Many Worlds trigger our imagination. We enter and become a part of these places as all our senses are ignited by the sounds, scents, feel, taste, and sights before our eyes. Science has found that the same areas of the brain light up whether we read about it, see a movie of it, or actually…… Continue Reading
Making New Memories moves you forward in life, even as you embrace the old. It’s nice that some things never change. I have great memories of crunching leaves, a woody scent in the air, tastes of taffy apples and popcorn, and visions of rich colors everywhere. It’s a sensory thing, for sure. Also, Autumn back…… Continue Reading
Art Classes Teach You More Than Techniques Art Classes teach you more of Your Way to create. Once the class is over, who have you become in the process? Rather than going merrily along doing 100 ways to paint flowers, what if we take a deeper look at what’s going on inside. What’s our way?…… Continue Reading
Weekly classes rule the day because that’s absolutely the best way to practice art. You don’t have to sit for 3 hours a day, or even every day for that matter, to really master art skills & techniques. Repeated baby steps a few times a week assimilate art memories into your body. Your body remembers…… Continue Reading
Find your Inner Artist Find your inner artist with 3 essential Basics needed in a chaotic world. When life gets hard, we need to do art more than ever. Life’s Essentials are 1) Nature, immersion of all the senses in the body, 2) Connection in every safe way possible, and 3) the Art of Creativity,…… Continue Reading
Art is Needed More Than Ever So DRAGONFLY ART OF CREATIVITY IS NOW OPEN Art is needed more than ever through these dark, sad times. The world has always been out of control, and out of our hands. Now more than ever. Our power, the only one we can shape and form to our liking,…… Continue Reading
The Art of More Time and Less Distraction The Art of More is about Seeing life away from the old speed of life we’ve known. Artists do this. Monet painted light at different times of the day. Vermeer captured a moment in time ritual in an ordinary day. We can learn to do this during…… Continue Reading
A Proven Art Success Path Changes Everything. Living the Artist’s Way A proven success path exists, and works, since that’s the tried & true way taught in many Art Education programs. That’s how I learned at the University of Illinois. Teaching art at the high school level meant learning all the art techniques from Drawing,…… Continue Reading