I’m a hungry artist. Oh, I have plenty of food, but I devour good art books and I am relishing a new one, Ian Roberts ‘ Mastering Composition.  Roberts is a great artist and an excellent teacher.  For awhile I have worked on the “painting a day” exercise. It was a great help.  Roberts suggests a  “composition a day.”  I already see the benefit after a few days.

I read a blog from Raynald Murphy. http://wwwartpleinair.blogspot.com/
Those who like to sketch might find it interesting.

In one of my earlier blogs, I mentioned that I collect definitions of art
Today I found an interesting statement by Iris Murdoch: “All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. “  Is that true?  What is it that we hope to accomplish by making art?

For me painting or drawing is an imitation of the Creator since God is the only really original Creator. I like what Kathyn Lindskoog says on the subject: “There are great limits upon the human imagination. We can only rearrange the elements God has provided. No one can create a new primary color, a third sex, a fourth dimension, or a completely original animal. Even by writing a book, planting a garden, or begetting a child, we never create anything in the strict sense; we only take part in God's creation. “    

Striving to create something of value is a struggle to be virtuous.