Art, Visual Thinking and Creativity
Two weeks after coming back from London and the memory of the visit is fading fast. I am back to my regular activities and that of course includes my daily sketch activities. I am in a process of figuring out how to add a feature box with my daily watercolor sketch and make it available for sale [...]
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Sketching in the cafe is one of my own regular activities as well as an integrsl part of my classes. Allowing synchronization between the gentle motorics of the hand and the brain via the eyes, creates a great oportunity to exersise letting go.
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The element of Wood is the most obvious place to start the wheel of creativity. It is true that wheels have no beginnings and no end but there is a sound logic to start at the place of Inception. Is the first step and prerequisite to initiate the cycle of creativity.The opposites must meet [...]
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Sitting in a lovely cafe called “why not”. Why not, indeed. This place is kind of discovery for me and quite refreshing change from my usual neighborhood of Florentin where I live. Actually, it is a park so no wonder I am so enthusiastic about the calm and quite. Earlier did some sketching of the [...]
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It was unusually noisy in my neighborhood café this morning and it took away much of the pleasure of my daily sketching exercise. Still, somehow in all the chaos, there was a weird correspondence between the visual clutter on my table and the audio clatter. Here is also a short video that shows some of [...]
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This morning I had an opportunity to play with iPad brushes application.I played with this application on my iPhone before but with the bigger screen of iPad it’s a whole new ball game.At the risk of sounding like a commercial for Steve Jobs , I think that this is a truly remarkable device that will [...]
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When the model is good, the whole process of painting is full of magic. What is a good model you may ask? In my opinion, a good model is someone who’s character is inspiring and at the same time can sit in comfort for extended periods of time. Preferably, also someone who has an appreciation of the creative process that feels like contributing to the creation of Ar
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My neighborhood offers many possibilities for painting some wonderfully chaotic cityscapes.Here I am exploring a composition with a ruined house which offers endless opportunities to stir the imagination. [flowplayer src='http://www.joeralt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sketchTheHood.flv' width=550 height=350]
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I love children’s art .Once in a while I get to know a child that allows me to peek at their scribbling and doodles and I feel very privileged to be shown into their visual ideas. There is always much originality within the context of the known and well defined patterns.Love those bright colors and [...]
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Just returned from a day and half trip to the north where I teach art once in two weeks in this lovely kibbutz called Yir’on. The weather is exceptionally warm which makes it ideal for landscape painting, so this is exactly what I did. Packed my portable easel and did some sketching in the sun.Yiron [...]
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My name is Josef Ralt. I am an artist, painter, art teacher and creativity facilitator. My blog is about anything that is connected with art, visual thinking and creativity in all it's forms.It is also where i think aloud about the intriguing relationship between the normal everyday events of my life and how they evolve eventually into shapes, colors and forms on my canvass.
