Like Gustave Courbet’s “Seascape,” painted in 1874.
Here’s a watercolor I derived from his painting.
Day 17 – Honoring Antoine Chintreuil
Have you ever heard of impressionist painter, Antoine Chintreuil, born in 1814 in Paris, France?
I thought I’d paint a quick semi-abstract landscape today. Here’s a watercolor I derived from Chintreuil’s “The Coast,” which he painted from about 1850 to 1857.
For this sickly, solitary, poor painter, a former pupil of Corot, the Ile-de-France was the occasion of delicate poems in which Redon rightly distinguished “that tender and gentle genius which reveals itself in a simple manner and in such a discreet form and whose profound and passionate reserve is echoed only in a number of select souls.”
(Impressionism, 1973, published by Chartwell Books, Inc., p. 45).
Day 12 – And the Dream Continues
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
Other schools advocate finding the intersection of what you love to do with what the world needs.
I like how Shea Hembrey created his own biennial and became the 100 artists participating in it! Watch his TED Talk here.
Joseph Campbell says artists are the myth-makers of our day. The artist’s function is the mythologization of the mysteries of becoming a human being.
Keep your dreams alive because no one else can tell the stories you have to tell. No one sees things exactly the way you see it.
You’re an alchemist. The Universe might mysteriously be conspiring for your success.
Day 6 – The Greatest Privilege of This Life
It’s amazing that something from my childhood is sorta “trending” now, at least as a term. Not literally.
I created this blog to nurture your creativity with my servings of soul food. I grew up helping my parents serve REAL soul food!
One major takeaway today from Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday was a Joseph Campbell quote:
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” – Joseph Campbell
This quote is from: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living. It comes out of a workshop at the Esalen Institute celebrating the scholar’s eightieth birthday.