My WorkTumblr (3.0; @stevencousens)http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4v0zpyZ2z1r95c0lo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Bellingham Art walk Friday June1st. Waterfront Artist Studios. New work, live music!</p>http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/24094001593http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/24094001593Wed, 30 May 2012 16:52:37 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3v7yawpP51r95c0lo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Capturing the sun again.</p>http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/22843907481http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/22843907481Fri, 11 May 2012 08:49:22 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyttipTzYp1r95c0lo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Another amazing day outside my studio door! Going to be tough to work today.</p>http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/16979282794http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/16979282794Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:52:01 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxunlmQvSn1qzb8a9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://jonathanwinstone.tumblr.com/post/15890930291">jonathanwinstone</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Inspiration is for amateurs</strong></p> <p>“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”</p> <p>Chuck Close</p> </blockquote>http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/16667161051http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/16667161051Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:06:55 -0800<p>Healthy food, walking in nature, and creating.</p>http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/16611586619http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/16611586619Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:19:40 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhgyazVoq1r95c0lo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>The view from my studio window Thursday morning. Yes, that is the sun!</p>http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/16606617771http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/16606617771Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:49:22 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhg6pG5Ca1r95c0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Oil, 12x30”</p>http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/16605708703http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/16605708703Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:32:48 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvdavOowF1qgl98no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fyeahwomenartists.com/post/14864394905/helen-frankenthaler-abstract-painter-who-shaped">fyeahwomenartists</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter Who Shaped a Movement, Dies at 83”</p> <p>(via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/arts/helen-frankenthaler-abstract-painter-dies-at-83.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter, Dies at 83 - NYTimes.com</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/14894403050http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/14894403050Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:25:59 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvuzvLWlA1r95c0lo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvuzvLWlA1r95c0lo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvuzvLWlA1r95c0lo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvuzvLWlA1r95c0lo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvuzvLWlA1r95c0lo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvuzvLWlA1r95c0lo9_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/14881700867http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/14881700867Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:11:00 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvs1pj8ma1r95c0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Old Barn” a recent piece </p>http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/14878525241http://stevencousens.tumblr.com/post/14878525241Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:08:13 -0800