Tag: art and writing
10 Ways Art Can Improve Your Writing
Writing and the visual arts may seem different, but at their cores, both are about good storytelling. I’m a life-long art junkie. I took my first drawing class when I was in kindergarten, have a degree in Fine Arts from Vanderbilt University, and sketched the Old Masters in the great museums of Europe. This year, […]
How Collaging and Scrapbooking Helps Me Write Better
I first began collaging soon after I turned thirteen; I still have sketchbooks from those years, page after page filled with collage narratives that I had abstracted from paper pieces ripped from magazines and newspapers. These sketchbooks also contained my tentative forays into water-color painting: a fuchsia bougainvillea blooming beneath a cerulean blue sky, a […]
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