“Creative people make more use of their mental raw material and practice less intellectual regulation.” So says this blog.
A lot of attention is put into how to create great ideas. But what about the dumb ones? Today’s challenge is to draw something inspired by the phrase
“Well that was a dumb idea.”
Yup. And if your drawing doesn’t go well you can blame me, because it was my unfortunate idea that we do a drawing about dumb ideas, and I have no idea what I’m going to draw.
For 30 years Stuart Shils painted urban skylines and tuscan landscapes, painting outside or by looking through the window. He simpliefied the landscape into bright, vague, and subtle studies of color. Now he’s at that same window, his view turned inward, making collage, camera and light projections. They’re called Window Collages. The titles are poetic/scientific documentations: night …
Marc Bohne January 29, 2010 By Larry Interview on Painting Perceptions Marc Bohne Clearing Sky, oil on panel, 6 x 7 inches Marc Bohne is a landscape painter from Seattle, Washington. His website has an amazing number of exquisite landscapes. The smaller landscapes, that appear to have been made quickly from life have an immediacy …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8958″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] In the April 13, 2018 V. Note, I was Looking Closely at JS Sargent’s Portrait of Henry James. In the post I got all up in that portrait, and guessed at Sargent’s palette, his brushes, and his process. Everything seemed to make sense except for a diagonal stroke of blue …
Dumb Ideas
“Creative people make more use of their mental raw material and practice less intellectual regulation.” So says this blog.
A lot of attention is put into how to create great ideas. But what about the dumb ones? Today’s challenge is to draw something inspired by the phrase
“Well that was a dumb idea.”
Yup. And if your drawing doesn’t go well you can blame me, because it was my unfortunate idea that we do a drawing about dumb ideas, and I have no idea what I’m going to draw.
Cheers
Ruthie
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