(in no particular order, but most recently added are near the top)

ARTISTS:

Bernie Rauch
SF Social & Political Realism
www.burnrock.net

Pam Heyda
SF Sunset District, Magical Realism
http://www.pamelaheyda.com

Gottfried Helnwein
dark, photo-based realism
http://www.helnwein.com/

John Paul Turnage
Sunset-based, San Francisco Realist
http://www.jpturnage.com

Tim Lusk
My nephew - just starting on his BFA
http://www.timmybones.com

David Steinhardt
One of the many great artists living in the neighborhood on San Francisco's western edge.
http://www.dsart.biz

ZanshinArt
A couple of my favorite artists living in this SF neighborhood
http://www.zanshinart.com

Steve Delinger
Another Sunset artist who does brightly colored symbolic/iconic paintings
http://artcycles.com/art/

Dale Erickson
One of San Francisco's best Realist painters
living and working at Project Artuad.
http://www.bigcrow.com/ede

Vault d'Or
Bones, stones, eggs, bats, spiders and beads... you gotta check it out!
http://www.bigcrow.com/vaultdor

Xenia Hausner
figurative painter, colorist
http://www.xeniahausner.de/

Robert Schwartz
painted tiny gouache mysteries
http://www.realart.com/hfg/html/contemp-html/schwartz-html/schwartz_main.html

Chester Arnold
A Bay Area artist and teacher, his work is weird, wonderful, full of pathos and humor
http://www.lindahodgesgallery.com

Trucage
Artists who paint on walls and other home surfaces.... murals, faux finishes, and more!
http://www.trucage.com

Agnes Pelton
One of my all-time favorite painters, almost forgotten today, but I keep hoping someone prints a nice big fat monograph on her one of these days.
http://artscenecal.com
http://www.sla.purdue.edu

Alice Neel
Another great American painter, who always went her own way - an inspiration.
http://www.aliceneel.com/

Sherry Miller
It was Sherry who inspired me to leave nursing and commit to the artist's life... Sherry's work is a riot of colors, and lively wit. Sherry moved to the Bay Area from Maine.
http://www.sherryart.com/

Charles Burchfield
A truly original American artist, C.B. used watercolors like no one else before or since. Here are my favorites of the many web sites devoted to his work:
Columbus Museum of Art
The Burchfield Homestead Society
Smithsonion
More
Art News and Writing:

Arts Journal - daily digest of art & culture news

Arts & Letters Daily - daily digest of art, philosophy, and literature

SF Gate Art Page
Art Blogs
(my current favorites)

Tyler Green - excellent daily art blog, covers Washington, New York, L.A., San Francisco

Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof - cover Philadelphia art exhibits (LOTS of them!) with friendly, intelligent thoughts and gossip

ionarts - daily music, art & lit blog with classical leanings, from Washington, DC

artblog.net - "chronicles of an artist in the world" by figure painter Franklin Einspruch

Iconoduel - notes on art and culture from Chicago

Modern Kicks - art & culture commentary from Miguel Sánchez

Studio Notebook - by Carolyn Zick, Seattle artist: daily art observations

From the Floor - Writing about looking at art by Todd Gibson

Thinking About Art - by J.T. Kirkland

DC Art News - by gallerist F. Lennox Campello

San Francisco Art openings - actually, a proto-blog: short, pithy reports, with lots of photos

Zeke's Gallery - art opinions from Quebec

Fresh Paint - art and poitics by painter Cynthia King, from Chicago

Elise Tomlinson - Alaskan painting journal

Marja - Leena Rathje - Finnish-Canadian artist, printmaker

Bare and Bitter Sleep - art, life and rants - pointed and intelligent commentary by Cinque Hicks of Austin

Rachael Buffington Baldanza - painting, drawing and upbeat observations from Rochester, N.Y.

Alanna Spence - San Francisco painter, a journal of her personal life

Eriks Rants and Recipes - frequent art (and other) rants from the SF Bay Area

My Backwards Life - the global and the personal from David Byrne
More Pix, Fewer Words

A Painting a Day - by Duane Keiser from Richmond, VA

Romanblog(Vblog) - video interviews of artists by Philly artist, Vincent Romaniello

Speed of Life - by Greg Chadwick, from SF, & SoCal

Visual Journal - Photos of SF by Jose Luis
Info Sites
For Artists

Art Thoughts - by Alyson B. Stanfield, business coach for artists

Robert Genn - artist to artist, about the practice of art, twice weekly from Canada
Blog Indexes

ArtsFeed - an all-in-one-place list of links to the latest art and culture blogs

DeepBlog - an easy updated guide to QUALITY blogs

BlogWise - a search site for blogs

BlogSearch Engine - Search Engine and Directory of blogs
My Favorite non-art Blogs

Sneeze - it's funny

Travis Rants - my nephew is a Connecticut yankee in a North Carolina radio station

101 Cookbooks - I love to eat

Witold Riedel - stream of consciousness from an uncommon mind

Blog Herald - news about blogs, blogs in the news

NewsGrist - about media, spin, and copyright

Art Sites & Supplies, and more gifted people:

Creative Spotlite - free art lessons
articles, lessons, and tips on watercolor,
oil painting, acrylic painting, pastels, crafts and more.
http://www.creativespotlite.com

MesArt
San Francisco based, artist-run web gallery
http://www.mesart.com

Fluent Collaborative
Austin-based arts resource site
http://www.fluentcollab.org/

Sunset Artists Society
More than 80 artists who live and work out here in the fog...
http://sunsetartists.com/

Golden Acrylic Paint
They make acrylic paints and mediums. ( My favorite paints.) Good stuff.
http://www.goldenpaints.com

Ampersand Art Supply
They make Claybord, Gessobord and other premium painting surfaces. The web
site has a lot of technical information and a gallery.
http://www.ampersandart.com

Ben Graves
Musician, recently relocated from SF to Nashville. The subject of some of my paintings. Check out his new CD at
http://www.bengraves.com

John Wall
My favorite wildlife photographer.
http://www.jwallphoto.com/

Harry S. Pariser
Harry writes travel books, paints watercolors and inspires me to stay creative and ignore the "normal"
http://www.savethemanatee.com

JT Lusk
Another nephew, and a rising radio star.
http://jtlusk.com/

the-Insight.com - spirituality/humanism

MaMa Laudate
Experience the ART of cooking!
http://www.mamalaudate.com
About San Francisco, and especially my neighborhood - the Outer Sunset

Doggie Diner
Behold Da Dog... Keep it whole,
(back on) on the pole!
http://www.doggiediner.com

Musee Mechanique
antique carnival machines from Playland at the Beach
http://www.sanfranciscomemories.com/musee/mechanique.html

PlayLand at the Beach
the old carnival at Ocean Beach
http://www.laffinthedark.com/articles/pacific/pacific.htm

Western Neigborhoods Project
History about the "Outside Lands"
http://www.outsidelands.org/

San Francisco Botanical Garden
Gardens of the world - in Golden Gate Park
http://www.strybing.org/

The Official Alcatraz Web Site
part of teh Golden Gate National Recreation Area
http://www.nps.gov/alcatraz/

San Francisco Hotels and Hotel Reservations
Find the lowest rates for hotel reservations in San Francisco, California.
http://sanfranciscohotels.itravel.bz

San Francisco Hotels and Hotel Reservations
Find the lowest rates for San Francisco hotels and more at
www.San-Francisco.cc.
http://www.san-francisco.cc

The Golden Gate Hotel
a really nice B&B
http://www.goldengatehotel.com/

California Earthquake Updates
recent quake activity from the USGS
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

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