What can one detail tell us about a scene? If you’re Lynne Ramsay: absolutely everything. In this episode from “Every Frame a Painting” Tony Zhou considers the poetic possibilities of cinema. He presents ideas for film that you can also be applied to paintings. (7 minutes)
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[image_with_animation image_url=”9791″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Connie Pierson, Art: Before/After League Scientists say that making art improves your happiness quotient. Happy creatives have been posting work all over the everywhere on Facebook and Instagram pages. Connie Pierson, Lucy Garnett, Alex Walker, Bolinas Frank, Siobhan Wilder, Madeline Mimi Torchia Boothby, Elva Frances, Mahala Mrozek, Marina Vogman, Laura …
I posted recently about how originality is not really what we’re built for. You can read that post here. After saying how natural copying is, I thought I should follow up with some conversations about copyright issues. Typically these conversations go straight to talking about the legal system. I personally find the artistic, personal, and moral …
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. TAUTOLOGY useless repetition An “artist rendering” is …
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What can one detail tell us about a scene? If you’re Lynne Ramsay: absolutely everything. In this episode from “Every Frame a Painting” Tony Zhou considers the poetic possibilities of cinema. He presents ideas for film that you can also be applied to paintings. (7 minutes)
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