Your paintings are the windows to your soul. Your paintings express your inner feelings in a way words can not. What do your paintings say? Alexander Art will help you release the poetry in your soul. Alexander Art will help you turn your paintings into a symphony. People will look. Then look again. And never quite figure out what's different. Alexander … [Read more...]
What’s your journey?
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." -- T.S. Eliott George Lucas' film "Star Wars" is the archetypical story of the Hero's Journey. If you follow the exploits of Luke Skywalker in the above graphic, you'll see each step of the adventure he took. In fact, it's almost … [Read more...]
Reduce distractions
How does an artist guide the viewer through a painting? Too many distractions and you'll lose the viewer. The picture will confuse them, and they will move on. Oops... missed that sale! Sometimes you will want to have distractions to add interest to the painting. You need to think about what you are doing, though. Many paintings contain objects placed with little or no … [Read more...]