Comments on: Follow Your Bliss with Artist Violette Clark! http://www.taracronica.com/talent/follow-your-bliss-with-artist-violette-clark Girlfriends ~ Inspiration ~ Silver Jewelry Treasures Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: bonnie http://www.taracronica.com/talent/follow-your-bliss-with-artist-violette-clark/comment-page-1#comment-809 bonnie Mon, 11 May 2009 21:41:20 +0000 http://www.taracronica.com/?p=3845#comment-809 Hi Mary Dale! No, it was not a teacher from Argyle. I was still living in Australia when I was in grade 8. I'm sad to think that you aren't doing any art now. Art is really for yourself and not for anyone else. If others like it great, if not it doesn't matter because I think it's the process of creating the art that is important (unless you are trying to sell it and make a living from it). That teacher you had really messed up by discouraging you when her/his most important role of teaching should have been to encourage. It's time for you to tap into your creative juices again! I suspect your singing has been a way to express your artistic side up until now and look how much you love that. Let us know if you do any art projects and how it feels for you. :) Hi Mary Dale! No, it was not a teacher from Argyle. I was still living in Australia when I was in grade 8.

I’m sad to think that you aren’t doing any art now. Art is really for yourself and not for anyone else. If others like it great, if not it doesn’t matter because I think it’s the process of creating the art that is important (unless you are trying to sell it and make a living from it). That teacher you had really messed up by discouraging you when her/his most important role of teaching should have been to encourage. It’s time for you to tap into your creative juices again! I suspect your singing has been a way to express your artistic side up until now and look how much you love that.

Let us know if you do any art projects and how it feels for you. :)

]]> By: Lara http://www.taracronica.com/talent/follow-your-bliss-with-artist-violette-clark/comment-page-1#comment-804 Lara Sun, 10 May 2009 09:51:46 +0000 http://www.taracronica.com/?p=3845#comment-804 Hi, some very thought provoking questions - really interesting! Thank you. Love your website too, you live in such a beautiful part of the world. :) Hi, some very thought provoking questions – really interesting! Thank you. Love your website too, you live in such a beautiful part of the world. :)

]]> By: Mary Dale http://www.taracronica.com/talent/follow-your-bliss-with-artist-violette-clark/comment-page-1#comment-800 Mary Dale Sat, 09 May 2009 15:46:51 +0000 http://www.taracronica.com/?p=3845#comment-800 Bonnie, I'm curious, who did you have for grade 8 art? Was it at Argyle? I wanted to be an artist and while in school in Ontario, had a fantastic art teacher and took an art history class and everything. Then when I arrived at Argyle in grade 10 the art teacher killed my dream, said I didn't have it. I never took art after grade 10 and don't do anything remotely artistic now. I'm curious to know if it was the same teacher. Bonnie, I’m curious, who did you have for grade 8 art? Was it at Argyle? I wanted to be an artist and while in school in Ontario, had a fantastic art teacher and took an art history class and everything. Then when I arrived at Argyle in grade 10 the art teacher killed my dream, said I didn’t have it. I never took art after grade 10 and don’t do anything remotely artistic now. I’m curious to know if it was the same teacher.

]]> By: jacquie http://www.taracronica.com/talent/follow-your-bliss-with-artist-violette-clark/comment-page-1#comment-794 jacquie Fri, 08 May 2009 05:40:19 +0000 http://www.taracronica.com/?p=3845#comment-794 One thing you always have to remember is that Art teachers are marking 'technique' and not vision, although the good ones can do both and still be effective. It's their job to teach the fundamentals and sometimes kids have a harder time with that because they're more interested in Science or boys or Phys Ed or Home Ec or ...lunch. Everybody can create and find a way to express themselves by manipulating their media of choice. The great artists of the Modernist era like Duchamp ( or was he a Dadaist?) didn't get famous because of their academic technique but more because of the way they interpreted ideas and concepts. The vision or meaning was the most important thing. Keep doing the shoe sketches, Bonnie. They must mean something to you. Lots of people decorate with interesting shoe art. You have to wonder why? Interesting. One thing you always have to remember is that Art teachers are marking ‘technique’ and not vision, although the good ones can do both and still be effective. It’s their job to teach the fundamentals and sometimes kids have a harder time with that because they’re more interested in Science or boys or Phys Ed or Home Ec or …lunch. Everybody can create and find a way to express themselves by manipulating their media of choice. The great artists of the Modernist era like Duchamp ( or was he a Dadaist?) didn’t get famous because of their academic technique but more because of the way they interpreted ideas and concepts. The vision or meaning was the most important thing.

Keep doing the shoe sketches, Bonnie. They must mean something to you. Lots of people decorate with interesting shoe art. You have to wonder why? Interesting.

]]> By: Tracy Westerholm http://www.taracronica.com/talent/follow-your-bliss-with-artist-violette-clark/comment-page-1#comment-793 Tracy Westerholm Fri, 08 May 2009 05:39:45 +0000 http://www.taracronica.com/?p=3845#comment-793 I too enjoyed checking out Violette's web site. I love the vibrant colours she paints with. Very inspiring! Thank you ! I too enjoyed checking out Violette’s web site. I love the vibrant colours she paints with. Very inspiring! Thank you !

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