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carolyn land
Jan 28, 20172 min read
Open Yourself to Individual Expression
“Every good artist paints what he is.” Jackson Pollock There is only one you in all of...
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carolyn land
Jan 21, 20172 min read
The Dialogue
“I’ll take weeks out doing drawings, watercolor studies, I may never use. I’ll throw them in a backroom, never look at them again or...
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carolyn land
Jan 14, 20172 min read
Putting Your Best Foot Forward
“Technique must be solid, positive, but elastic, must not fall into formula, must adapt itself to the idea. And for each new idea there...
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carolyn land
Dec 31, 20163 min read
Resolutions You Can Keep
“An artist has to train his responses more than other people do…He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a...
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carolyn land
Dec 23, 20162 min read
Finding Your Spark!
“The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other...
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carolyn land
Dec 17, 20162 min read
The Gift of Creativity
“The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human...
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carolyn land
Dec 10, 20162 min read
Possibilities
“I grant you the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotions reveal to him the hidden truths beneath...
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carolyn land
Dec 3, 20161 min read
Finding the Right Materials
“The scholar specialized in any field will find that the more he knows, the more he will have to learn…” Alberto Giacometti We have a...
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carolyn land
Nov 26, 20162 min read
Trying to Find Order
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together”. John Ruskin An artist’s work reflects who...
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carolyn land
Nov 19, 20162 min read
Am I Good Enough?
“Use all the talents you have now – don’t wait until you have ‘gotten better’. The forest would be very quiet if only the best birds...
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carolyn land
Nov 11, 20163 min read
It’s All in Your Attitude
“All art, literature and music must be brought forth with your heart’s blood.” Edward Munch Teaching is an...
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carolyn land
Nov 4, 20162 min read
Freedom to Paint Again
“Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange, hostile world and us, a way of...
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carolyn land
Oct 28, 20162 min read
When the Creative Spirit Gets Dampened
“When it Rains it Pours.” Morton Salt Company It started...
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carolyn land
Oct 14, 20161 min read
The Artists Journey
“The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see.” Edgar Degas I want to start by saying no good artist ever...
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carolyn land
Sep 30, 20161 min read
How Important is Composition?
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance” Aristotle “Times Bounty A reader...
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carolyn land
Sep 23, 20162 min read
Principles of Good Design
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements at the painters disposal for the expression of his...
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carolyn land
Sep 16, 20162 min read
Out of Your Comfort Zone
“Imagination makes you see all kinds of things” Georgia O’Keeffe If...
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carolyn land
Sep 10, 20162 min read
Abstracting
“As for what I am making now, perhaps it’s art; but it isn’t, it is at least equally interesting to me.” ...
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carolyn land
Sep 2, 20162 min read
Notes on Failing
“Talent does not declare itself in an instant. It is not at the first attempt that one has the honesty to admit one’s inabilities. How...
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carolyn land
Aug 26, 20162 min read
Making Things Original
“It is all very well to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what one no longer sees except in memory. A transformation is...
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