Feel like experimenting—finding a different way to create and evaluate your art work? Harmony/balance is one of the principles of designing. It is also the goal of Feng Shui. When we were building our new home in SC, I decided to use some Feng Shui principles as we designed and decorated and I applied these principles to the artwork that went into some of the rooms. That’s when I found out how much fun it was to plan a design...

I have heard over and over from judges and workshop teachers that a painting or work of art needs to “tell a story”.  I keep asking myself, “exactly what kind of story?”  Now if I paint people walking on the beach or children building a sand castle—I have a story.  But what about a beautiful floral or a wildlife portrait or an abstract —how do I tell a story here? Recently in “American Watercolor”, author Kelly Kane quoted master painter...

I’m glad you’re here to spark your creativity! For the last two issues of our ArtSpeak blog we have been exploring our creative connections—finding our best creative selves. If you missed the first two parts of the Creative Connections series, just click the following link and you can catch up! Creative Connections - Passion and Flow In this issue let’s talk about the last two words: FOCUS and RISK. The word focus may seem to be at odds with the...

Our “ART SPEAK” blog has been discussing creativity. Creativity can mean to arrange old into new forms, give birth to a new realism, or a new way of thinking, acting, and behaving.  Our Creative Connections series is delving into creativity through the five words: play, passion, flow, focus, and risk.  We have talked about play (see last blog) so let’s talk about PASSION AND FLOW and how they can affect your creativity. The PASSION you have for creating shows in...