I was talking with a fellow artist today and I promised that I would share some of the RSS feeds that I subscribe to.  For those of you who are not RSS-savvy.  RSS subscriptions allow you to receive updates to all kinds of syndicated internet content, particularly blogs.  I subscribe to hundreds of art blogs.  Below are some of my favorites.

Before that, a brief note on tools.
I use Google Reader to capture all of my feeds, and I use different clients to read my Google Reader subscriptions depending on the platform.
iOS: Reeder
Mac OS: Net News Wire
Windows: Feed Demon

Now is also a good time to plug my Twitter feed.  Every time I see something interesting and useful related to art, I post it to my feed.  I’m very selective about what I put on my Twitter feed.  You won’t find out what I had for lunch, that I’m stuck in traffic, or a particularly interesting article I found about the technology gossip.  Just art.  I think of it as an Art Channel.  If that is the content you are interested in, I promise that my Twitter feed is just that.

Okay, so on to my favorite RSS feeds, not in any particular order.

Artist Blogs

• Gurney Journey – Incredibly insightful aesthetic and technical information for artists, from the author/illustrator of Dinotopia, Imaginative Realism, Color and Light.
• Lines and Colors
• Making a Mark
• Carole Marine’s A Painting A Day
• A Painting Today – Daily paintings by Karin Jurick
• Paint-Tarts – Paintings by John Larriva
• Figures – In My Art and My Life – Pastels by Christina Laurendi Havens
• IDrawGirls – Video game concept artist Xia Taptara
• Land Sketch – Paintings by Nathan Fowkes
• The Art of Edward Eyeth
• Zhang Lu
• Stapleton Kearns
• Imagination of Francis Vallejo
• William O’Connor Studios

Despite my inflammatory headline I do, in fact, subscribe to several art magazines.  I will cover those in a future post, including why.  I also have an upcoming post on Art Podcasts.  Stay tuned.

As always, comments welcome.