What is the role of beauty?
What we’ve learned about stress!
How does stress affect your life and painting? OK, here’s the scary thing! Evidently, stress causes the body to create excess amounts of cortisol. Cortisol damages the brain and leads to premature brain aging. But I think there’s something even worse that happens. When you’re stressed, you don’t think clearly. Perhaps cortisol is affecting that area of your brain as … [Read more...]
More Than A Painter
Bill Alexander was more than a painter. He was more than an artist. When I first discovered Bill, I knew right away he was a remarkable painter. The more I watched his videos, the more I understood there was something more to Bill. Listen to what he says while he is painting. You will learn what makes him so unique. As a child, I loved watching cartoons. In fact, I still … [Read more...]
What is the structure of art?
There is structure to art. In today’s video clip, Tom refers to that structure as "architectonics." While the definition of architectonics refers to “the scientific study of architecture.” It also applies to "artistic structure." Does not architecture have artistic elements? Is there not art in architecture? In fact, some of the most beautiful architectural structures in … [Read more...]
Don’t panic!
Today’s video clip comes from our upcoming Advanced Master Class. It seems, sometimes, when we are painting, that things can get out of hand pretty quickly. It usually starts innocently enough — an errant brush stroke. Oops! Got to fix that, you say. But the fix only makes it worse. Now you’ve got to wipe it off and try again. You can’t, though, wipe it all off. There … [Read more...]
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