My Creativity Blog

Georges Pierre Seurat’s work has been a source of inspiration for my Art I classes. I created a power point showing his work and gave a general definition of pointillism. The students were then given an assignment to create a watercolor painting of a flower or butterfly using this technique. I chose flowers and butterflies [...]

I love to read. Teaching does not give me much spare time to read, so I usually devour as many books as I possibly can during the summer. I read novels, non-fiction, self-help books, health and diet books as well as ”how to” art books; just to name a few. I recently finished a book that I discovered [...]

A painted picture is like a vehicle. One can either sit in the driveway and take it apart or one can get in it and go somewhere. ~Mark Tansey, painter Thoughts: I enjoyed Mark Tansey’s quote because it made me think about how I react to art. Sometimes when I look at a piece of artwork [...]

You ought to be able to say that a painting is as it is, with its capacity to move us, because it is as though it were touched by God. But people would think it a sham. And yet that is what’s nearest the truth. Pablo Picasso Thoughts: How do you feel about the quote [...]

 “Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don’t know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can’t do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that [...]

Learn how a Floral Painting can transform the Ambience and Mood of People

Purple Orchid Last week I wrote an article about using creativity prompts. If you missed the article you can click here to read it. Yesterday I decided to use the prompts I had written about. The prompts I mentioned were: orchid color – purple texture – rough emotion – childlike principle of design – movement I decided I [...]