I was listening to my audiobook this morning on Creativity. The author interviewed many creative people from many disciplines. He said that creativity could not occur without first mastering the domain in which the creative person works. In other words, unless you know your subject, you cannot add to it. It's the same thing with painting. You can't master the discipline of … [Read more...]
Walking with God
There is a neat part of Genesis where God and Adam are walking together around the world. This passage, by the way, helps explain what artists do. Or instead what artists do not do. So from the soil Yahweh God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give … [Read more...]
Finding serenity in a chaotic world.
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. - Saul Bellow We live in chaotic times. It seems like the whole world is out of control. What's worse -- there is little … [Read more...]
All aboard!
Laurie and I were talking the other day about our love of model trains. I shared some stories of the train set my dad bought me for Christmas when I was six or seven. On reflection, he, most likely, bought the train set for himself. I happened to be a handy excuse at the time. Every Christmas we would set up the train set under the Christmas tree. Every year he would buy … [Read more...]
Hungry to Learn!
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A happy mood!
Creating beautiful art is one way you can honor yourself. It's a way you can begin to change how you think about yourself. We're here to help. Click here to learn about Master Class. … [Read more...]
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