This weekend I had the fun of getting creative with my camera. I took a “Creative Camera Techniques” class at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland. The class involved a lot of techniques for getting blurs and images that are more painterly and less literal. It was fun to get
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Dec 26, 2011 | Post by: Kat 8 Comments
Seeing the Light
The difficulties are always the most important ingredients in the total picture of a creative experience. – Shaun McNiff in Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go I started a new book for my “morning practice reading” in the last few days, Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide
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Aug 15, 2011 | Post by: Kat 15 Comments
When a Plan Comes Together
Cheerful flowers and colorful paint make me smile!Carbondale, Colorado Guess what today is? Monday, yes. The middle of August, that too. It’s also the day I link in to Creative Every Day and the Creative Exchange. But it’s even bigger than that: Today is the first day of my part
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Jul 19, 2011 | Post by: Kat 12 Comments
A Few New Tools
These old tools look well used, don’t they? They were part of a display in the Marksburg Castle in the Rhine River Valley in Germany. I loved the light and contrast, but just as much I loved that they represented the hard work of the people who once lived there.
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Jul 15, 2011 | Post by: Kat 36 Comments
The Possibilities of Emptiness
What do you see in this image? Maybe you see the empty room, and wonder what will go there. Maybe you see the red wall. Maybe you see the tree beyond the window, the world outside. To me, this room is not empty, it’s full of possibilities. Welcome to my
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Jul 12, 2011 | Post by: Kat 11 Comments
How are you Hard-Wired?
Each of us is hard-wired a certain way. And that hard-wiring insinuates itself into our work. That’s not a bad thing. Actually, it’s what the world expects from you. We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us. If
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