A
creative mess is preferable to an idle neatness.
Creativity
is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking
rules, making mistakes, and having fun. -Mary Lou
Cook
Creativity
often starts where language ends. -Arthur Koestler
Creativity
requires the courage to let go of certainties. -
Erich Fromm
Creativity
runs in the family (child and parent working together)
Cut
and Paste
Did
I say, paint everywhere EXCEPT on the paper?
Doodling
Around
Doodling
With Style
Do
you think it will make the Saturday Evening Post?
Great
things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things
brought together. --
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch Painter)
He
paints by the seat of his pants
and his shirt and his hair.
I
paint as a bird sings. - Claude Monet
If
art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the
artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John
F. Kennedy (1917-1963, assassinated 35th President of the US)
The
Imagination Factory
In
order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must
take time and care to cultivate it.
- Julia
Cameron
It's
"WONDER BOX": a train, a car, and a speedboat - with
just a little imagination it can be anything.
(cardboard
box creation)
Life
is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it
you can. - Danny Kaye (1913-1987 Comedian, singer,
dancer, philanthropist, UNICEF ambassador, symphony conductor)
Life
is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence
into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in
our hands. - Cathy Better
Life
is your blank canvas - paint your masterpiece.
No
no, it's play by ear, not paint by ear. (paint all
over face)
Our
Little Artist
Our
Moody Monet
Our
Pretty Picasso ( abstract)
Our
Rustic Rembrandt
Passionate
about/for Art
A
picture paints a thousand words.
Prints
Charming
Put
down the brush and no one will get hurt.
Refuse
to be ordinary
Show
your colors
Sidewalk
Art Show ( chalk drawings)
Stand
back and give me room.
A
stitch in time saves nine. - Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat)
To
some it is only junk -- to me it is art.
The
ultimate inspiration is a deadline.
You're
my inspiration . . .
Tips:
-- I took pictures of a lot of my
kids sidewalk art. They really put a lot of time in and it would
get washed away too soon.
-- Who
has room for all the artwork that comes home from school? I mock
framed their work and took pictures of it. Then I put the years
work on Art Show pages. My kids look back and remember that I
framed their work and laugh.
-- If
there are any cute stories on how a particular piece of art
`came-to-be' journal it next to the picture. `It really looked
good until Billy spilled water on the whole table. My art
teacher said it was the best water color she had ever seen.'