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“Embark on a hunt, with no specific quarry in mind except that it should be an object, either human-made or naturally occurring, whose features in some fashion ‘speak’ to you. Don’t concern yourself...
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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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” One of my favorite people in history is Philo Farnsworth. Forced to move from their home in Utah, his family settled in Idaho, where Philo reluctantly spent his time helping his father plow their...
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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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“Creativity emanates 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 problem. An...
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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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” When Philip Guston was asked how he decided what he was going to do next, he replied that sometimes he would try something he’d never seen before.. Or you could go just partway in this direction and...
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” Why is it that dexterity, knowledge of art, and taste do not necessarily add up to what we seek in art? What ingredient is missing whose presence would make the work throb with vitality and invite...
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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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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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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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Media are things that transform thought into action. All things when moved from the domain of thought to the physical domain exist in time, place, substance, and movement. Every medium therefore...
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MEDIA IN THE SERVICE OF EXPRESSION (CONT.) We could take another trite and overused material- feathers , for example-and retrieve their potential as transformative devices. Think of the Native...
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TO “KNOCK ON SILENCE” ” I have not worked at all….. Nothing seems worth putting down – I seem to have nothing to say – It appalls me but that is the way it is . - Georgia O’Keefe ” Just dash something...
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ORIGINALITY AND STYLE Now we should consider the difficult question of how to be original. You’ve doubtless been told there is nothing that hasn’t been done already – or as Herman Melville, recalling...
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“Remember when you were three or four years old and you would just scribble or smear paint around for the fun of it? At this time in your life, you were totally absorbed in the creative process, and...
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” Key works in every field draw upon the wisdom of seemingly unrelated disciplines. Charles Eames learned how to mold plywood under heat and pressure while working at a naval shipyard, and later...
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