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Replenish your creative stock In the The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron contends that, “In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well-stocked fishpond… If we don’t give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked… As artists, [...]

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When I was in the SF Bay Area in Feb I asked all the artists I met, how the recession was affecting them. They told me “Now is a good time to be creative.” What else is there to do? I’ve been using this time to learn and experiment with things I personally find interesting, [...]

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Painting with Bacteria

Most people think of bacteria in terms of infections and disinfectants. Erich Schopf, a bacteriologist at the University of Vienna,  thinks of colour, and actually  paints with bacteria! The fact that bacteria use pigments to protect themselves against UV radiation gave him the idea to use them as paint. He gathers his raw material from the ground, [...]

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John Cimino of Creative Leaps has devised a quiz based on two lists of competencies. The first is a list that Eliot Eisner from Stanford University developed on how the mind processes art Qualitative relationships in the absence of rules Acting flexibly with purpose to approach a goal Learning to explore possibilities within a medium [...]

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Images from Art Institute of Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art ARTISTIC LIMITATIONS  Cataracts forced Mary Cassatt to stop working years before her death in 1926. She painted “Young Mother Sewing” in 1900. More Photos > For Claude Monet, 1912-22 was a watershed decade. He was perhaps the most successful artist of his time, and his genius had already [...]

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