Creative Warm Up: A Scavenger Hunt for the Elements and Principles of Art
Last week I spoke about warm up exercises as a means to get back into your creative groove. This week I share one for visual artists, or those who want to learn more about art and art analysis. The big questions for today: What are the words that we use to discuss...
Is Art a Skill Or Talent? Breaking the Art Myth.
Art is a skill, not just a talent. This is a topic I’ve been passionate about for years, and the idea that art is solely about talent drives me up the wall. In schools parents use the art as talent justification to argue their kids deserve higher grades if they...
How to Talk about Art – a Visual
For those visual learners out there, a visual journey of basic art analysis! Feel free to use it to help your students or others, but please share with them Artist Strong and credit my effort. BE COURAGEOUSLY CREATIVE: Practice this on your favorite visual. Do you...
Enhancing Creative Process
Process is so important to the act of creation… It is those steps we take to reach a creative product, to achieve a creative goal, or to realize the creative importance of something we do that make our creative process. And while I believe creative process can...
How To Look At An Artwork
Many people I know want specific instruction on “reading” artwork. They know that art generates in them a certain emotion or idea but don’t always know how it gets there, or why a particular emotion is stronger than another. I already wrote a post on discussing art,...
Sharpen Your Skills: Understanding Value
Confidently use value to improve your art
If you want to draw or paint anything you want, understanding value is a MUST.
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