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Jun172017
Acrylic painting by FL artist Carolyn land

Inter-Connected

“Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration can only give birth to a work of art.  The least of man’s original emanations is better than the best of borrowed thoughts.”                                              Albert Pinkham Ryder A…

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Jun42017
Pastel painting by FL artist Carolyn Land

Your Purpose for Painting

  “The work of a man is the explanation of the man.”                                                 Paul Gauguin I have written many times about having an “Artist Statement”, which tells people what motivates you, the artist, to paint.  For emerging artists, this is “good food for thought”, and an excellent exercise to undertake.  It helps you zero in on…

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May202017
Acrylic painting by FL artis Carolyn Land

I am Done for Now…

” Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel:  everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them…It is at such moments that one realizes one’s own weaknesses.”         Eugene Delacroix                                   Several…

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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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