On that "Let There be Light" Thing … OK!

By: A. Macarthur  •  2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  115 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  5 years ago

Rocky Mountain Sunset © A. Mac/A.G. © A. Mac/A.G. Rocky Mountain Sunset II © A. MacA.G.

CREATIVE ARTS Thursday/Friday … September: Coming to the Close of our Summer of Discontent

By: A. Macarthur  •  2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  179 Comments  •  8 Likes  •  5 years ago

Keeping busy … trying to stay positive in a world of negative. Rocky Mountain High More Rocky Mountain High

You Don't Have to be a Star to be Part of Creative Arts THURSDAY/FRIDAY

By: A. Macarthur  •  2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  195 Comments  •  8 Likes  •  5 years ago

… nor do you need to post anything even remotely star-related. Just join in. Straight of Juan de Fuca, U.S./Canada Sierra Nevada Mountains

Putting Things in Perspective on CREATIVE ARTS Thursday/Friday

By: A. Macarthur  •  2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  151 Comments  •  9 Likes  •  5 years ago

Linear perspective, a system of creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface. All parallel lines (orthogonals) in a painting or drawing using this system converge in a single vanishing point on the composition's horizon line. For example … © A. Mac/A.G. Abandoned...

It's My NATURE … to … Photograph "NATURE" ~ Creative Arts Thursday/Friday

By: A. Macarthur  •  2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  168 Comments  •  7 Likes  •  5 years ago

Box Turtle © A. Mac/A.G. Coreopsis Flowers © A. Mac/A.G. Cormorant Takeoff © A. Mac/A.G.

A Couple of "Then" for Creative Arts Thursday/Friday's Now

By: A. Macarthur  •  2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  203 Comments  •  9 Likes  •  5 years ago

A pair of photos I digitized and restored from Magic Lantern Glass Slides. Scranton, Pennsylvania, c. 1900 A. Mac/A.G. © A. Mac/A.G.

Art, Nature and the Panacea of Fantasy

By: A. Macarthur  •  2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  8 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  5 years ago

“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” _ Albert Einstein ~ Like a lot of young boys, I indulged in certain fantasies, mostly, in my case, the fantasies that I might have a "real shot" at one day pitching in the Major Leagues of Baseball, and...

BIRDS, BUTTERFLIES & ONE BUCK on CREATIVE ARTS THURSDAY/FRIDAY

By: A. Macarthur  •  2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  184 Comments  •  10 Likes  •  5 years ago

American Robin, Male © A. Mac/A.G. Downey Woodpecker, Male © A. Mac/A.G. Another Butterfly Collage © A. Mac/A.G.

Continuing in My "Frame" of Mind ~ CREATIVE ARTS THURSDAY/FRIDAY

By: A. Macarthur  •  2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  293 Comments  •  6 Likes  •  5 years ago

Whether one "frames" a question, a concept, or, issues on which individuals and various entities will make important decisions, viable presentation is significant in life and art! My Masters Degree thesis was entitled, "THE ROLE OF PRESUPPOSITION IN THE PERCEPTION OF ART" -- in other words, the...

Dey Wuz Framed & I Framed 'Em ~ Creative Arts THURSDAY/FRIDAY

By: A. Macarthur  •  2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS  •  259 Comments  •  7 Likes  •  5 years ago

A FRAME is the place a photograph or painting, or, any number of other graphic images live, sometimes for many years. Because of this, it's important that the frame, and, that which it frames, work as an entity rather than individual elements. Cosmos Flower © A. Mac/A.G....