LESSONS FROM !
THE ARTISTS
#iplza16
@amyburvall
me, !
sketching!
everywhere
never say…
@adambellow
aren’t we all?
caves at chauvet!
32-30,000 BP
venus of willendorf!
28-25,000
Instagram Art
what can we!
learn from!
great artists?
once revolution
now ubiquitous
!
appreciate the fleeting!
…and the era in which you live
Monet, 1877
Manet, 1882
Renoir, 1880s
Degas,1893
!
personal!
learning
!
get messy !
and real
!
not reactive
proactive
leverage the tech of the day
!
tools inform technique!
“we shape our tools and our tools shape us”
marshall mcluhan
break your bubble
new perspective
!
get a posse !
+ collaborate
rise above !
your roots
move on…and up
stay curious +!
sharpen senses
I have the answers to the questions
they never ask
- Gwen Burvall
!
who you know !
will help you grow
make thinking !
visible
creativity is…
connecting dots…
inspiration!
takes no!
vacation
make disciplines!
dance together
!
mastery comes !
with muscle
think bigger…!
…and differently
do the unexpected
see the angel in the marble!
!
make your work public
tell stories!
visual
ancora imparo!
“live to learn” !
bricolage is best…!
…be resourceful !
find beauty in the broken!
find a homebase!
make work easily sharable
“At last I don’t !
know how to draw”
The Wow and the Wonder
“We are surrounded !
by poetry on all sides”
“just slap anything on !
when you see a blank canvas !
staring at you in the face…”
“break the spell of ‘you can’t’”
Do … to Learn
Make something !
GOOD!
every day
“learn the rules !
like a pro…!
…so you can !
break them !
like an artist”
cultivate !
a constellation of creatives
!
to know what you’re going to draw!
you have to begin drawing!
work backwards
Inspiration exists…!
but it has to find you working
change it up - !
reinvent yourself
make like Madonna
!
!
look to the past to look forward
“art washes away from the soul!
the dust of everyday life”
get in !
a creative habit
“It takes a long time!
to grow young”
stand for something!
GREATER PURPOSE:
use the platform !
you are given
!
painting is not done to !
decorate apartments…!
!
…it is an instrument of war
live in the “why not?”!
find your gift…!
…then give it away
!
seek serendipity!
flaunt the fails !
marvel at mistakes
curate cleverly!
be awed by the ordinary
You need to let the!
little things that would !
ordinarily bore you !
suddenly thrill you.
see things in new ways
tinker, try, and test!
find your niche!
make your own movement
“The idea is not to!
live forever, !
it is to create !
something that will.”
leave a legacy
live !
lightheartedly
paint what you like!
and die happy
selfies!
who’s inspired you
to change something about
the way you teach?
#getsmART
@amyburvall
www.amyburvall.com

#GetsmART Lessons from Artists #ipadpalooza16