Open Perspectives: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Playing with the faces to create a serving dish... part of a series of ideas created for a restaurant... I love the idea that food nourishes our minds as much as our bodies... it's food … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #122: Open Perspectives
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #121: Open-Mindedness #2
Open-Mindedness #2: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… This small series was intended to be a collective pot with almost twenty faces in a pile.... inspired by a painting by Clive Barker from his Abarat series... these ended up having more impact.... that … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #121: Open-Mindedness #2
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #120: Open-Mindedness #1
Open-Mindedness #1: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… This small series was intended to be a collective pot with almost twenty faces in a pile.... inspired by a painting by Clive Barker from his Abarat series... these ended up having more impact.... that … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #120: Open-Mindedness #1
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #119: New Face #2
New Face #2: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Sometimes we need to let the gods of spontaneity take over. I had been making a slew of faces for several projects and had a load of leftover materials to use. I inverted a … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #119: New Face #2
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #118: New Face #1
New Face #1: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Enough people commented that my faces remind them of the Easter Island heads or they saw a Picasso influence... so I made a smoking Picasso Tiki. The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Using … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #118: New Face #1
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #117: Multiple Perspectives
Multiple Perspectives: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Music plays a pivotal role in my visual work and I don’t always see it at first. I found myself listening to classical music from the Baroque era and remembering the many Gothic Cathedrals I … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #117: Multiple Perspectives
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #116: Look Around #4
Look Around #4: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Material explorations using my faces... I needed to play with what I had learned about glaze chemistry and continue to create functional art and sculptural objects... a different perspective for each individual viewer… As … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #116: Look Around #4
My Favourite Art Supplies: To Conté or Not To Conté?
Conté à Paris Pastel Pencils with 24 Assorted Colors & Conté à Paris The Sketching Box with Assorted Pencils: The Review: Conte is a strange material to use. Well, it is for me. It can come off as scratchy and hard to control if you wish to have only crisp lines. It tends to crumble … Continue reading My Favourite Art Supplies: To Conté or Not To Conté?
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #115: Look Around #3
Look Around #3: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Material explorations using my faces... I needed to play with what I had learned about glaze chemistry and continue to create functional art and sculptural objects... a different perspective for each individual viewer… As … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #115: Look Around #3
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #114: Look Around #2
Look Around #2: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Material explorations using my faces... I needed to play with what I had learned about glaze chemistry and continue to create functional art and sculptural objects... a different perspective for each individual viewer… As … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #114: Look Around #2
The New Renaissance Mindset 