Opportunity to Grow
May 3, 2013
Inspirational Art, Polymer community news
If you have been enjoying the conversation about expanding your artistic voice, you may want to hop on over to Voila! this weekend. As of this Sunday, there is a new class you can join–Ways To Wow … and all you have to do is show up on the site Sunday!
Here’s the deal: Voila! is creating an opportunity for you to spend the next 6 months planning, designing and making a piece to achieve significant creative growth. At the end of the course, you will have a landmark piece in your body of work that exemplifies your creativity. You will also have learned a method that you can use for your future big projects.
Christine Dumont is a force for artistic growth in our community and regularly has classes like this running on Voila!. Look at what Angela Garrod did during the last class, How to Become a Better Artist.
Angela has thoroughly explored this hollow pendant form with a variety of applications. Intense exploration into a technique, form or approach is a great way to explore your artistic voice. You find yourself drawn back to certain aspects of your experiments which gives you a direction to push yourself. This kind of in-depth exploration is what you can expect if you join in on one of Christine’s Voila! classes.
Here are highlights from the class description:
The course will require at least two hours of your time per week. The studio sessions will of course require as much time as it takes to complete the piece. This course is free and available to all but only Voila! members will have access to the forums to discuss the course material and post images in the gallery.
New course material will be posted on the Homepage every Sunday starting May 5th. You don’t have anything to do except wait for May 5th when Christine will be posting course material for the week.
Cool, huh? Head on over to Voila! if you aren’t familiar with the site and then we’ll see you back there on Sunday! http://www.voila.eu.com/
Challenge Yourself
August 5, 2012
Ponderings
Sticking with what is easy – with what we know may be comfortable and safe – isn’t usually very fulfilling. Challenging yourself to be, and do more, than you think you can is not only exciting but gives every day a unique and motivating reason to get up in the morning.
I think this is particularly important for people in retirement or empty nesters – people who no longer have that daily focus of a job or children.We all have our art. But how much do you push yourself? You are never so far down the road that you shouldn’t keep trying to make yourself better. Keep challenging yourself with big goals!
If you have been enjoying the conversation about expanding your artistic voice, you may want to hop on over to Voila! this weekend. As of this Sunday, there is a new class you can join–Ways To Wow … and all you have to do is show up on the site Sunday!
Here’s the deal: Voila! is creating an opportunity for you to spend the next 6 months planning, designing and making a piece to achieve significant creative growth. At the end of the course, you will have a landmark piece in your body of work that exemplifies your creativity. You will also have learned a method that you can use for your future big projects.
Christine Dumont is a force for artistic growth in our community and regularly has classes like this running on Voila!. Look at what Angela Garrod did during the last class, How to Become a Better Artist.
Angela has thoroughly explored this hollow pendant form with a variety of applications. Intense exploration into a technique, form or approach is a great way to explore your artistic voice. You find yourself drawn back to certain aspects of your experiments which gives you a direction to push yourself. This kind of in-depth exploration is what you can expect if you join in on one of Christine’s Voila! classes.
Here are highlights from the class description:
The course will require at least two hours of your time per week. The studio sessions will of course require as much time as it takes to complete the piece. This course is free and available to all but only Voila! members will have access to the forums to discuss the course material and post images in the gallery.
New course material will be posted on the Homepage every Sunday starting May 5th. You don’t have anything to do except wait for May 5th when Christine will be posting course material for the week.
Cool, huh? Head on over to Voila! if you aren’t familiar with the site and then we’ll see you back there on Sunday! http://www.voila.eu.com/
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Sticking with what is easy – with what we know may be comfortable and safe – isn’t usually very fulfilling. Challenging yourself to be, and do more, than you think you can is not only exciting but gives every day a unique and motivating reason to get up in the morning.
I think this is particularly important for people in retirement or empty nesters – people who no longer have that daily focus of a job or children.We all have our art. But how much do you push yourself? You are never so far down the road that you shouldn’t keep trying to make yourself better. Keep challenging yourself with big goals!
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