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May62017
Collage by FL artist Carolyn Land

What is Essential?

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”                                  Hans Hoffman How many times have we said: “I should have stopped and hour ago” or “I wish I had not put that in.” …

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Apr292017
Pastel painting by FL artist Carolyn Land

Finding Commonality

  “Creation is the artist’s true function: where there is no creation there is no art.”                 Henri Matisse   Art is about telling our story.  We each have a different story; colored by past experiences.  Even children from the same family, who experience the same event, will…

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Apr152017
Water color lift painting by FL artist Carolyn land

Aha Moments!

“I believe in an unconscious.  So, it’s possible to say that something causes something and you’re not aware of it.  You just do what you do.”                                                          …

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Apr12017
acrylic painting by FL artist Carolyn Land

Your Unique Perspective

“I paint as I feel like painting…An artist has to be spontaneous.”       Edouard Manet We have been discussing getting into our right brain so we can allow our creative spirit to flow.  I read a quote this past week from Victor Frankl’s, “Mans Search for Meaning”.  “Don’t aim at success…the more you aim at it…

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