Inspiration for Creative Process in the New Year
The New Year always has new potential. In many ways, it offers you an opportunity to start off on a clean slate so here are some inspirational ideas for filling your mind with creative ideas, as discovered on Feeling Fuzzy, The Creative Process Explained and through Rory O’Sullivan and Simon Bruyn’ video called, Rethink Scholarship at Langara. Although this video is from the start of 2010, coincidentally enough, I think it is a timeless approach to creative thinking. The innovative way it is described here, makes it all the more memorable. Because I like the music, although I don’t know what it is, I’ll keep it for Kick Starting the…
Morman Murals
What a great way to start the New Year by our appreciation of Nature. These beautiful Nature murals can be found in the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple (photo below). Some early art missionaries, Lorus Pratt, John B. Fairbanks, John Hafen and Edwin Evans and later Elder Herman H. Haag, set off to learn mural painting from ateliers in Paris and returned in the 1890’s to apply what they learned to paint murals in their Morman Temple in Salt Lake City. Following this similar missionary goal, artist Linda Curley Christensen along with other faithful workers have used their God-given talents to paint this Nature mural in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. They…
Painting Winter Woods
If you’re stuck inside, with all this winter snow, this step-by-step process of how to paint snow in the winter woods is a great instructional exercise to pass the time using pastel painting with watercolors. I’ve never used the two together and this was highly informative — particularly for achieving that translucent hue of snow. How do you paint white with color? It’s perplexing but Christine Kane on Art Instruction Blog makes it look easy. See how she goes from this reference photo to her final painting. One Tree Hill by U2 seems a good way to Kick Start the weekend early and in hopes that 2011 gets off to…
