2012 NOVEMBER BLOG
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My latest painting is entitled THINGS FLYING (20" x 20" oil on canvas) and it is another in the Nature and Geometry series. Another title might be "Freedom and Structure."
Our Creative Workshop is having its last session Wednesday Nov. 14th. Laura and I are so proud of the work that the participants did. We produced a booklet of the stories and poems that were submitted to be included. The success of the group can be measured by their willingness to be vulnerable and by their support of one another. When one writes, paints or offers whatever they have created in the name of art, it is often difficult or downright scary. A book by David Bayles and Ted Orland, ART AND FEAR, addresses this. I recommend it to all who are beginning to make art. We are born creative but often our creativity is suppressed. We must find time to discover and a space to react to what we have seen and what we can know that wants to be expressed in whatever way we choose.
In our wrap-up session we will talk about continuing what we have begun. We will discuss resources that are available. Then it will be up to each person to carry on the good work that was begun. There is a story in the aforementioned book that I would like to paraphrase.
From ART AND FEAR:
A ceramics teacher divided the class into two groups. One group was told that they would be graded solely on the quantity of the work they produced. The other, would be graded solely on the quality and the group only needed to produce one perfect pot to get an A. Grading time came and the works of highest quality were all produced by the "quantity " group. They had churned out piles of work learning from their mistakes while the other group had sat theorizing about perfection. All the "quality" group had was grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
I had written in my paper back ART AND FEAR book, Just do it!
My latest painting is entitled THINGS FLYING (20" x 20" oil on canvas) and it is another in the Nature and Geometry series. Another title might be "Freedom and Structure."Our Creative Workshop is having its last session Wednesday Nov. 14th. Laura and I are so proud of the work that the participants did. We produced a booklet of the stories and poems that were submitted to be included. The success of the group can be measured by their willingness to be vulnerable and by their support of one another. When one writes, paints or offers whatever they have created in the name of art, it is often difficult or downright scary. A book by David Bayles and Ted Orland, ART AND FEAR, addresses this. I recommend it to all who are beginning to make art. We are born creative but often our creativity is suppressed. We must find time to discover and a space to react to what we have seen and what we can know that wants to be expressed in whatever way we choose.
In our wrap-up session we will talk about continuing what we have begun. We will discuss resources that are available. Then it will be up to each person to carry on the good work that was begun. There is a story in the aforementioned book that I would like to paraphrase.
From ART AND FEAR:
A ceramics teacher divided the class into two groups. One group was told that they would be graded solely on the quantity of the work they produced. The other, would be graded solely on the quality and the group only needed to produce one perfect pot to get an A. Grading time came and the works of highest quality were all produced by the "quantity " group. They had churned out piles of work learning from their mistakes while the other group had sat theorizing about perfection. All the "quality" group had was grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
I had written in my paper back ART AND FEAR book, Just do it!
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