Creative Pursuits: Finding the Right Color in Your Palette

Mary P. Murphy

The Arts

•  Structure/Composition •  Unity •  Color •  Value or contrast or cognitive

dissonance

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Typewritten Text

INVITATION TO THE DANCE -- with music of the same name

Nature or nurture?

Joan Perrin-Falquet

Clare Mann

Margaret Phillips

Why paint?

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”

Walt Whitman

How a painting starts Reference material

Rough thumbnail; final drawing

Experiment with pigments,

values, skin tones

Finding inspiration…

•  Flowers •  Landscape around me •  Travel •  Personal

Landscape around me

Travel

Personal

“Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to

everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.”

Edward de Bono