mcauleyhouseartists: ART LOVE

Sunday, September 3, 2017

ART LOVE

ART LOVE- Anthony surprised Sandy with her own Superhero painting titled,"Red Sandra".
Sandy was so happy to get such an awesome surprise.

Some of Anthony's latest work as well as a photo of his studio.
Anthony is very generous with his work and definitely brings a lot of ART LOVE to the world. 💙💙💙

The two photos below are of a painting by Linda King. I love having the painting hang in my home in a place seen several times a day. Linda has an abundance of ART LOVE that is part of the air she breathes. Before you know it, you begin to breathe that same air.

Above, Linda's work in progress...

The paintings above were done by Russell, a twelve year veteran of the art program. Russell loves to express his strong faith in his art. He has an abundance of ART LOVE which has touched many of his friends as well as myself. Thanks Russell !

David, our master collage artist, made over 12 collage pieces to deliver to his various customers and friends when this photo was taken. David spreads his ART LOVE all over the city. Thanks David- your gift of collage combined with your ART LOVE and your love for your friends and family shines a bright light of hope for all of us. 💜

Artist, Michael, painted these beautiful angels. Michael has also been with the Art group for over twelve years. He's not only a talented artist, but a loyal volunteer of many years at Mathewson Street United Methodist church. Thanks for all you do Michael 💜💚💛

Thank you to all the artists for sharing your ART LOVE with so many people. You touch my life and many more lives in ways you'll never know. ART LOVE has no boundaries in the blessings it provides us all.

About the Art Program

5 Ways to Grow as an Artist

So how would a Cassatt or a Henri or Picasso approach painting differently than we do today? How might this heartfelt fear of others controlling our painting process impact our self-understanding as artists? Here are five possible answers:

1. Making a successful picture is not the goal. Think of periods, such as childhood, when we grew, our self-understanding changed and we became more of who we are. There was an endless stream of events where we expressed ourselves and slowly began to discover the things that pleased us. As with the sense of freedom characterized above, the entire payoff was growth. The events of life when we grow are the things that happen along the way. Making art should be exactly the same. Paintings are just the series of events or steps we take. Let them go. Keep moving. Or as Henri implored, “Keep living.”

2. The painting process is always a beginning. As soon as the freshness evaporates (we are bored or lost or acquire interest in something else), stop. Do not think in terms of finishing. Picasso lectures eloquently on this. Finish is the death of our work because it means we are painting an expectation or “to be like” and that puts the brakes on painting to see and feel more deeply. Every beginning is a new prompt, a new point of departure. Begin everything. Finish nothing.

3. Ignore non-artist authorities. Juries, the grantors, the gallery, the direction from above are just so many fingers in our pie. All external measures are dangerous because they not only push us to performing, as opposed to creating, but their sense of worth takes over our own. This is precisely what Parisian artists fought against.

4. Get into a prolonged creative process. Have dozens of paintings in your studio that have been abandoned for one reason or another, left in various stages, unfinished but always complete as expressions of who you were at that moment. Work on several paintings simultaneously. You are not making shoes.

5. Furnish the world with your beauty, let the world see, touch and feel who you are. Scary I know. It is so much easier to hide within safe fortresses, the sources of praise and dignity that we can count on by pleasing our audience. This is the dreaded condition called style. We cannot be free to be who we are if we are not always risking being who we are in front of others.