Creative Catalyst Newsletter August 26, 2008
SAVE $10 on CHEE Workshops
We are wrapping up August with an opportunity you won’t want to miss. It’s a Cheng-Khee Chee Spree!
SAVE $10 on any of the Chee DVD workshops and receive a FREE mini muffin palette with each DVD ordered (while supplies last). The palettes are white plastic with 6 wells that hold about 1/8th cup liquid each.
Cheng-Khee has developed five techniques, each suited to most effortlessly express a subject. The first half of each workshop begins with free-flowing, intuitive creativity. In the second half, Chee analyzes design and makes adjustments. He demonstrates an amazing mastery of watercolor. There is not enough room here to describe each workshop, so we recommend checking out the previews at the LINK below.
Buy one; get one FREE muffin palette! Buy six; get six FREE muffin palettes!!!
These DVDs make great gifts for your artist friends.
Regular Prices range from $39.95 - $49.95 – Sale Prices range from $29.95 - $39.95 – Valid only for Online Orders – Sale Ends Tuesday, 9/2/08.
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From Behind the Camera
While watching the Olympic athletes I was reminded of something Polly Hammett said about critiques groups. Polly said the best critique groups are those that help artists understand and embrace their strengths rather than weaknesses. Elite athletes work to purge any thought of failure from their minds before a competition. It’s part of their training. Their focus is winning. Likewise, artists need to surround themselves with success.
Take advantage of the fact that as an artist you are a visual. Be your own good influence. Give away, burn, pulverize or turn to the wall your own work that does not represent the direction in which you want to grow. Keep a copy or the original of your own best work.
Acquire examples of work that please you. Original or print, let the imagery you strive to make your own surround you. You might be surprised to find that fellow artists, you admire, are often open to trading one of your paintings for one of theirs.
Of course, books and DVD workshops are a help too.
The creative process is a delicate balance between free-flowing intuition and analytical thinking. Inspiration and confidence helps in both categories.
Cheers,
Lynn Powers
A little Help Please
I’m asking a little favor. It would help me tremendously to know what kind of issues interest you for my “From Behind the Camera” articles. What would you like to know about the artists we’ve worked with, or how we film, or how we select with whom we work, or perhaps you have questions about materials or design, etc? I would like to know whatever interests you. I am happy to pester the folks who know the answers even if their answer is that there are no answers.
Thanks,
Lynn Powers
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QUOTES
“What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art? Such things as the materials, and care in the actual process of painting, and even of preparing the canvas, are the least important. They can always be fixed up, can’t they? Whereas art — oh, it’s a very awkward and a very awesome thing to go into deeply. ”
~Paul Gauguin
1848-1903
From ARTIST TO ARTIST
Compiled by Clint Brown
