Embrace Your Emotions: Celebrate the Beauty Within! Art offers a safe haven for self-expression, enabling us to communicate and process our emotions in a non-judgmental space. Our emotions are a reflection of our authenticity and depth. Let's create a space where we honor and embrace our diverse emotions. Share one word that describes how you're feeling today, and let's celebrate our shared human experience!
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Artists should pursue their dreams. Create their best artwork without the fear of financial failure. Viewing and owning art evokes emotions that cleanse one's soul. Those emotions express our inner truth, define our shared humanity, and drive our human nature. Therefore, human emotions enrich our lives, relationships, and self-perception with profound meaning and depth, primarily found through meaningful art.
Human emotions are an intrinsic part of our existence, shaping our perceptions, experiences, and connections. Art, in its myriad forms, has a unique ability to tap into the depths of these emotions and provide a nurturing space for their expression and exploration.
Art has the profound capacity to evoke and amplify our emotions. Through vivid brushstrokes, captivating melodies, or thought-provoking performances, art can ignite a range of feelings within us. It serves as a mirror, reflecting our joys, sorrows, fears, and hopes back to us, inviting us to delve deeper into the tapestry of our emotional landscape.
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time to paint and draw this week!
ok, so i pulled my paints out to try with my new sharpie pen that promises not to bleed and is permanent. Here is a B&W sorry for the blur didn't keep the camera straight:
then the colored version, which by the way was not an easy task! 
I personally like the b&w...
Long ago I read this book THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING by John Ruskin you can find it at DOVER PRESS. It made a huge impact on me as a wannabe artist. He spoke of practicing, sketching from nature, color and compostion and so many things to study. One of the quotations I love from his is this:
WHEN WE BUILD LET US THINK WE BUILD FOREVER.This has been a thread of truth that has helped me in all things: moving, rebuilding, career choice and most of all ART. More on Ruskin's view on art later. Or you can go to Amalgamarts Blog: http://amalgamarts.blogspot.com/
today this is what i feel. somehow my artistic eye sees things that are disturbing and it affects me emotionally. it's hard to stay above waves of depression. creative expression through art and writing is my cure, my medicine. it saves me from unhealthy addiction.
I like Macaroni Grill - they hand you crayons at the table covered by large pieces of white paper. the waitress/waiter draws their name usually upside down, using 2-3 crayons and with fancy swirls... yesterday i went again. this time with a family and their 4 children who immediately began to draw all the things they knew how to draw. symbols from video games, bunnies, hawks with mice in beak, cartoonish faces, scribbles and scratches. they took all the colors leaving me with only green and blue. did you ever notice that there are only four colors at Macaroni Grill? RED, BLUE, GREEN & PURPLE....i end up having to think monochromatically with everything i draw: grapes which happen to be purple, bread which is green and blue, even the wine can be done with blue-purple-red... sometime i long for black and brown. i sit there as an adult wishing i could have all my colors with me. at least a box of eight, preferably a box of 24, ad definitely in heaven with a 96 count. having said this, i think i will write a comment to the MG about their color selection. Of course they want to keep in thematic with Italian, and their logos. but real artists (even children artists) like to have more colors. I found a link where I can leave suggestions... CLICK HERE TO TELL MACARONI GRILL
Tell the TWO things: ONE add at least a black and brown... TWO when there is great art left at the table, take a digital shot and give us a place to post it online.
I'd go there often just to color before I eat! A bonus would be to save the art somewhere on their site...
May 15 -21 ... Travel to Madrid, Spain compliments of my company Avon. We stayed at the Westin Palace Hotel across the street from the Prado Museum and 15 minutes from the Renia Sofia where Picasso's Guernica rests. Madrid captivated me from the peek outside the airplane window. It seemed like a story book with fields cut out like patchwork, villages swirling down from hilltops, and wonderful clouds breaking deep sky blue. Driving through the city all the buildings, streets, and parks were muse for creative senses. there is life: cafe`s, sidewalks and squares filled with the young, old and all in between. Musicians, actors, beggars, all working their mojo for even the smallest EURO coin. if the buildings were exquisite on the outside, being inside was even better! Marble of all color, sculpture, every detail filled with artistic finery and decor. The hotel Westin hung Frieda, Monet, and Warhol in their hallways. Truly the unspoken CELEBRITY of this world are the painters, sculptors and photographers, not to mention architectural artisans.
finally the week winds down and i have two whole days to stir up the creativity and art within and perhaps finish a work or two. I am always hanging in the balance between real world work and the dream of working full time artist. it causes interesting tension and chronic desire to shut out the world for that secret garden of artistic license. the choice to work despite lack of time works. simply staying in contact with the blogs, website and having supplies out forces the creative edge on ones life. no one can deny the gift within for too long without it spilling out somewhere!
just found a watercolorist/illustrator on artwanted - James Mann. viewed all of his works and commented on 13 of his 32. I think it best with this site to find artists and leave words for many of their works rather than just one. this way it pulls the collective style and works into view for others to see. PLUS I get rewarded with viewing so many at a time. it's good to also stimulate the word side of my brain in writing comments. i'll blog the next artist chosen for my slide run of comments when one is found...
