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A Passion For Creativity

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A Passion For Creativity · 3W ago

Abstraction

The process of abstraction holds endless possibilities. You can zoom in, zoom out, fragment, isolate, select and emphasize; the idea is to…mmm, even that is up for grabs. When subject matter is abstracted, one sometimes, often, looks for the elemental, the essence of a thing. It’s a bit diffic...
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A Passion For Creativity · 3W ago

Abstraction

The process of abstraction holds endless possibilities.  You can zoom in, zoom out, fragment, isolate, select and emphasize; the idea is to…mmm, even that is up for grabs. When subject matter is abstracted, one sometimes, often, looks for the elemental, the essence of a thing. It’s a bit diffi...
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A Passion For Creativity · 1M ago

April Is Poetry Month!

Last month, March, was Youth Art Month. The Council for Art education thought of that. This month, April, is Poetry Month. Apparently this was initiated by the Academy of American Poets. It’s nice to know these things. I’m game for anything that spotlights and awakens the various creativ...
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A Passion For Creativity · 2M ago

March is Youth Art Month

Sponsored by the Council for Art Education, Youth Art Month is observed annually throughout the month of March. The goal is to spotlight and support quality art education for all children. I’ll quote off their page which reflects my thoughts on the subject. “…art education is often...
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A Passion For Creativity · 2M ago

St. Paddy’s Day 2012

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A Passion For Creativity · 2M ago

Composition In Red: Art from Trash

This art piece uses only two things: Styrofoam from a take-out container, and cut magazine paper. While the previously posted fish mobile is much about organic shapes, this one is about geometric ones, and numbers. Since these four works will be displayed at a school I kept in mind the various curri...
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A Passion For Creativity · 2M ago

Fish-Go-‘Round: Art from Trash

Fish are patterns, stripes, dots, chroma, shimmer, and flashing movement-darting singly, or en masse. Fish fascinate me and are recurring subject matter, so the idea of “fish mobile” came readily when thinking of something kinetic. Although this piece doesn’t go ‘round & ‘round, the fish shapes ...
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A Passion For Creativity · 2M ago

Fuzzy Creature: art from trash

You can cut and/or tear cardboard boxes, foam cubes, plastic cups, etc., for use in flat art pieces. But think of the uses for sculpture! Three-dimensional trash holds endless possibilities for fascinating creatures, robots and humanoids, animals, architectural ideas…endless, once the brainsto...
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A Passion For Creativity · 2M ago

Shiny, Shiny Night: art from trash

For the past week I’ve been imagining again what to do with discards, trash, and used-up items, how they may serve as art material. The prompt was a display to be set up at Woodrow Wallace School to drum up interest for the Youth Recycled Art Show in March, part of the Living Green Festival. It’s [....
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A Passion For Creativity · 3M ago

Fiore & Floret

by Felix Adamo Felix Adamo is a news photographer and a longtime friend. When I open the paper and a photo demands a second look, it’s usually by Felix. His approach to composition, light, and content [...]
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