[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] “Bright Side” 24×24, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”https://denisehopkinsfineart.com/product/bright-side-24×24-oil-on-canvas/” icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] Today’s painting is the larger, palette knife version of yesterday’s study. I didn’t move my little vase of sunflowers an inch– even the composition is the same. But painting […]
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] “In Good Company” 10×10, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”https://denisehopkinsfineart.com/product/in-good-company-10×10-oil-on-canvas/” icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] I do this often: buy flowers at the local grocery store with the intention of painting them and instead watch them slowly die in a vase on my […]
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] “Face to Face” 20×20, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”https://denisehopkinsfineart.com/product/face-to-face-20×20-oil-on-canvas/” icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] About a decade ago, I was chatting with a colleague in a writing program. When I briefly told him about my paintings and some of the trouble I […]
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] “In the Shadows” 4×4, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”https://denisehopkinsfineart.com/product/in-the-shadows-4×4-oil-on-canvas/” icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] Chapter 5 of Art and Fear gives this bit of advice about the moment when the art that has been happening smoothly for some amount of time, all […]
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] “Take a Breath” 10×10, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”https://denisehopkinsfineart.com/product/take-a-breathe-10×10-oil-on-canvas/” icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] I remember one new year’s eve where I made a list of lofty resolutions: learn to speak French, work my way through every recipe in a fancy cookbook, […]
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] “Courting approval, even that of peers, puts a dangerous amount of power in the hands of the audience…The audience is seldom in a position to grant (or withhold) approval on the issue that really counts– namely, whether or not you’re making progress in your […]
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] “Seagull’s View” 20×20, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”https://denisehopkinsfineart.com/product/seagulls-view-20×20-oil-on-canvas/” icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] “The lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need only look at the work clearly– without judgement, without need or fear, without […]
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] “‘Perfect’ Summer” 6×6, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”https://denisehopkinsfineart.com/product/perfect-summer-6×6-oil-on-canvas/” icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] Today my son walked into the familiar halls of his school, this time as a bonafide first grader. Summer and I have a complicated relationship. Like I mentioned in […]
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] “Splash” 24×24, oil on canvas[creativ_button url=”https://denisehopkinsfineart.com/product/splash-24×24-oil-on-canvas [creativ_button url=”https://denisehopkinsfineart.com/product/splash-24×24-oil-on-canvas/” icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] “The fear that you’re only pretending to do art is the (readily predictable) consequence of doubting your own artistic credentials. After all, you know better than anyone else the […]
