TOP 25 ART & ILLUSTRATION NEWSLETTERS ON SUBSTACK
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A full list of the top 25 art newsletters and podcasts on Substack. Includes original artwork from top artists, along with advice, tips and inspiration for aspiring artists, and reviews and analysis on trends in the art world.
Drawing explorations, lessons, and weekly art assignments from New York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton. Paying subscribers get full access to the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table creative community.
Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.
A weekly newsletter to fuel your devotion, cultivate your creative attention, and offer advice on your most vulnerable questions
a product oracle, we see for you.
Join me as I share a drawing a week for one year in an attempt to rekindle the joy of creating. Includes random musings on inspiration, motivation and how to keep pouring from your creative cup even when it feels like there's a hole in it.
Getting better at getting badder
I realize it should read "getting better at getting worse" but "getting better at getting badder" really sings.
It's okay to rest.
Why is it that whenever I see a baby or a puppy yawn my heart melts and I feel all warm inside watching them sigh deeply and surrendering to sleep…but when I feel exhausted it comes with feelings of guilt or defeat? Why do we whisper sweetly and take pictures when Hunter S. Thomcat is asleep in a sunbeam on the kitchen floor, but it’s “weird and a trip hazard” when I sprawl out next him after a particularly carby lunch?
Just a girl in clogs with a blog, publicly learning to love myself. Radical self-sharer, romance themes abound. These letters make frequent stops at personal histories, relationships, and self-fulfillment. It ain't much but it's honest work.
Contemporary art delivered daily to your inbox from Danielle Krysa, the founder of The Jealous Curator, and best-selling author of several books on art & creativity.
art delivery : 11.08.23
This is “Childhood Memories” (2017) by Barcelona born, Chicago based artist Selva Aparicio. Here’s her description from an interview with My Modern Met: “Rugs are typically adorned with sacred gardens and oases, and can be moved around the home. This rug stayed put, quietly participating in years of familial abuse. This installation is about covering and exposing, trauma, and bearing witness. My memories are permanently etched, so the soft fabric is represented in hand-carved scars on discarded wood flooring.”
art delivery : 12.09.23
Georgia based artist Ashley Benton is our ‘member in the spotlight today’! I love all of the wonderful characters she creates, but that final little lady is titled “World’s Grumpiest Girl” which for some reason makes me ridiculously happy. As does this:
#The100DayProject is a free, global art project that takes place online. Every year, thousands of people all around the world commit to 100 days of creating. Anyone can participate (yes, that means you!).
Day 1 of #The100DayProject 🎉
Set an intention or goal to guide you
#The100DayProject 2023 daily prompts
Hello, all – If you subscribed after the project ended in June, you can find each of the daily posts in order here – happy creating! XO, Lindsay WEEK 1: creating the container Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4
Exploring the best in animation from all around the world — part investigation, part treasure hunt.
Arts & Entertainment from illustrator Carson Ellis
Field research in the expanse between the tactile and the intangible;
noticing yarn, light, line, things that want to be made,
and the luminous joy of working with the materials at hand.
Casting On:
in which Sarah makes a first attempt to reconnect with her beloved textile companions after lo these many months.
balancing act
Well that settles it! At least, I hope it does. Anyway we’ll call it as done as possible for a short tapestry on a long warp— —and hope the sweet thing doesn’t mind being upside down (and at the back of the loom)— —until whatever is ready to manifest in these still unwoven inches makes itself known.
This is where I share my life as a craftsman specializing in making chairs by hand. Here I share the activities, motivation and techniques that I drive my craft.
Besides building and selling chairs, I teach chair making, design tools for the trade and make instructional videos and plans. My first book, which I wrote and illustrated is "Chairmaker's Notebook" published in 2015.
I don't want to make A chair
When I set out to make my first chair, it was a trip into the wilderness. Strange tools and techniques were the means, but when I came to the destination, I found far more questions than answers. Chairs are endless in their variation and after a short while, I realized that I wasn’t just interested in making one successful chair, I wanted to know the underpinning of how chairs work and why. I didn’t want to make A chair, I wanted to be able make any chair that I could imagine.
Class Exerpt
Seat Carving
Hi, it’s me Helen Stephens. This is a juicy chat between illustrator pals. I’ll be sharing stuff about making picture books that you might feel daft asking. When you sign up you’ll get the Illustrators Freebies. Yes-please-thank-you!
We Inspire Artists to Inspire the World.
Learn How to Market Your Art in the 21st Century Creator Economy
Join a thriving symposium for the Mothers, the Mystics and the Makers. We explore soulful business, creativity, motherhood, philosophy and more as we find our rhythm between mothering and making. Your lap of luxury in the form of weekly essays, The Mother Maker interview series, Cauldrons (a mix of recommendations and magic), guest posts, and soon to be online workshops and more.
I believe everyone is an artist, including you. I share motivation & inspiration to look at the world around you to find the perfect thing to draw to express who you are and the moment you are in. From bestselling author of the Draw Your Day book series.
A curated mix of images and ideas
I write about quilts, trees, Lake Michigan, gay things, wool, and life as an artist.
Welcome to Study Hall With Sarah Hoover: art history musings that you’ll never read on a dusty old man’s bookshelf. This is a newsletter for the people who always wanted to take an art history class, or took one years ago and are anxious to dive back in. It’s for those of you who recognize that a lot of that art was born from trauma, and that feminist art in particular has a deep history, chock full of stories needing to be told.
Feminists Before Feminism: Gentileschi’s Revenge
Welcome to Study Hall With Sarah Hoover: art history musings that you’ll never read on a dusty old man’s bookshelf. This is a newsletter for the people who always wanted to take an art history class, or took one years ago and are anxious to dive back in. It’s for those of you who recognize that a lot of that art was born from trauma, and that feminist a…
Yoko
So much more than that bitch that broke up the Beatles
A weekly newsletter where I offer my musings on photography and the photographic process that I developed over my 42 year career as a professional photographer.
The Dark Side of Instagram: Detrimental Effects on Photography and Photographers
August 19, 2023 issue #78 – Here I am, complaining about Instagram again.
Remembering Elliott Erwitt and Larry Fink - Part 2
December 5, 2023 issue #103 – In part 1 I spoke of Larry Fink, here, I'll speak of Elliott Erwitt.
An arts newsletter you'll love if you're into ceramics. The editor of Ceramics Now brings you the week's news and shares a curated selection of artists and exhibitions.
62 – An artistic intersection of ceramic stories and identities
Ceramics Now Weekly #62 features an insightful article and interview, the week's news in the ceramics world, and new featured artists.
63 – An invitation to take part in several ceramic competitions
Ceramics Now Weekly #63 features several calls for submissions, the week's news in the ceramics world, and new featured artists.
Adventures in the unseen world of photography.
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