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I just recently saw, again, the classic 1979 Francis Ford Coppola movie called:  ”The Black Stallion”.  It is a beautiful film.  The cinematography of the young boy running on an empty wind swept beach with this incredibly wild and gorgeous black horse captured my heart – and somehow sparked a reflection on creativity. What striked [...]

Since I was a kid I’ve kept a journal and a sketchbook; now I am also glued to a weekly planner.  It seems I have a consistent desire to keep track of and manage time.  I also think that someday I may want to look back to see where I’ve come from.  Kind of like [...]

I took a couple of excellent marketing workshops this summer offered by Jason Horejs at Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale Arizona (of all places!).  They have a blog called “Red Dot” that gives artists  all kinds of marketing advice. (Side note:  He has also started an on-line book club, reading biographies about famous artists – which I’m [...]

This summer I facilitated a weeklong of mornings, creating art inspired by nature.  Five participants engaged in a variety of exercises, including: sketching at Puntledge Park, ink drawings of the forest outside the Aquatic Centre, contour and gesture drawing from objects and photos and also painting in temperas using expressive colour.  The wide range of [...]

Last month I participated in a Pure Process Painting class with Lisa Kirk.  In this class there are a set of rules (or anti-rules) to help you focus on the process of painting, not the outcome; such as, “painting whatever comes to mind”, “consciously breathing” etc… We worked with tempera paint on three large sheets [...]