Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
I tried a new technique of painting pastels into saturated, wet paper, and I’m in love with the process. It is so spontaneous and immediate, and perfect for abstract expressionism.
I completed four paintings enough to give a presentation about my work in front of a great audience.
Photos of a good day: a long swim with friends, a newly finished painting that I’m satisfied with, and an amazing alpine horn.
Another lovely day on Long Lake with progress photos of my paintings.
Check out this beautiful place and that gorgeous sunset!
On Long Lake at this special church camp, this time with an artist-in residency! I’ll be showing you progress photos of my art this week.
This is the first year I have had the honor of both teaching here as well as being an artist in residence. I’m teaching a class called The Art of Seeing…
Here are my photos of Creative Arts Camp and of other’s art there
Here are photos of the people at Creative Arts Camp– these people are the reason I come each and every year…
This is the last assignment at this year’s Creative Arts Camp. We were to paint a still life with a view out a window.
So many things at camp are about movement. All artists are about moving thought. In this exercise we were to get more of our body involved, moving it as a way to move others…
I had a great time doing these. I threw, spattered, and poured paint. It was especially fun to drop paint from a twelve foot height off a deck banister onto paper and watch it splat.
Here is the painting I finished at camp yesterday. I was attracted to the strong diagonal composition and how the rocks in the bottom right, together with the cabins in the upper left, created the feeling of torque, even though it is a peaceful scene.
Karen Montanaro, an instructor at Creative Arts Camp, summarizes the power of art in these three short quotes.
Here is the first exercise I did in my painting class from camp. We were to paint a still life, interior, or landscape from life abstractly. Then we were to clean off our palette on a new sheet and let it dry as an underpainting for the next work. Next we were asked to paint again the previous painting from memory even more abstractly.
This is a church camp and I love the intersection of Christian Scientists and creative people. They are both my favorite kinds of people.
The people is what I go to Creative Arts Camp for. I love the intersection between Christian Scientists and creative people, and I was there about twenty minutes my first time before I knew this would become an annual event for me.