Art, Visual Thinking and Creativity
The project of the café is advancing slowly and has become a little sluggish, since I had to devote a little more attention to some health issues, which require reorganizing my life in such a way as to meet some basic requirements to stop the deterioration. Still, I paint all the time, working on [...]
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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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I skipped the whole month of May. Didn’t feel like posting anything at all even though I had quite a lot of stuff happening both professionally and on a personal level.I got two illustration work commissions, one of which I had to finish in24 hours, which I did and was very proud of myself and [...]
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This week in Tel Aviv, the art scene exploded into a frenzy of the new season’s openings to which I didn’t bother to attend since it all felt just too overwhelming.An event that is supposed to be a Biennale has turned into an Annual event called Art TLV and same as last year I heard [...]
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The summer is still in full blast here but it is possible to feel some relief, especially in the evening when the breeze is coming from the sea. And with the breeze, comes the desire to return indoors and start chewing on some new compositions. I am not sure how it is for other artists, [...]
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part of my creative process is a constant shift between themes, some of which include landscape, cityscape and the human figure with all it’s variety and richness.
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I truly believe that it is very important for a developing artist, to free his hand and mind by exercising the gentle motor functions of fingers and hand helping thus to release visual preconceptions and allow intuitive understanding of the Form.
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Piano Bar “8mm” is one of my favorite places in my neighborhood of Florentin. During the day it is a lovely relaxed and peaceful cafe where I do a lot of my writing, sketching and man watching. but at night this place transforms into a magical performance and jamming dungeon of the best kind with [...]
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Yesterday, finally after a whole year of struggles, indecision and plain procrastinations, I have managed to finish a double portrait of a mother and her daughter. All in all it was a good experience in spite of the fact that it took way too long. In a way, everything has its right pace and right [...]
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Sunday morning is a working day in Israel but ever since I lived in other places in the world where Sunday is a leisure day, I try not to rush into the week and slide into it easily ,without haste. It means, usually sitting with a cup of coffee in one of the many of [...]
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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.
