Something to think about, something to create

Something to think about.

Question?

 

Salvador Dali created a famous tree structure in Paris, made from?

A. Bread dough

B. Chocolate

C. Marzipan paste

D. Spoons

 

Answer:

A. Bread Dough

Boulangerie Poilane has at times accepted art as payment for food, including the carbo-rich tree concocted by Salvador Dali. The bakery, on rue du Cherche Midi, is famous not just for sourdough country bread and apple tarts but for the works of art that adorn its halls and walls.

Oh, I bet the bread tastes better then anything I can get in the grocery store here.

My Challenge to you is :

Make a creative tree out of bread dough like Salvador Dali did, or better yet, make some wonderful art creation of your own.

I would love to see what you come up with.

Here is the Boulangerie Poilane, take a tour,

 

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-900-1-s&va=boulangerie+poilane+paris

 

Be Inspired,

~jean

www.zazzle.com/jeanhar1*

September's Blue Moon

owl blue moon, jean hart

September

This month took its name from its earlier position in the calendar. September, Latin for seventh month. It became the ninth month when Julius Caesar changed the calendar and made January the first month.

Full moon: Harvest Moon

Universal event: Autumn Equinox, nature comes into balance

Message: To create, to prosper, to appreciate

Activity: Arts, crafts, courting future mates

Healing properties: Prevention through tonics

Color: Brown

Tree: Hazel

Flower: Aster

Creature: Snake

Gen: Sapphire.

September comes with lots of learning for me this fall. I have signed up to take classes at my local college.

My Blue Moon mail art program in Romania is due by the 15th.

I'm still working on my studio...on going project......but each day brings clearing, cleaning and making room for new creations.

Enjoy September

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Technical Tuesday still life

 

TECHNICAL TUESDAY

 

 

well technically this will not be a "Technical " instruction day.

Mothers Day is coming up and so I have started to paint flowers.

I went to my local craft store and found drawing paper in 5 x 7 pads. I thought wow, this is great, they were already cut for me, in canvas for acrylic, pastel and colored pencil.

I brought out all my colored pencils and started to put together a little still life of flowers.

Today you will be doing the same.

Really think about what kind of flowers YOU LIKE. I find it easier if you like what you are going to draw.

I start with the size and shape of the vase.

pencil in the flower placement.

Pick out a color scheme that is complementary.

I usually work from top to bottom, and with pencil front to back.

Meaning that my background is usually the last thing I draw.

Have fun with this, it's not meant to be hard.

For me this whole painting was imaginary, but if you need to look at something by all means bring out your flower photos.

Have Fun,

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Technical Tuesday

Technical Tuesday

The days are getting longer and as they do I want to be outside more and more. That means that I have less time in the studio. I have found that if you make a committment to a regular time to do your exercises this time  while become time you look forward to and enjoy.
Today we will be drawing a parrot, by Eileen Sorg.

Apply yellow around the eyes and beak. fill in the pupils and other areas of the eyes with a dark, warm gray, leaving highlights in each eye. Apply this color over the beak, varying the pressure and leaving some areas white to suggest shape. Also stroke in the darks around the beak and within the feathers.

Fill in the irises with red-orange. Then apply bright green to most of the feathers and deepen the beak with black.

fill in the rest of the feathers with teal, overlapping the bright green in places. fill in the pupils cleaving highlights and the holes above the beak with black.




TECHNICAL TUESDAY

TECHNICAL TUESDAY

Today we will make a quick drawing of a snail. This exercise comes from Ed Tadem.

As an artist I draw everyday. My exercises are small. Just something in pencil. These quick studies are not meant to be framed but to loosen up my fingers and hand. I sometimes just start with swirls on the page, lines, criss crosses and when I'm ready I will get out a clean paper and start an exercise.

I like this exercise because circles are hard and the more you practise them the more they become balanced. Do not try for perfection with this exercise, more just let you pencil flow.

• Draw a misshapen circle for the shell; then add the neck, head, and tentacles.
• refine the basic shapes, defining the tentacles and adding the spiral pattern to the shell. Indicate a slime trail.
• continue refining shapes and begin shading, adding radial lines and spots to the shell. Build up the darks, deepening the shading and creating the ridged texture of the shell. And he's off.
• After I completed my exercise I continued by bring in some color with my color pencils.
• Have fun with this.
• 

   
• Be Inspired,
• ~Jean
• www.zazzle.com/jeanhar1*
 
 

Where do the invaluable mental powers of creativity and imagination come from?

How is the imagination involved in experiences of art?

"The world is but a canvas to the imagination."

Henry David Thoreau

Creativity, where does it come from? Creativity is used to come up with new ideas, making it possible for us to connect dots and conception. Does it come from a mystical energy, metaphoric or intellect? Creativity and imagination both are of the same mind. Left brain, right brain, for me working together creates a new body of work. Often just a spark of an idea can take off by expanding through the thought process. I like to ask the questions, "What if...?'  What if I use a different color, size, shape. All of that goes into building  one idea that can change the whole concept of a painting.

Now, once the painting is completed, I find that the "Title" is where the explanation of the painting comes in. I do not like to explain more then the title to people. By saying anything more limits the experience that people are having with the painting.

It's important for people to have their own dialog with the painting.

Today's Challenge is from

"The Artist's Muse"

"Place an assortment of found objects on the surface of your paper. Use, rice, metal rings, keys, spaghetti, and interesting shapes. Spray around these objects with gesso watered down to the consistency of skim milk. Let dry. Use this as the surface for your painting."

 

Now let your mind wonder and stretch to build up a interesting painting of your own creation using your imagination.

Have fun with this.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

www.zazzle.com/jeanhar1*

Matt Hart Made the newspaper

Matt made the newspaper!
I am so proud of him.
Please enjoy his story.
http://elkodaily.com/lifestyles/the-art-of-folding-origami-grows-into-more-than-a/article_649a0c98-6739-11e2-8f9f-001a4bcf887a.html?fb_action_ids=3752018939596&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_ref=.UQRf61ZFkR0.like&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582