April is National Poetry Month, so let’s write a poem! Let yourself go, relax and write it can be a haiku or rhyme-y. Unlock the inner beatnik and go- daddy-o! Read my poem. And try the How-to-make a Dadaist poem it is quick and fun. For the analog challenged we found you a dada poem […]
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Don’t Forget to Make an Awards Show
I.I.T.A.P.A.O.T.L.A.A. Ceremony In honor of the Oscars and other awards ceremonies I thought it would be fun to make my own awards ceremony. I thought instead of best picture or best director I would make up my own categories. I am calling it the I.I.T.A.P.A.O.T.L.A.A. – Imagination Insurance The Art Project Awards of the Life […]
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Paul Bunyan Pancake Club
Logo Design by Robert Schmolze SHOP HOME GOODS AND APPERAL Friend Time Logo Black Portrait Water Bottle BUY ON RED BUBBLE Imagination Insurance the Art Project Paul Bunyan Pancake Club Series | Water Bottle BUY ON RED BUBBLE Imagination Insurance the Art Project Paul Bunyan Pancake Club Series Baseball ¾ Sleeve T-Shirt BUY ON RED [...] Continue Reading -
A Woman Called Moses
Helping others ... helping themselves RELATED A Woman Called Moses by reschmolze on March 4, 2022 About Love, Letter from John Steinbeck by reschmolze on February 7, 2022 Martin Luther King by reschmolze on January 17, 2022 How to Form Your Advisory Board by reschmolze on July 22, 2019 John F. Kennedy by Robert Schmolze [...] Continue Reading -
About Love, Letter from John Steinbeck
In November of 1958, John Steinbeck — the renowned author of, most notably, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men — received a letter from his eldest son, Thom, who was attending boarding school. In it, the teenager spoke of Susan, a young girl with whom he believed he had fallen in love. Steinbeck replied the same day. His beautiful letter of advice can be enjoyed below. (Source: Steinbeck: A Life in Letters)
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Martin Luther King
Thank you Martin Luther King Jr. for sharing your dreams and having the courage to imagine a better future.
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Letters from Santa
What would Santa Say? Download Santa’s Stationary and write a naughty or nice note to a friend or loved one.
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Write a Story: A Cyclops loses his love, an Urban Logger from Oxnard.
Write a story today here’s a plotline and some character ideas. Living life on the edge, the main character James Dramas, a proud cyclops from Albuquerque, was as confused as a skinned mongoose trimming a Christmas tree. James loses what’s dearest to him when he becomes Head of Creative Architect at Constangy, Birdwalk & Smood. […]
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Happy Halloween
HAPPY HALLOWEEN from all of us at Imagination Insurance the Art Project! RELATED Letters from Santa by reschmolze on December 1, 2021 Happy National… by Robert Schmolze on November 2, 2021 This Sunday Fall Back Daylight Savings by Robert Schmolze on November 1, 2021 Halloween is coming by Robert Schmolze on October 25, 2021 October [...] Continue Reading -
Oil Painting Tips and Tricks by Winsor & Newton
Oil Painting Hints and Tips Canvas Stretched cotton canvas has been the most common support for oils since the 17th century. The weave of the cloth combined with the spring of the stretched material are the features which maintain its popularity. Canvas board Canvas boards have traditionally been used for sketching outdoors. Boards take up […]
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How to Form Your Advisory Board
Sharing is Caring When I was much younger I was asked to be apart of a “Counsel of Elders”. It was a great honor and completely unexpected. Being so young myself I felt I did not have much to contribute to this younger man’s wisdom. But it did several things for me. It put me […]
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Ways to Make Networking Work
Make no mistake. Networking is a great way to meet a lot of business professionals at one time. Networking events allow people to put a face and personality to your business. But like everything, there is a right way and a wrong way. If your networking persona is amiss you risk wasting your time and […]
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Happy International Museum Day
Today, May 18, is International Museum Day, an annual occasion first designated by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in 1977 to honor the important role that museums play in societal development. As ICOM notes, “The museum is an institution that preserves and communicates the past, yet it is grounded in the present. In its very essence, […]
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Karl Hugo Schmölz
After previous photographers apprenticeship with his father Hugo Schmölz in Cologne he led after his death in 1938, continued the photo workshop. In 1956 he married the photographer Walde Huth and founded the studio with this “schmölz + huth”. Through intensive collaboration with his father, the commissioned work could be continued without interruption after 1938. After military service Karl Hugo Schmölz documented the […]
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Before Bauhaus there was Bauhaus
THE BAUHAUS MANIFESTO Walter Gropius, “Bauhaus Manifesto and Program” (1919) The ultimate aim of all visual arts is the complete building! To embellish buildings was once the noblest function of the fine arts; they were the indispensable components of great architecture. Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only […]
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