Your paintings are the windows to your soul. Your paintings express your inner feelings in a way words can not. What do your paintings say? Alexander Art will help you release the poetry in your soul. Alexander Art will help you turn your paintings into a symphony. People will look. Then look again. And never quite figure out what's different. Alexander … [Read more...]
What’s your journey?
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." -- T.S. Eliott George Lucas' film "Star Wars" is the archetypical story of the Hero's Journey. If you follow the exploits of Luke Skywalker in the above graphic, you'll see each step of the adventure he took. In fact, it's almost … [Read more...]
Finding serenity in a chaotic world.
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. - Saul Bellow We live in chaotic times. It seems like the whole world is out of control. What's worse -- there is little … [Read more...]
The Three Solutions
We've gotten to the point where we double check quotes before we use them. Many quotes attributed to others turn out to be false. They never said them or someone "refashioned" the real quote. An interesting article from the New York Times explains the problem. I wanted to use a quote attributed to Gandhi. "Be the change you wish to see in the world." Sorry, that's not … [Read more...]
Who are you trying to please?
I saw a pending post in one of our Facebook groups. It began, "My work may not be very good..." When I read it, I felt a pain in my heart. The post continued by stating that the member really enjoyed painting and that was the important thing. While we love that idea, it hides a need we all have. The need is unconditional love -- for ourselves. We've written before … [Read more...]
[Q&A] What inspires artists?
Painting is about expressing yourself. All art is about self-expression in one way or another. Whether you play a musical instrument, dance, or create an oil painting, you communicate your feelings with another human being. A work of art speaks to the viewer. It communicates an idea that was in the artist's mind as little as a moment ago. Or it could be an idea that was … [Read more...]
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