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“What an artist chooses to represent or work from is one of the factors that makes every individual’s art distinctive and original. It can help if you have a good story to tell. Or if you have...
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“You won’t catch me brushing up on Matisse or Picasso. I prefer to research art created by the mentally ill, the homeless, the insane and the forgotten. They seem to all have one thing in common-the...
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“Painting is a language much like English, Latin, French, or mathematics. It just happens to be a language you learned, without even trying, when you were very young. Today you are as fluent in...
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” From bright colors, unique borders, layering and creative ways with text, there are endless concepts we can draw from Frida Kahlo’s artwork and personal diaries to use in our own journals. Frida’s...
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” If you looked out your car window on the way to work this morning you would have gotten tons of ideas for your journal pages. Take graffiti. Graffiti artists develop their own styles based on...
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“Every intrepid traveler knows that each journey, no matter what its length or degree of difficulty, begins with a single step. How one take that initial step and in what direction determines much of...
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“Art schools and art departments try to help students develop a “style” ( or “voice” or “manner” or “set of concerns”). That seems natural enough , but it also puts constraints on what can be done....
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” The individuality of your artistic voice takes a while to mature,but be reassured, it’s there. Only a very few artists, such as Durer, VanDyck, Bonington, Sargent, and Picasso, did notable work in...
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” Another dilemma that confronts many students occurs when they have been working on both abstract and representational pieces. They are equally interested in the two directions and at the same time...
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” Kandinsky is painting music. That is to say, he has broken down the barrier between music and painting and has isolated the pure emotion which, for want of a better name, we call the artistic...
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“Just as a battery’s power comes from wires attached to opposite poles, sources of our creative energy are often derived from opposites. An understanding of both extremes gives an artist a deeper...
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“Cultivate and value the skill of allowing thoughts and ideas to rise from your creative depths unhindered by the filters of logic, critique or worries about other people’s opinions. Have you ever...
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“Representational art does not begin with the object; it begins with the fascination a human being feels upon witnessing a portion of the world. It is a fascination with the form, color, line, height,...
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Many , if not most, artists have music on in the background while they are painting or drawing because there is a natural rapport between these two art forms. In certain forms of improvisational...
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As the blogging continues, I wonder sometimes what purpose it should serve. I want to appeal to artists of every ‘stripe’,young and old. I look for inspiring quotes , educational quotes, personal...
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VARIETY Variety is the counterweight to harmony, the other side of organization essential to unity. Although an artist might bring a work together with harmony, it is variety that imparts...
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SEVEN WAYS THE ARTIST SEES When you compare a Rembrandt to a Vermeer, it’s hard to believe they were practically neighbors, living at exactly the same time in a little country about twice the size of...
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Developing Ideas Creativity comes from ideas. For the artist , a creative idea may be an all-encompassing plan, a unique set of relationships, an attitude to be conveyed, or a solution to a visual...
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EXCERPT TAKEN FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST, ROSS BLECKNER Do you work on one project at a time or several? I usually start a group of paintings in case I get bored of ne or I exhaust my interest in...
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