Creative Authenticity: 16 Principles to Clarify and Deepen Your Artistic Vision

by Ian Roberts

Overview

All Great Art is Authentic

Connecting to your own authentic core will fill you and your work with strength and relevance.

To those engaged in making art, an authentic voice is the most crucial yet most difficult ability to come by. Why does so much conspire to hide what is ultimately the closest, simplest thing of all?

Creative Authenticity outlines 16 principles that will help you peel back the fears, misconceptions, “shoulds” and confusion around courageous creative expression. You’ll discover:

• you are more than creative enough
• talent has little to do with your success
• the van Gogh syndrome is one of the most destructive myths of what it takes to create
• the dance of avoidance upon arriving in the studio is inevitable – learn to see through it and begin
• the necessity of finding a truthful relationship with your work so it feeds you, not torments you.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780972872324
Publisher:	Atelier Saint-Luc Press
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ian Roberts is a painter and the founder of the Atelier Saint-Luc School. He is the creator of the instructional videos Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting and Plein Air Painting. He lives in Soda Springs, California.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	13
Principle 1	Searching for Beauty	18
Principle 2	Communication	38
Principle 3	Your Home Turf	50
Principle 4	The van Gogh Syndrome	56
Principle 5	Your Craft, Your Voice	62
Principle 6	Showing Up	72
Principle 7	The Dance of Avoidance	82
Principle 8	Full/time or Part/time	94
Principle 9	Follow Something Along	102
Principle 10	Wagon Train and Scout	108
Principle 11	Working Method	118
Principle 12	Limits Yield Intensity	132
Principle 13	Being Ready to Show	140
Principle 14	You Are More Than Creative Enough	146
Principle 15	Finding Poetry in the Everyday	154
Principle 16	Holding the Big Picture	164
	Conclusion	175
	Notes	179