*****My Joyful Art Studio*****: July 2012

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Joyful July!!!

Hi Friends-just wanted to post a real quick note. Hope all is well with everyone. We have been really busy around here at the Boone household:

-Church camp with the boys
-Preparing for my son Zach to move home
-Preparing for art classes
-And the typical duties of a housewife and momma.

So joyful and thankful to God for his "aha" moments he has given me. Trying to live in the "moment," taking in everyone around me, and how God has created each person so differently. I love my peoples. (smiling right now)

Yes Zach did get home and I am so thrilled!

Thankful that you have dropped by to see this post.

Wanting to spread "SUNSHINE" around. Have a delightful week. Will be back soon to share what is going on.

" I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made," Psalm 139:14a

More pictures to come!!!

Joyfully-

Meagan Boone

Thoughts on Creative Practicing...

I have been teaching painting classes for several years now. I started with oils then moved into acrylics. Dorothy Dent is an artist from Missouri who paints country scenes on wood and saw blades of all shapes and sizes. As I would purchase her books with her patterns and replicate different pattern designs onto different objects, it didn't seem to bother me that I was "copying" her work. I mean after all I did purchase her permission, so to speak, right? So I think for me, I support Creative Practicing by Danielle Donaldson, is an EYE opening thought, idea, and wake up call for this artist. I was always bothered by the thought, of copying others work...but isn't that the way we learn? We learn by doing, and repeating, and studying material that others have gone on to conquer before us. It's adding our touch, our sense of color, light and dark, our personality, our, spirit, our soul, our vision to a piece of work, that maybe another person, before us created. I have been teaching what I call "Master Studies for Kids," for several years now. We read about the artist, and get to know him, then admire his work, and technique, then reproduce it somehow, in our own way. I have loved doing this with the kids. So very thankful for the article written by Danielle Donaldson...you too, can read it for yourself on her blog...www.danielledonaldson.com/creativepracticing.