Impact and the need to create
Continuing with the theme of how art is created. I figured it wouldn’t hurt to show a work just created - "Spinach Harvest". Pieces on the blog won’t necessarily appear for purchase immediately on the website, but are being offered as something fresh and hopefully insightful.
Surrounding my home are agriculture […]
Art from Concept
Above is an image of a very recent work entitled "Experimental Fields". It came about in a slightly different way. I was creating a piece which I was in the middle of and felt the urge to put plastic over a section of the fields.
Plastic has been all around me these days. […]
Use of color & unique perspective sets work apart
The anniversary of Paul Cézanne’s death is this coming Saturday. Why I know this shall remain a mystery. The above images are from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and were chosen 1)because their size was appropriate for this weblog and they are good pieces in terms of my personal view […]
Building on positives, Creating from strengths
Years ago, when I taught tennis and played it competitively; I had the privilege of hearing one of the most well known instructors of the time and perhaps still, Dennis Van Der Meer. One of the stories he told has stuck with me to this day. He relayed the story of a […]
Problem Solving, Self Esteem & Awareness, Feeling Alive
With a blog about promoting the creative world, it is probably about time I address the most fundamental question of why creativity is so important. Creativity is the place we find ourselves, see ourselves, and solve problems on our own.
In an article, in yesterday’s Aberdeen News, the author […]
Sharing, Participating, Interacting Fuel Creativity
Though many times it seems that artists find ideas and create in their own world, it is truly not the case that any of us live in a vacuum. In an article in the Metronews(article now gone)one of the participants of a think tank for designers is quoted as saying, "Creative […]
Art, Ugly & Beautiful, Aesthetic Crossroads
One of the things I enjoy in viewing art, creating art, and interpreting the world - is the cusp between ugly and beauty. We take as common place the expression - " so ugly he’s cute" - but much of the world is the same way. So much so that […]
Relative Color, Race, Complementary Color, Possibility
Color is probably my favorite thing in art and in seeing. It has incredible wisdom in it. Color only has color because of what it is next to. It is completely relative and changing with the colors that are found next to it. It demands to be communal by its […]
