The Artist's Journey Newsletter
The Artist’s Journey Newsletter September 1, 2024
The links are active for members of The Artist's Journey. Scroll down for more information.
Recent Uploads:
1. New Course - Sketchbook Stories - A new course. Videos are not necessarily narrated. LINK
2. Come Walk With Me LINK
2a - Meandering Thoughts - Early morning in the studio Aug. 25, 2024 LINK
2b - Normal Sketching - Automatic, Sound-Inspired, NeuroArt August 28, 2024 LINK
2c - Normal Sketching - Evolved Connect-the-Dots - September 2, 2024 LINK
3. ART BOOK CLUB SKETCHBOOK STORY TIME recordings of live events
Recordings of Art Book Club - Sketchbook Story Time Live Sessions. Link to RESOURCES
3a - August 26th recorded session - discussion on being in, and getting out of, slumps … followed by exploring the sensitive expressionistic paintings of children by Joan Eardley.
Archived:
4. Come Walk With Me ... archived lessons LINK
4a. Meandering Thoughts - August 5, 2024 LINK
Challenges:
New challenge posted inspired by the work of Candy Jernigan presented by our member Suzanne Ourth during our last ABCSST event. You have one month to complete the challenge. Link
Upcoming Events:
ABCSST - Sept. 9, 2024
ABCSST - Sept. 16, 2024 - cancelled due to scheduled eye surgery.
ABCSST - Sept. 23, 2024
ABCSST - Sept. 30, 2024
Book Recommendations:
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Artists to Explore:
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Ivon Hitchens
Bi-Weekly Brain Game for Artists: Adapted from the The Big Book of Brain Games: 1000 Play Thinks of Art, Mathematics & Science by Ivan Moscovich
#306 A blue triangle, a red square, a green pentagon, and a pink hexagon are inscribed in the same circle and are revolving within it. Can you envision what you would see as the circle turns?
The Artist’s Journey Newsletter is primarily an update for members of The Artist’s Journey Community to inform them of new videos, lessons, challenges and recorded events that have been uploaded for them during the previous two weeks and to notify them of upcoming plans and events available for them to participate in.
The newsletter is also available to anyone who wishes to get an idea of what our art community is about and what it has to offer to those who are on the path of nurturing their creativity regardless of what form that creativity might take. It could be painting, sculpture, sketching, photography, music, dance, writing, etc. All are welcome to participate. If you like what you see and would like to join our community, we welcome you to join us and encourage you to become an active member by sharing your work, the artists who have influenced you, your favourite books; your current projects and anything else that is part of your creative journey.
I’m Chris Carter. I’ve created The Artist’s Journey as a way to connect to, communicate with, and be inspired by artists throughout the world. The community is housed within my website, www.ChrisCarterArt.com, allowing the members full access to all of my online classes, a multitude of extra videos, references and blog posts as well as the ability to join in our weekly live sessions of Art Book Club - Sketchbook Story Time. They also have access to the recordings of live events. Members are invited to participate in our monthly or bi-monthly challenges and are encouraged to present their own special events to the community through our live room or through zoom. The live room is also available for members to meet privately with one another to have video conversations with one another. Within our community I am in the role of moderator, not teacher. In the community we are artist to artist.
After decades of exhibiting and keeping up with ever-changing ways to market my work and to share all that I’ve learned over the years by teaching live workshops and online courses, I want more time in the studio, more time to continue growing as an artist … and less time sitting at my computer dealing with the latest software updates and new trends. I want to spend time with other artists who were serious about honing skills and discovering new ways to express themselves through their art. Creating The Artist’s Journey presented itself as a possible solution. I no longer offer the online courses separately. All of them are available at all times to active members of the community. When I get the urge to create a new lesson, I add it to an existing class or I create a stand-alone mini lesson. I now have more time in the studio and new friendships are being made. We inspire, encourage and enjoy one another. Members may come and go, as they wish. Everyone is welcome to join, welcome to participate, free to leave and welcome to return.
The plan is for the newsletter to be a bi-weekly update sent out to subscribers at the beginning of the month and mid-month on either Friday, Saturday or Sunday, whichever works out the best with my schedule. In addition to the two update listings, I might include a snippet of something that I think will be of interest to both members and non-members; a book recommendation, an anecdote, a brain game, a link to a video …. I’m open to suggestions.
The current Kaleidoscope Newsletter will also be posted here on my website. If you wish to have it sent directly to your email, you may subscribe below.
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