The Artist's Journey Newsletter
The Artist’s Journey Newsletter October 3, 2024
The links are active for members of The Artist's Journey. Scroll down for more information.
The links are active for members of The Artist's Journey. Scroll down for more information.
Recent Uploads:
1. Sketchbook Stories: LINK
1a - Paris 2015
2. Come Walk With Me: Link
2a Meandering Thoughts: Sidewalk Art in Brooklyn (photographs)
(Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, 2024)
2b Normal Sketching: Collards and Kale Kitchen Dala
3. ART BOOK CLUB SKETCHBOOK STORY TIME Recordings of our weekly Live Sessions. Link to ABC/SST recordings in RESOURCES
3a - September 30, 2024: The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love by Alice A. Carter (the story of Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley)
3b - September 23rd session will be posted after I return to New Jersey and I can compress the video file for uploading.
4. Come Walk With Me: Archived Videos LINK
4a. Meandering Thoughts: August 11, 2024
Challenges:
Current Challenge continues the previoius challenge, inspired by the work of Candy Jernigan presented by our member Suzanne Ourth. This challenge ends on October 31st. You can, of course, continue your collection series for as long as you wish and let us know how it's going by posting your images and remarks in The Forum feed. Link
Upcoming Events:
5. Art Book Club Sketchbook Story Time Link
5a - ABCSST - Oct. 7, 2024 - the work of Tom Christopher and Ruth Baumgarte
5b - ABCSST - Oct. 14, 2024 - The veils of experience. Topic: How do our interests, skills, passions and influences overlap to create an ever evolving, unique style?
5c - ABCSST - Oct. 21, 2024 ... topic to be determined
5c - ABCSST - Oct. 28, 2024 is canceled due to further eye surgery. We will meet again on November 4th.
Book Recommendations:
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color by David Coles
Book of Earth: A guide to Ochre, Pigment and Raw Color by Heidi Gustafson
Artists to Explore:
Anna Carll and Howard Pyle
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The Artist’s Journey Newsletter is primarily an update for members of The Artist’s Journey Community to inform them of new videos, lessons, challenges and recorded events that have been uploaded for them during the previous two weeks and to notify them of upcoming plans and events available for them to participate in.
The newsletter is also available to anyone who wishes to get an idea of what our art community is about and what it has to offer to those who are on the path of nurturing their creativity regardless of what form that creativity might take. It could be painting, sculpture, sketching, photography, music, dance, writing, etc. All are welcome to participate. If you like what you see and would like to join our community, we welcome you to join us and encourage you to become an active member by sharing your work, the artists who have influenced you, your favourite books; your current projects and anything else that is part of your creative journey.
I’m Chris Carter. I’ve created The Artist’s Journey as a way to connect to, communicate with, and be inspired by artists throughout the world. The community is housed within my website, www.ChrisCarterArt.com, allowing the members full access to all of my online classes, a multitude of extra videos, references and blog posts as well as the ability to join in our weekly live sessions of Art Book Club - Sketchbook Story Time. They also have access to the recordings of live events. Members are invited to participate in our monthly or bi-monthly challenges and are encouraged to present their own special events to the community through our live room or through zoom. The live room is also available for members to meet privately with one another to have video conversations with one another. Within our community I am in the role of moderator, not teacher. In the community we are artist to artist.
After decades of exhibiting and keeping up with ever-changing ways to market my work and to share all that I’ve learned over the years by teaching live workshops and online courses, I want more time in the studio, more time to continue growing as an artist … and less time sitting at my computer dealing with the latest software updates and new trends. I want to spend time with other artists who were serious about honing skills and discovering new ways to express themselves through their art. Creating The Artist’s Journey presented itself as a possible solution. The only class I offer separately is Come Walk With Me. All of my classes, including Come Walk With Me, are available to all active members of The Artist's Journey. Members may move through the courses at their own pace. When I get the urge to create a new lesson, I add it to an existing class or I create a stand-alone mini lesson. I now have more time in the studio and new friendships are being made. We inspire, encourage and enjoy one another. Members may come and go, as they wish. Everyone is welcome to join, welcome to participate, free to leave and welcome to return.
The plan is for the newsletter to be a bi-weekly update sent out to subscribers at the beginning of the month and mid-month on either Friday, Saturday or Sunday, whichever works out the best with my schedule. In addition to the two update listings, I might include a snippet of something that I think will be of interest to both members and non-members; a book recommendation, an anecdote, a brain game, a link to a video …. I’m open to suggestions.
The current Kaleidoscope Newsletter will also be posted here on my website. If you wish to have it sent directly to your email, you may subscribe below. You do not need to be a member of our community to subscribe to the newsletter.
Please remember that to access the linked pages in the newsletter, you must login as an active member of The Artist’s Journey.
Why subscribe to the Newsletter if you're not a member? Perhaps because you want to get an idea of what is available to members, the artists we are exploring, the projects we are sharing and the new lessons being added to courses.
