Tag: art inspiration
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Seeing More Clearly?
Artists do see more clearly than others but it has nothing to do with eyesight.
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The Mission of Art
The real misión of art is touching and healing hearts, and bringing joy and beauty to our world.
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Timeless Appeal
Cardinals never grow old as an artist’s subject. People love cardinals. They always will.
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Shining the Artistic Light
One of the most rewarding things about teaching art workshops is the wonder of how unique artistic talent is to each individual. I don’t teach workshops where everybody expects to paint the same thing and have them all come out looking like a row of cookie cutter canvases. The freedom for each artist to express […]
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Art and Soul
Realizing all art came from a Creator much bigger than us little humans forced me to look at art in a way I never had before.
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Crashing Tales
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” Coco Chanel (from The Painter’s Keys) One writer sees the culture of creative people as “crashing” leading him to lament about the state of the current art world. He believes artists are seen as “cultural elites” “idle dreamers” or “self-indulgent parasites.” […]
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Persistence to Transformation
A rubber chicken becomes a beautiful hummingbird! One of the most wonderful parts of teaching painting workshops is when you get to be in on a magical transformation. This past Saturday’s workshop participants, like so many other workshops, consisted of a mix of the never painted before, rusty haven’t painted in years, and experienced artists expanding […]
