First Class

Consider this an online course - While completing a four-part tutorial he calls Mastering the Art of A Digital Game, the inventor considers offering his tutorial to people who invested in another one of his invention designs—a miniature etching press—which he believes to be interrelated.328 Words. os100206. ©2010 Bill Ritchie

Your Mission

Four steps to game analysis and adaptation - The game inventor must practice every day with a four-part exercise in game analysis and adaptation. With a popular game by another artistic group (a classic rock group in this instance) he or she must complete four tasks in an hour or less and report it. 696 Words. os100127. ©2010 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Artist Stamp Collecting

Getting started toward electronic Artists Stamps - Working on his Stamps ‘N Stories series today the artist realizes few people know what Artist’s Stamps are so he begins to write a descriptive pamphlet on the subject of getting started collecting these miniature works of art, planning to realize the eAS. 1147 Words. os091203. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full Text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

EATC

Electronic Artist Trading Cards - A chance meeting online with a creator of e-cards—those animated, musical greeting cards we get through our e-mail—launches this writer on an inquiry for some way to utilize the e-card in his inventing of a method for learning fine art printmaking online. 1181 words. (c) 2009 Bill Ritchie. os091113. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com.

Bellwether Brainstorm

Visions of a new school coming - A persistent concept he calls the “perfect studio” seems closer today as the world economy presses for better ways to educate the young and re-educate the old among creative individuals in the mediums of printmaking. This professor envisions a new school. 982 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. os091004. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Official Autobiography

Shared world of Bill Ritchie - Reviewing the past months’ writing stored on a shared computer, this artist discovers an “official biography” sketched out by his working associate. Instead of making additions, he saves it as “official autobiography” and he makes changes to the original. 297 Word preface. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. os090527. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Pressmaker’s Workshop

How to start your own business making etching presses - As part of his blended online printmaking teaching plan, the designer of a press that goes with the course describes how he wants to approach the “localization” of the business of providing presses and accessories for students, and a vision of a workshop. 906 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. os090417. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com