Posted in Know your Outcome on Mar 2nd, 2010
An essential step of being organized is by setting productive goals. Here are 5 very beneficial ways to accomplish your goals.
1. You will get more accomplished.
2. You will know in advance what is needed.
3. No more missed art club meetings.
4. A neat work space = greater creativity.
5. No more running here and there, taking time [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Feb 24th, 2010
On February 20, 2010, 5 artists met at my Valle of Yellow Creek Art Studio, located in the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, to learn more about the technique of painting wet into wet with watercolors.
At first glance wet into wet paintings appear to be an easy way to paint. One should just [...]
Posted in Artist Inspiration on Jan 28th, 2010
If you think you are not creative your thoughts will be telling you “I can’t, but the creative mind will be spurring you on telling you “I can, and here’s how I’ll make it happen.
Posted in Learning to paint on Jan 8th, 2010
The variety of our paintings is dependent on many factors.
These are some areas of variety could be described as variety of shape, variety of tone values, variety in edge shapes, variety in texture and a variety in graduation.
Each of these elements has a rhythmic quality of its own and it’s a long list.
The [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Dec 13th, 2009
These lines signify solidity in the foundations of paintings.
The combination of horizontal and vertical lines as in the Cross. The Cross is a combination of lines that instantly rivets the attention, and probably has the most powerful effect upon the mind that could ever have been devised.
These lines and others help paintings have a natural [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Dec 11th, 2009
In this drawing lesson we learn of horizontal and vertical boundary lines.
Horizontal and vertical lines are very important in rectangular pictures, as they unite the composition to its boundary lines by their parallel relationship.
As a contrast to the richness and beauty of curves they are of great value and are often used for this purpose.
Horizontal [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Dec 9th, 2009
A perfect line has no artistic music.
There are two lines that have the least variation and they are the perfectly straight line and a circle. A perfectly straight line obviously has no variety at all. And, the circle, by curving at exactly the same ratio all around, has no variation of curvature. It is of [...]
Posted in Subjects other than art on Dec 7th, 2009
Now and then I like to depart from the normal flow of my blog to speak of other subjects that are dear to me. This post is one of those times.
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Maya Angelou
To keep on singing is a hard, hard [...]
Posted in Artist Inspiration on Nov 21st, 2009
Without a definite goal for your creativity during the holidays, you may find yourself going along with someone else’s plans. Go with your own creativity and find what’s what right for you
Posted in Learning to paint on Nov 10th, 2009
Rhythm can best be described as a” movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent or the like.” Dictionary.com.
From 1906 until 1908 there was a Symbolist artist association in Moscow. They emphasised color as a ‘tonal’ medium to construct rhythm in a painting and the elimination of shape and contour. Their [...]
