Announcements:• Look for our new self-pacing Academy course at half price next week. This course will teach you about Contrasting & Gradating Textures. • Also, next week, we will begin registration for our November online workshop, Creating Rhythm with Color. Watch for that announcement. • Do you know someone who might enjoy what we do? Feel free
to forward this post to them. They can sign up for our mailing list HERE Here's another post from five years ago that deserves a dusting off and a new coat.Think about it -- the entire range from working out emotional issues (art therapy) to serving as decoration to exploring ideas and concepts, the act of painting has thrived for thousands of years. It
can stand the beating it gets from critics and lay people alike. It can move people to tears, infuriate them, totally puzzle them, leave them untouched, or give them clarity. Painting is a powerful activity. Painting parallels with poetry, prose, music, dance, theater--any creative mode you can name. It even coincides with science, sports, business--name the field and I can show you an
alignment.
That's because, just like all fields of endeavor, painting has its own language. And we who one way or another are drawn to it, use that language to make our paintings do what we want them to do,
even if unconsciously.
Beginning with next week's post, I want to explore with you the anatomy of that language. I've done this once before with the elements, but this time I want to put a new spin on it--how, with every brushstroke we
make, we translate, transpose, illustrate and compose through the uniqueness that is our essence. From the energy of Richard Schmid... ...to the composing skills of John Singer Sargent...
... to the rhythm of Qiang Huang...
...and the balance of Norman Rockwell.
How did Claude Monet use that language to create haystacks in more than two dozen interpretations of light?
The language of painting has its own parts of speech within a universal pattern of expression. Every painter has an inner unique process for putting these together. When we work with an aware knowledge
of what our visual language can do, we do our most creative, expressive and competent artwork. Tune in with me right here throughout the rest of this year to explore these wonders!
Enjoy an uplifting weekend!
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Happy Painting,
Dianne
dianne@diannemize.com
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