BonnSpirit  You Can Paint

Remember...

1.  You are an artist.  Think of yourself as an artist.

2.  You are enough.

3.  Do not let your subject control your intention.  

4.  Ask your painting what it needs.  Feel what it tells you.  

5.  If there is more than one subject in your painting.  Ask them how they
feel about each other.  i.e.  tree and landscape, two people, an apple
and an orange, a person and a chair.

6.  Explore the feelings that you encounter as if they were your own.

7.  Painting is about understanding from within.

8.  Keep painting.

9.  This is not the only painting you will create.

10. Your painting is finished when you can no longer add or subtract
anything to make the vision more certain.

11. The viewers will complete your painting within themselves.  Invite
them.

12.  If the reason you are painting is to discover and communicate with
the Creator, you cannot fail.

13. Remember, you are enough.
Artist Prayer...

I ask the great unseen Creator to allow me to feel the creativity of my soul.

Open my eyes to the creative energy that you have placed me in.

Clean the doorways of my perception so that I can see the power of your
life in all things.  

Teach me to create from your deep well of life so that the visions in my
paintings restore and heal.

As I paint, I put my trust in the love and guidance of the Creator.
Thank you for visiting You Can Paint page.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint,"
then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.  
                                              Vincent Van Gogh   
                                             Mar. 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890
                                             French Artist
Basket of Summer
by Bonn 2008
Acrylic painting on Canvas 11 inches x 14 inches
                         Words From Successful Artists

    "Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more
than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. "                 
                                                Michelangelo      Mar. 6, 1475 - Feb. 18, 1564
                                             Italian Artist               

   "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
                                             Edgar Degas       July 19, 1834 - Sept. 27,  1917   
                                              French Artist


   "It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all
very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. "  
                                              Edouard Manet   Jan. 23, 1832 - April 30, 1883
                                              French Artist

   "I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can,
without being afraid of painting badly. If their painting doesn't improve by itself,
it means that nothing can be done -- and I wouldn't do anything!"   
                                              Claude Monet    Nov. 14, 1840 - Dec. 5, 1926
                                              French Artist

   "What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see
the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to
imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads
of his dreams to rise from the dust. "  
                                               Salvador Dali    May 11,1904 -Jan. 23,1989
                                               Spanish Artist

     "Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need
of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but
because of its revelation of a life's experience."
                                                Robert Henri   June 25, 1865 - July 12, 1929       
                                                 American Artist