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

First Review

One of three - Soon he will be in the a world of his course, Learn Printmaking Online, and he must consider the nature of the new course against the conventions of teaching he once practiced in the old, dying world of printmaking. There will be reviews and preparations. 991 Words. ©2008 Bill Ritchie. os080506. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Legend Making

Three works in one - A happenstance usage of the word legend starts this print maker (also a maker of printing presses) in contemplation of the meaning of the word as it applies both to the interpretation of maps and story telling. He thus wonders if he might be three people. 712 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Tale of A Blind Elephant

Who knows what computer art is? - Adaptation of the story of the blind men and the elephant to provide answers to the question, "What is Computer Art?" The author is an artist who began his work with printmaking and worked up to video and computer art from there. He’s a story teller, too. 1474 Words. Copyright 1988 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com