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Blog: A Muse and Her Artist Topics:Art, Creativity, Women Helen Klebesadel original watercolor paintings, fabrics, and prints
Category Archives: Ability
Creativity Lessons: Art, Nature, and Finding Our Inner Voices
Join us for Art Workshops at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Wyoming Valley School Cultural Center outside of Spring Green Wisconsin. Continue reading
New paintings by Mary Kay Neumann, ‘Art Still Has Truth, Take Refuge There’
In her new exhibition Mary Kay Neumann’s wet-into-wet watercolor florals are alive with emotions of joy, conflict, and and the intrinsic beauty of life. Continue reading
Posted in Ability, Art Techniques, donating art, Fabulous Artists, Feminist art, Inspiration, Uncategorized, Watercolor, Wisconsin Arts
Tagged Mary Kay Neumann, watercolor
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Quilter Sally Noland: Artist in Fabric
Sally Noland is a wonderful painter but her artistic passions really lay in fibers. I asked Sally to share the story of her passion for quilting in her own words, and to mention some of the quilters that have influenced her own creative journey.
Posted in Ability, art and technology, Art Techniques, Creative Play, Fabulous Artists, Fiber arts. Fabric design, Spoonflower
Tagged Alex Anderson, and most recently Ricky Tims, Anita Shackelford, Bettina Havig, Elsie Campbell, Gwen Marston, Harriett Hargrave, Jeana Kimball, John Flynn, Julie Silber, Kim Diehl, Libby Lehman., quilting, Ruth McDowell, Sally Noland, Sally Schneider, Sharon Schamber, Suzanne Marshall
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An Art Workshop Were Everyone is a Learner and Everyone is a Teacher
Teaching others is a critical part of my creative process. My workshops remind me of the expansive possibilities and promise of my favorite medium, watercolor, as well as of how mixed-media collage can make use of visual materials to aid creative thinking processes. Continue reading
Day Eighteen -Two Artists Share A Painting A Day for 33 Days
Day eighteen in the 33 Paintings in 33 Days Project of Alaskan artist Nikki Kinne and Wisconsin artist Helen Klebesadel. Continue reading
Posted in A Painting A day, Ability, Creative Play, Inspiration, Watercolor
Tagged a painting a day, alaskan art, art, Kinne, klebesadel, poppy, watercolor
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Day Four-Two Artists Share A Painting A Day For 33 Days
This is day four in the 33 Paintings in 33 Days Project of Alaskan artist Nikki Kinne and Wisconsin artist Helen Klebesadel. Continue reading
Two Artists Share A Painting A Day for 33 Days: Two of 33
Welcome to day two in the 33 Paintings in 33 Days Project of Alaskan artist Nikki Kinne and Wisconsin artist Helen Klebesadel. So far so good. Continue reading
Two Artists Share A Painting A Day for 33 Days: One of 33
Introducing the 33 Paintings in 33 Days Project that Fairbanks artists Nikki Kinne and Helen Klebesadel agreed to undertake with an eye toward sharing simple playful paintings across the distance between Wisconsin and Alaska. Continue reading
Posted in A Painting A day, Ability, art collaboration, Beauty, Fablous Artists, Teaching Art and Creativity, Watercolor, Wisconsin Arts, Women Artists, Workshops and Classes
Tagged Alaskan Artist, artist, collaboration, klebesadel, Nikki Kinne, Painting A Day, Plein air Painting, watercolor
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Lessons in Creativity
Accepting my limitations takes on a enjoyable sense of victory when I remember to treat those limitations as intellectual challenges that require me to find creative alternatives. Continue reading
