Steven Preston

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Here is my collection of resources I use, or have used, that I view as valuable so I don't want to loose track of them. All external links (with the up-right arrow ↗ ) open in a new tab or window depending on your browser settings.

Artists I like & follow

David Brady: Collage, Assemblage, Oil, and Drawing bradyart.com ↗

Danny Gregory, author, artist & tea drinker. A creative guy who helps other creative people. dannygregory.com ↗

Danny also sends out a weekly essay. Sign up at dannysessays.com ↗

David Revoy: Artist, Instructor, using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software. I find his artwork and philosophy intriguing. davidrevoy.com ↗

Boris Pleša: Croatian graphic designer, artist and author who makes really cool posters. borisplesa.com ↗

Jason Chambers: Cubism, Abstract jasonchambersart.com ↗

Martin Singer: Contemporary French artist. I found him on Instagram in 2023 but have since left IG so I won't link to him there, because its Meta. I can't find a website for him other than a few online stores, but there's a nice writeup on him here -> photographize.co ↗

Nikke Naeme: a multidisciplinary ‘do-it-myselfer’ based in Amsterdam nikke.nl ↗

Pete Doyle: based in Asheville North Carolina pd-2k.art ↗

Darcy Borgart: based in Arizona, her art is a fusion of animal-inspired organic shapes and geometric patterns. Very cool! darcyborgart.com ↗

Jerstin Crosby: Very cool abstract art, from Winston-Salem, NC jerstin.com ↗

Tim Novara: San Diego CA, mixed media, acrylic paint, ink and pencil, and digitally altered photographs timnovara.com ↗

Terence L. Smith: Los Angeles CA, self taught artist, watercolor, pen & ink, acrylics terencesmithart.com ↗

K. Dewayne Mercer: Slaughter, LA, self-taught artist works with oil and cold wax medium kdmercer-art.squarespace.com ↗

Linda Rossiter: amazing hard edge glass art glassartbylinda.com ↗

Kelly Wilder: mixed media artist based in Milan, Italy kellywilderart.com ↗

Pamela Nigro: San Diego CA, very cool abstract work pamelanigroart.com ↗

Sara Lamond, Cape Breton Canada, nature inspired abstract driftwoodgallery.art ↗

Art Education Resources

ART OF THE ZERO CATEGORY: A facinating story of a collection of highly questionable paintings and a journey through the darkest corridors of the art world. artofthezero.com ↗

Artlyst: A London-based art information website. artlyst.com ↗

Miscellaneous Resources

Stuff I haven't decided on how to catagorize yet.

Blogroll.org is a human curated list of personal blogs and websites. blogroll.org ↗

Search My Site is a currated search engine of indieweb / small web / digital gardens. I haven't use this much yet but still wanted to put it on this page for easy access. searchmysite.net ↗

Indie Web Camp: a community of independent and personal websites based on the principles of: owning your domain and using it as your primary online identity, publishing on your own site first (optionally elsewhere), and owning your content. indieweb.org ↗

Getting Started on the Indie Web: We should all own the content we're creating, rather than just posting to third-party content silos.Publish on your own domain, and syndicate out to silos. This is the basis of the "Indie Web" movement. – IndieWeb.org IndieWebify.Me ↗

Developer Education Resources

Dev Terms is a great resource for learn relevent jargon devterms.io ↗

32-Bit Cafe offers de-corporatized alternatives to popular services to help unplug from the corporate internet and help guide folks to express themselves on the web. 32bit.cafe ↗