The Creative Process: beauty, color and design
Roots of inspiration: nature, composition and color harmony
I'm beginning to know and feel what direction I want to go, through studying the Abstract Expressionists, especially de Kooning, Rohthko and Franz Kline, has helped to clarify in my own mind what is important to me in art, and what direction I want to go. I think that design and form are very important, also nature and forms, or ideas and shapes and colors derived from nature, are important to me. I've always used nature to inspire me and to work on my imagination. I need nature, I need to be out in nature. January 1986
Design and Technique
I like to paint directly on the canvas, with rather thick paint. I like to abstract the natural form and bring out the design in objects-the essence. I want to paint according to what I feel inside, to follow my intuition. I also like to work with space-dividing space, shapes and line. Color harmony and structure are also important, as I design, arrange and abstract. January 1986
The creative journey: observation and intuition
Art and Creative Journey
I didn't learn much in Idaho Falls High School art classes nor on the Art Department at the University of Idaho. I learned all of these below after I graduated in 1953 and returned to Idaho Falls through the Idaho Falls Art Guild workshops and Rick's College:
From Sergei Bongart, Russian-American painter: color harmony-exaggerated color, dynamic but controlled color relationships
From Jan Herring, American painter: proportions of the head, and Composition Rules from her book "The Painter's Composition Handbook," and "glaze" painting technique
From Rick's College, Idaho, Art Department: design and composition elements of color, shape, space, texture and line
