Where ART Lives Magazine Volume 2 Number 2 | Page 105

2016 Schedule:
Joan Fullerton’s Creative Approaches for Self Expression
1. What is good design? Designing before, during or after the art process.
2. Adjusting the tempo of creativity…. what is the quality of your line/gestures and
how does tempo affect thinking vs. feeling.
3. The soap opera of shapes, spaces, line, color and pattern. What emotional content
are you delivering?
4. Setting parameters on materials and ideas. Limited palette, materials and ideas.
(You wouldn’t want to eat everything at a smorgasbord.)
5. Exploring Yin/Yang thinking to get more interest in your compositions. Utilizing
contrast of art elements for dynamic spatial relationships.
6. Working in layers for “Pentimento” effects which I call putting on your underpants.
This includes a variety of mixed media techniques.
7. Personalizing tools for persevering through frustrations and dilemmas; how to
recover from perfectionism.
8. Learning to create ambiguity and mystery while developing your own aesthetic
voice.
9. Getting out of your head for greater self-expression and then editing the results.
10. We will explore qualities of Abstraction and Non-objective art.
11. Utilizing rich neutrals in your color palette will be emphasized.
12. New avenues for inspiration.

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