Tag: Education
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Weekend Inspiration–App, App and Away
“Draw everywhere and all the time. An artist is a sketchbook with a person attached.” Irwin Greenberg (from The Painter’s Keys) Suppose you are out and about without a sketchbook when suddenly the urge to draw strikes. It’s in your head but you need to record it. What can you do? This moment may never…
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Felt or Flat
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, but must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller (from Skinnyartist) If a painting, a piece of music, a poem, a story, a performance, a photograph is so beautiful it touches the heart, it is considered a great work of…
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Artfully Senseless
“Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.” Leonardo da Vinci (from The Art of Artificial Evolution) Does participation in the arts increase knowledge? Since the publication of “The Mozart Effect” study, scientists have been asking this question. Artists already know…
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Weekend Inspiration–Block Medicine
“Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up.” Chuck Close (About.com/painting) Artist’s block is a subject worth repeating because we all go through it. Each time it rears its ugly head is a cue to seek some kind, any kind of solution that will break the back of the evil block. There could…
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Gallery Medicine
“Art galleries should be apothecaries of our deeper self.” Alain de Botton A growing body of research is revealing what artists have long known. There is healing in art. As more research is conducted more will be known. Medical and nursing schools are beginning to incorporate more arts in curriculum. Even though artists know of…
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Sketching Knowledge
“Look into Nature, then you will understand it better.” Albert Einstein, (from A.S.L. & Associates) A growing body of research is suggesting students may learn science more effectively by using their imaginations through various forms of art expression. Doodling, drawing, collage, and sketchbooking are all methods students can use as vehicles for creative learning. Art…
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Say What?????
“Any sort of pretension produces mediocrity in life and in art.” Margot Fonteyn (from brainy quotes) While walking around at a large art exhibit, (see “Voices”), my friend and I overheard various comments and opinions on the art. One conversation left us so puzzled that it continues to produce a smile even now. It was…
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Sketchlife
“You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.” John Singer Sargent (from Brainyquotes) Sketching is vital to developing artistic vision. For some artists it requires focus and discipline. For others, sketching is the artistic vision. As sketching evolves by the hand of the later, it gains an energy and drama…
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Attachment Syndrome
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (from Goodreads.com) Many artists become attached to paintings. Each painting is a self -portrait in a sense, regardless of subject. Creating a work can feel almost like birthing a child. It’s…
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The Courage to Paint
“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” Georgia O’Keeffe Was O’Keeffe right? Does art take courage? Painting takes time, effort and energy. But is courage behind the time, effort and energy? Courage is perhaps the necessary force for getting art out of the studio and into the public domain. Is it…