How do you know if you are the one inspiring or being inspired?

LIVE TO INSPIRE

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IDEAS AND CONCEPTS, ACRYLIC
BY JEAN HART
 



Inspire.

What moves you to the point that you must do something and then share it with someone?

Inspiring is doing something bold or courageous and then passing this high energy along to someone else.

How do you know if you are the one inspiring or being inspired?

I moved completely away from home at a tender age of 18. With no friends to a new city, college and barely no money.

Was that inspiring?

I married at 21 and again moved far from home to a city with no family or friends, with only $100.00 and no where to live.

Was that inspiring?

Being brave, vibrant, and as authentic as you can in living your life.

Yes, I think that's inspiring.

Telling how I left a job as a baker when I read a fortune cookie that said,

"Move in a different direction to begin your dream life".

Yes, that was inspired!

I hope that I don't just tell people about being inspired, I hope they are inspired by watching how I live my life. How sometimes taking a risk works out, being bold is exciting, taking chances makes your heart beat faster, by picking yourself up after a disappointment and moving forward after a good cry.

Keep moving forward...keep up the curiosity....keep the ideas and concepts coming.

I love this little abstract painting. It was my first atempt at painting concepts. Everytime I look at it I see something new. It Inspires Me.

Show yourself to the world.

Breathe in, breathe out.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Amazing Abstract artwork

Contempory artwork

 

This just proves how a viewer must bring their own experiences to a painting. How do you connect to this?????
Are you amazed, or bored?
Do you feel the energy?
Do you see the vision?
Abstract espressionist artwork brings the viewer into... the artwork work. It makes you part of the artwork.
I love this......I'm wondering how can I paint something so emotional?
Be Inspired,
~Jean
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A Rose

A Rose,
colored pencil by Jean Hart
Every flower you see, try to remember,
that before it bloomed,
it had to push it's way through,
a whole lot of dirt and darkness.
... Be Inspired,
~Jean
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A Rose, colored pencil, by artist Jean Hart

Are you feeling inside the circle, or do you hang outside the circle?

 

Blue Monday

Blue Monday, circles, by artist

Jean Hart

 

Circles, awe, what can I say about circles?

Circles are everywhere, mostly circles are about cycles. No ending, no beginning......

But not when you paint them. There is a beginning, and hopefully the ending,  if your lucky will match up with the beginning again.

Are you feeling inside the circle, or do you hang outside the circle?

My circle, your circle, inside the circle of trust, circle of friends....it goes on, on, and on....

Beware of running around inside the circle's, because a circle once inside can trap you in and hold you there.

I have painted a lot of circles. When I went through a period of mandala paintings. All the mandala paintings are circles.

Circles will make you crazy, but Mondays will make you manic.

 

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Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Earth, a vision

 

During the night, a spark came to me,,,,I could not sleep. It's always like that when I take up a new project. I got up and went to the studio and decieded that YES, this new art was worth exploring. So today I will continue on this path. I'm hoping to make a little book from these original fine art pieces......Be Inspired, ~Jean

 

EARTH,
11 X 14
COLORED PENCIL
JEAN ARTWORK
Meandering....the shortest distance between two points may not always be the straightest line...If you can sometimes its fun to travel on the bumpy, curvey and circle road.....I've changed the color of my first painting with the magic of editing and came up with more sutle tones. earthy tones. Somehow I think it's more interesting then the first orginal painting. But it no longer looks like a rose to me, but earth.
Be Inpsried,
~Jean

The Unbroken line

Technical Tuesday

Today's lesson is something I've pulled from a long ago art lesson I learned in junior high school.

Sometimes it's really fun to go back to those early days and return to lessons.

They have a new freedom to them once you get started.

This is called the unbroken line drawing.

1. With a pen, yes a pen, there is no erasing. Start anywhere on the page you like. But the pen must not lift up at any time.
2. Be free with this. I have shown a drawing of  a vase and flowers. The idea is that you can take your finger and follow this line throughout the whole painting.
3. If your happy with your drawing you can then start to color in the spaces.
4. I love this challenge, it gives me freedom to just create. There is no right or wrong way to do this. I think they look very modern and contemporary.
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7. Have fun with this. Once you start you will see that you can make all sorts of landscapes, still life, even portraits.
8. Can yoy remember the Etch-A Sketch? It is the same thing. You are working with one unbroken line. You may be surprised to learn that there are master artist who do nothing but draw on Etch-A Sketch's. Inside the case is aluminum powder and the knobs create a stylus. I had one of these as a kid. I spent hours working with it. But truly,  nothing I creating would ever be called a master piece. Just the same it created hours of fun.
9. Grab a drink and take some time to look at these amazing master pieces of artwork done with a Etch-A Sketch.
10. http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-900-s&va=etch+a+sketch+artwork
11. Have fun,
12. Be Inspired,
13. ~Jean
14. www.jeanhart@yahoo.com

Pink Saturday

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Happy Pink Saturday

I have been painting hearts for Valentines Day for a week..

The expression of love for all things not just for the people close to you seems almost too much for one day.

But here we go:

Hopefully, when changes come you are surrounded by those who love and support you.

Pause. Before all else, to say thank you, ask for help or even when saying I love you.

 

Remember, you have the strength and courage to get through whatever comes your way.

Fall In Love often

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Blue Monday-finding sublimity in our surroundings

Blue Monday

Rise and shine!

It's Monday.

Raise yourself out of the past and into a new day.

Look who has come to join me for breakfast.

It's hard to feel too blue when I look out my window and see this.

How can you not look at nature and not be inspired?

Walt Whitman said,"A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

What would the landscape look like without nature. Surely what would artists paint, photographers shoot or poets write about.

Here's a thought for today.

Without nature what would the major master pieces of artwork be?

Nature is everywhere, landscapes, seascapes, animals.

Now think, what is the rest of the artists painting if not nature?

My guess is the relationship people have to nature, abstract, man-made structures and feelings.

Nature has colors and shapes we can all relate to easily. Without too much thought we recognize trees, mountain, oceans.

A question for today,

Why do humans feel so moved and inspired by nature?

Today's challenge is for you to draw something in nature to moves you in an inspired way.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Jackson Pollock

Red and Black Hearts, Jean Hart, www.zazzle.com/jeanhar1*

It's about this time of year I start to think I should be paintings hearts for Valentines.

I gave myself a little challenge to paint for an exhibit called,

"I'm a Fool for Love"

It will be full of hearts and love and lots of emotion.

I came across this painting I did some years ago. It must have been during my Jackson Pollock period.

Viewing Jackson Pollock paintings you would think that he just leaves the paint to fly across the canvas with no real thought to where its going to land.

But, no, he paints with intention and his works are filled with cathartic emotions energy.

His techniques are from dripping, to splattering and pour paint onto the canvas. Sometimes he uses sand or glass to add texture to his paintings. Later his technique came to be known as Action Painting.

For me this technique was very hard. My mind would not let me be that free and my paintings ended up with recognizable shapes.

So today's challenge is to let yourself be free to drip, splatter, and pour.

It is lots of fun.

Be Inspired,
~Jean

P.S. Some of Jackson Pollocks most famous paintings are: The key, 1946, Number One, 1950 Greyed Rainbow, 1953

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