Licensing Halfwood

You can take it with you - After five years of developing the design of the Halfwood Press, the designer contemplates a way he can continue the product line concurrently with helping it grow to its full potential. The best option is to license the designs and production to someone. 1383 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. vp090622. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Screenplay Blender

Writing backstory, screenplay and scripts for ELPO - Taking on the project of a blended online printmaking course gets complicated when your online presence must assume a virtual role, playing in a virtual world. You must be a writer as well as a printmaker and you must write in both real and virtual forms. 942 Words. vp090612. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Benefits of Learning Printmaking Online

Ten reasons to invest in Emeralda: Learn Printmaking Online - As an artist and professor in higher education and the inventor of a digital-game-like user interface for a fine arts online course, the author provides ten reasons why people taking his printmaking course at this time think it makes a good deal of sense. 1377 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. vp090314. For full text email: ritchie@emeralda.com

Moment Numbers

Elemental time and space code words for ELPO - 20th Century artist printmakers used edition numbers as part of their art’s provenance. They did not consider edition numbers to be important, but to the publisher, art dealer and collector they were, and are. Moment numbers replace edition numbers today. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. 1853 Words. vp090523. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Renewing Goals

Kansas calls - An email message from a professor in Kansas gives pause to this professor in Seattle. The email suggests a visit to the Midwest University to give a workshop and display. While this may be in keeping with the author’s goals, he has to wonder how it is so. 801 Words. Full text by email request

Knowledge Art

Coming out of the woods
A visit from a new friend awakens in this artist a sense that despite his friend’s wide knowledge of regional art and artists he doesn’t have a deep knowledge of this artist himself. He concludes it is because he has taken on a different kind of artistry. 220 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.

Emeralda Grant

Proposal to make a fine art game
After a coffee shop discussion between two creatives about fine art and computer games, they consider writing a grant to take their idea higher where other artists can make use of it. This essay gives the background and describes the problem and solution. 972 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill H. Ritchie. Full text by email request.