Zinnias

My biggest and most colorful project to date.  Chalk Pastels.

The orange and blue contrast area here is probably my favorite.

Floating Arrhythmia

Blindfolded Finger Painting

Water Color

 

So glad not to be watching a heart monitor this Father's Day.

Happy Father's Day Dad!

 

Hope it's swell :)

Change Attitude

Journaling and reflection from class writing assignment:

I found that if I slowed down in my writing, focused on making my handwriting neater my thoughts became better developed and easier to articulate in my writing. I have never liked my handwriting and often type to get around this shortcoming, as I see it. However, handwriting and typing create very different results for me when I work. I tend to want to be a perfectionist, and typing makes everything as good as I can make it. I also know that I am not a good speller, and often avoid words or make ridiculous guesses when I am hand writing something. I tend to express myself with words and fluid ideas when I am typing, but felt challenged today when writing to get similar results with handwriting.

I love Metaphor

Finally, the artistic use of an extended metaphor in academic writing was a bold and creative move on the part of Harrington. I found that this article was the most engaging for me to read from the selections about the theories of creativity because it was anchored in a literal and concrete image. While the author does limit the use of the metaphor and implies that it should not be taken as a 1:1 symbol, the grandeur of the ecosystem image allows for the reader to freely flow between ideas of creativity and look for ways that it might fit into the ecosystem model. As this article presented complex material with the use of a metaphor, I wonder how I might be able to use this model in the classroom to teach large ideas. We often use metaphors and analogies for small specific pieces of knowledge but I would like to explore the use of metaphors in larger units of study

Chenoweth Postcards

We went to the Library special collections to view artwork of Mary Chenoweth who was a CC professor and local artist.  She had a large series of postcards that she mailed to a select few people, who then donated them to the library. This is my postcard after seeing her many different ideas.

Blindfold Finger Painting

So, this isn't just what we do in grad programs. We have to do a lot of reading, writing, and discussion.

But if we're practicing how to express our creativity....

we fingerpaint while blindfolded.

It was actually a very valuable experience because for those of us that have a lot of rules we like to try to follow when creating art, such as size, shape, color, position, relationship between objects etc. blindfolded anything pretty much eliminates our ability to be picky about how we are building our piece.

A Play with Line and Color

The illustration I decided to do for my journal for the Creativity Course.


I like to seperate things into boxes or semi-boxes.

I'm happies with the fingerprint's falling. They were the fastest and most fun.

The swirls and dots are my doodling .

Creativity Axioms

One of these creative axioms will be the basis of the research paper due 6/24.

• Honor your obsessions
• Be extravagant
• Find supportive people
• Use Texture
• Abandon normal instruments
• Imitate and steal from other artists