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“There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you’ve got it you’ve got it. When you haven’t you start over. All the rest is humbug” …
Read details“I take it as a spiritual blessing to have been given an artist’s soul and eyes to see in wonder and awe.” Bethany Fields As I was painting at the HUB yesterday during the “First Saturday” event, an elderly gentleman stood watching me. He had been…
Read details“I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.” Edgar Degas Sometimes we…
Read details“I think that when one is young it is the object, the outside world that fire’s one’s enthusiasm: one is carried away by it. In later life, it is something within himself, the need to express an emotion, that leads a painter to choose his point of departure, one form rather than another.” …
Read details“When we avoid our creativity, we avoid ourselves. When we meet our creativity, we meet ourselves.” Julia Cameron I meet so many people being out in the art world that say, “I am just not creative! I wish I could do that”! Yes, you are,…
Read details“Let the beauty we love be what we do”. Rumi I wrote last week about getting back our rhythm after an event that knocks us off our stride. I said that we should go back, and think about why we painted or created art in the first place…our “Artist Statement”. Mine, being the intricate…
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