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Back to school for a day.
On a beautiful Saturday, after days of rain ...
the skies were cloudless and a perfect blue.
All the trees were washed and sparkling.
I had signed up for an all day class in ProCreate.
Procreate
is at powerful sketching, painting and
illustration app designed for mobile devices.es.
It's a useful app, but, for me, has a big learning curve and
will require daily practice. My comfort zone is in Photoshop.
The class was offered by Huntington Beach Art League,
taught by Judy Todd who creates amazing fine art with ProCreate.
Well attended by twenty artists, all learning and taking notes.
Have you ever accidentally touched the reverse button
on you camera and taken a picture of yourself? Pretty scary!
It was about this time that my brand new iPadPro froze
in the ProCreate app and I couldn't continue.
As you can see, I was lost!
The Brain Chemistry of Collage
In Kolaj #24, author, mental health professional, and collage artist Laurie Kanyer considers what is going on in the brain when an artist is making collage.
When an artist creates a collage, they use areas of the brain and body systems that calm the body and tap into creative problem solving.
Additionally, collage making meets emotional needs, providing the artist a tool to identify and express feelings and life experiences. By making a collage, people do not have to be emotionally constipated. It provides provides a way to put into the world events that are too hard or possibly even unsafe to speak out loud. The benefit of the symbolic representation of a feeling is that the creator can express, see and share that feeling in a collage.
Good to know?
A smile for Sunday ...
