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carolyn land
Aug 19, 20162 min read
Simplify, Simplify
“Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away…making lines run into each other is not...
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carolyn land
Aug 12, 20162 min read
How Long Does It Take to Create a Painting?
“Painting is manual labor, no different from any other: it can be done well, or poorly” George Gross Many viewers...
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carolyn land
Aug 6, 20162 min read
Playing it Safe
“I’m always saying to myself: ‘that is not right yet. You can do better’. It is rare when I can prevent myself from taking a thing up...
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carolyn land
Jul 30, 20162 min read
Energy Flow
” The mystical will always be with us…A whole mass of things that cannot be rationalized…new born thoughts that are not properly formed”...
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carolyn land
Jul 23, 20162 min read
Am I Done?
“The skilled hand is never anything but the servant of the mind…Even if the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled...
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carolyn land
Jul 15, 20162 min read
The Viewer
“I truly believe artwork does not exist without the viewer. As an artist you have to let go—something happens that you are not a part of...
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carolyn land
Jul 8, 20162 min read
Creative Overload
Into the Clearing ( relief print) “I think that when one is young it is the object, the outside world that fires one’s...
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carolyn land
Jul 1, 20162 min read
The Daunting White “Canvas”
“I have two or three days of some real dismal dragging around hoping that something will get together and strike a spark.” ...
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carolyn land
Jun 24, 20162 min read
How Do You Approach a Painting?
“The word ‘composition’ moved me spiritually, and I later made it my aim in life to paint a ‘composition’. It affected me like a prayer...
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carolyn land
Jun 17, 20162 min read
The Artists Statement
” It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to caress his canvas too.” Pierre Auguste Renoir I would like to...
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carolyn land
Jun 11, 20162 min read
What Lies Beneath
“One must detect and capture the artifices of the great masters, but shrug off all restraint in front of nature and represent it solely...
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