Category: ayearofpainting2

“There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.” –James Thurber “Moonlight is sculpture.” –Nathaniel Hawthorne “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” –Maori Proverb Materials needed for this lesson: 1. A substrates of your choice. (I used a square wood panel in …

“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer — and what trees and seasons smelled like — how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.” –John Steinbeck “It is a …

“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” –Tina Fey “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” –Shannon L. Alder “I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing …

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” –Helen Keller “What matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it — a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.” –Italo Calvino “It takes two …

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”  –C Joybell C “You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and …

“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”  –Henry David Thoreau “It had to …

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”  –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.”  –Rebecca Pepper Sinkler “Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed …

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” –Paulo Coelho “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” –Maya Angelou “And now here …

“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts — such is the duty of the artist.” –Schumann “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” –Henri Matisse Materials needed for this lesson: 1. Watercolor paper or even mixed media paper that is suitable for inks and/or watercolors. 2. Your brushes of …

“We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” –Dr. Cornell West “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.” –Criss Jammi An image that the popular catalog Uncommon Goods used for their art blocks. Materials needed for …

“Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, …

“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.” –Coco Chanel “Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong.” –Catherine Zeta Jones Materials needed for …

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” –Edgar Allen Poe “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”  –Oscar Wilde “Throw your dreams into …

“Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.” –Pablo Picasso “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” –Edgar Degas “Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.” –Giotto di Bondone …

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” –André Gide “Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” –Wynetka Ann Reynolds “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” –Oscar …

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” –Alfred Tennyson “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice.” –TS Eliot “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book …