Where does your art come from? The actual thought process, the act of putting it down on a surface, the creation.
Are you beyond just making pretty, random pictures? Or is your art the authentic you that comes from the heart?
Your background, the life you have lead, holds the key to your creative powers. Were you always drawn to the woods......or maybe the city? The family that has a history of musicians, or maybe people that were close to the land in some way, are all part of you and will give you the key to authentic art.
It can be more recent in your life.....perhaps you have spent years studying local or pioneer history, or have had a hobby that has been ongoing for a long time, or experienced a life event. How can you weave this into your art?
A lot of questions that only you can answer.
Art is truth telling.
Giving credit to the person that puts these ideas into my head.....Lisa Lepine, Consultant to Creatives. llpromo@gmail.com
In this trying time, many artists are doing smaller pieces......I am, too. But let me introduce you to a piece that just had to be done. Probably not in the category of small. As it was being created, it was known far and wide to friends as the "Big Honkin' Painting" or BHP.....it has a new name now.
"Earth Elements" oil 30x40" $2800
As I drove along a river in a remote area last Thanksgiving day, I was marveling at the look and feel of a late fall
landscape.
The bare branches of trees against a brilliant blue winter sky, on a perfectly still day. The kind of day where even the wide, moving river was without a ripple in the glassy surface.
Turning the bend in the road, these clumps of poofy grasses shone like a beacon with almost an inner glow.
The towering cliffs along this scenic river took nothing away from these jewels.
With the contrasting soft grass and the depth and liquidity of the green water against the large sharp-edged boulders, I knew this scene would make it onto a canvas. And it just couldn't be a small one, either.
Sometimes it isn't the grand vistas that inspire us, but the small details of our encounters with life.
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Keep Coloring Outside the Lines,
Sandra
