Gwen Fox's Blog: Where creativity unites with success

IMAGINATION

There is a lot to be said for imagination. My good friend Roberta Garrett sent these photos to me and I thought you would really enjoy them.  We as artists need to see how others express their creativity. You may have seen these before but they are still candy to the eye. Bet you will [...]

WORKSHOP IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

It has been a fast paced world for me during the past couple months.  I have neglected my blog and I apologize for this. My workshop in British Columbia was beyond the word fabulous.  I taught on Victoria Island in the town of Nanaimo which is about a twenty minute flight from Vancouver. Mary Stewart, [...]

Collage Workshops

I had three fun filled workshops this fall in Taos, NM. Two were Fine Art Collage and Mixed Media with metals.  It is always fun to watch students tear paper to make art that says more than craft.  There is a lot to consider when producing fine art.  Design, color and texture come into play [...]

TAOS TO COLORADO

I left Taos, New Mexico a few days ago and returned to Colorado Springs for the winter. The drive was spectacular with autumn in her fullest beauty.  LaVeta Pass was breathtaking. Autumn is my favorite time of year with its cool temperatures filled with sunshine.  It is also a time to revel in the glory [...]

5 SECRETS TO ARTISTIC GOALS

What are your goals for your artistic future? My goals, you ask….well,  I want to be successful, be famous and make lots of money.  Great idea but let’s get serious….how are you going to make this happen? We all want to be a successful artist and unfortunately most of us hope this will happen by [...]

COLOR, DESIGN and VALUE WORKSHOP

The July workshops are finished, family has come and gone and now the garden beckons her mysterious dance to come and play.   My Color, Design and Value workshop was superb. As you can see by the pictures below we had fun yet the stretching of the brain was intense.  Each artist worked hard and produced [...]

PAINTING SURFACE

I have been working on a new painting surface lately which is quite exciting. We as artists usually work on canvas or paper.  Sometimes this limits our thinking.   I normally do Abstracts on canvas so I decided to do pears on Metal.  Why?….just because I can! Choosing a different surface on which to paint [...]

WHO JUDGES YOUR WORK?

As artists our paintings  and our ability to paint are always being judged. We submit paintings to shows for a professional artist, art critic, or professor of art to decide if our work is good enough to be selected. Our peers judge our work…we know by their “look”. Our family members rarely remain silent with [...]

NAMING A PAINTING

Naming a painting….every had this problem?  Realistic painters tend to give a name that suggest where they painted the painting or they may suggest the subject ( example, Barn in winter), while abstract painters  give more esoteric names to theirs…..example, Golden Thoughts.  So exactly what is in a name? The Wall Street Journal, Arts and [...]

MARKETING FOR ARTISTS

I have a friend who stated the other day….“Gee, it must be great being an artist because all you have to do is go into your studio and paint”! I looked at her as if she had just crawled out from under a rock.  To her it sounded like a fun day at the park…..just [...]

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