- $60
Visual Mining: Connecting To Your Creative Voice By Searching For Words
- Course
- 17 Lessons
SECTION 1
Visual Mining
Investigating & Honing In On What Lights You Up
In this mini course, 'Visual Mining: Connecting To Your Creative Voice & Searching For Words. We embark on a journey to discover what truly inspires us by investigating the work of three artists we admire.
In the first section, 'Visual Mining - Investigating & Honing In On What Lights You Up,' you'll delve into the unique qualities of these artists and distill your observations into a personalized word bank.
By choosing six words for each artist, you'll gather a total of 18 words that reflect what resonates with you. This exercise will help you begin to articulate your own artistic vocabulary, setting the foundation for a deeper connection to your creative voice.
Section 2
Translating Words Into Art
Using Our Word Bank To Find Our Marks
In Section 2 of 'Visual Mining: Connecting To Your Creative Voice & Searching For Words,' we transition from observation to creation.
Using the word bank developed in Section 1, you'll start to explore and experiment with mark-making and mixed media materials.
Your curated words will guide your artistic choices, helping you to connect with the feelings and expressions you want to convey.
This process will support you in discovering your unique style and artistic voice.
Section 3
Deepening Our Artistic Vocabulary & Voice
Using Our Word Bank To Write About Our Work
In Section 3 of 'Visual Mining: Connecting To Your Creative Voice & Searching For Words,' we deepen our artistic vocabulary and voice by using the 18-word Word Bank created in Section 1. With your Mark Making Experiments on hand, you'll explore how these words and marks connect and inform your writing process.
This section emphasizes the interconnectedness of visual and written expression, helping you use your mined words as clues to discover and articulate your unique artistic voice.
To aid in your writing, a list of reflection questions will be provided, guiding you to delve deeper into your creative journey and express your insights and get you thinking more deeply!
ARTIST VOICE
Why It MATTERS
Personal & Professional Explorations
In the 'Artist Voice: Why It Matters' section of our course, you'll discover how defining your artistic voice can profoundly impact both your personal and professional growth.
You'll explore how your unique voice can guide creative decisions, enhance emotional expression, and distinguish your work.
Supplemental materials will help you delve deeper, ensuring you articulate your vision with clarity and authenticity
BONUS SECTION
Poetic Writing
Using Our Word Bank, Mark Making Experiments To Write More Poetically & Soulfully
In the Bonus Section, "Poetic Writing," you'll take your word bank and mark-making experiments to explore more soulful and poetic writing.
This optional section is designed for fun, allowing you to express your creativity in a deeper, more poetic manner.
By engaging in this exercise, you'll open your heart and mind to new perspectives, letting your emotions and experiences flow freely into your work.
This process fosters a deeper connection to your artistic voice, enhancing authenticity and vulnerability in both your writing and art.
About Your Instructor
Natalie Dadamio
Artist - Soulful Creator - Intuitive Guide & Channel
Natalie Dadamio is a mixed media abstract artist living and working in Upstate, New York.
Through her abstract, contemporary and expressive style of artwork, Natalie seeks to create a conversation through colors, marks, and her naturally vivid nature.
She brings a lot of passion, heart and soul to teaching and coaching others into their own unique authentic expressions in art and life. In her classes you can expect to be challenged in an emotional way that helps bring you deeper into your marks, moments and personal self.
She believes in expressing and speaking into all sides of the emotional waters of life and letting that influence, inform and accentuate how we create and move deeper into our own work, which in turn brings more freedom to the creative and art process.