sheet, and potential buyers are not permitted to lift the work off the walls until they have paid for in full. So far, so good."

This newsletter is kind of short. That's because I'm leaving in a week or so for back to back Provence workshops. I'll surely have more to say when I get back.

Phil Levine Workshops, Inc.
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