In this workshop you will learn that artistic growth comes out of actions.
Wiring your mind for artistic success through iteration, intuition, and discipline will allow you to step away from a fear based artistic life. You will learn to turn off the internal sensor by attacking the boundaries you have placed on yourself and will never again say, “I should be making art right now”.
By sharing generative experiences we will be pushing through fear, creating art in the process.
In addition to the indoor studio component, we will be going on a “Think Walk” – making the world our studio – so wear comfortable clothing and walking shoes. Please bring an open mind and your own PORTABLE creation tools of choice to each session. (mobile phone, laptop, sketchbook, notebook, watercolor, pencils, video camera, still camera, etc.)
The take away is documentation of your work, and a new way of approaching creation.
Published by Pete Ippel
Pete Ippel, the son of a dancer and a musician, was born in Oak Park, Illinois and has been surrounded by the arts since birth. He moved to Morris, Illinois in 1989 and started to participate in athletics rather than dance. After high school, Pete attended Cornell University where he received a BA in psychology and a BFA in photo / digital art making. He continued to follow his sporting dreams in the high jump, which culminated in a school record leap of 7 feet 1/2 inch in 2001.
In May 2004 he attained an MFA degree in the New Genres department of the San Francisco Art Institute. Presently Pete is a practicing artist whose work is in numerous private collections and has been exhibited in New York, California, and internationally.
Mr. Ippel resides in Working Artists Ventura, a sustainable artist community in southern California. In addition, he teaches art, is a web developer, an active blogger, and still high jumps from time to time.
As a passionate problem solver and a pragmatic optimist, Pete’s art and his life are full of exciting challenges.
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Pete,
Bravo…I gave a church service once years ago that applies the same principle…(“Wiring your mind for artistic (any) success through iteration, intuition, and discipline will allow you to step away from a fear based artistic (productive) life” is a WONDERFUL way to put it.
This is the Holmes theory of lifestyle changes and “in the now living”…your ‘Think Walks’ reminds me of many American Indians’ walking meditations (particularly within a labyrinth – also Celtic)…
All in all it this is all very inspiring…creativity as “action thought”…much like the TIbetans’ assertion that “Every Breath Is a Prayer” !!!