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Chasing Light - Notes on Creativity
Artist Tim Stevenson has been creating still life, porttrait and landscape paintings for over 40 years. In the tradition of the Old Masters, his watercolors have a profound effect on the viewer, often evoking surprise and astonishment; 'you can do THAT with watercolor?' Precision drawing skills and an intense understanding of color resonate for novices, practicing and professional artists, and art admirers alike.
Alabama born Stevenson is a self-taught artist who got his start at age three by drawing pictures for cookies. His practice and discipline, one who's pure desire to paint leads, not drives him in each project, has followed him through careers as a sign painter, billboard painter and art instructor. He now runs his own school in hometown Florence, Alabama. He finishes a new painting roughly every two weeks.
In this stunning collection of 75 images and over five years notes and reflections on what it means to be an artist and a creator, Stevenson has produced a treasure of inspiring wisdom for any artist, writer, maker.
You will be moved, motivated and awakened.
Purchase a copy of this ebook
Alabama born Stevenson is a self-taught artist who got his start at age three by drawing pictures for cookies. His practice and discipline, one who's pure desire to paint leads, not drives him in each project, has followed him through careers as a sign painter, billboard painter and art instructor. He now runs his own school in hometown Florence, Alabama. He finishes a new painting roughly every two weeks.
In this stunning collection of 75 images and over five years notes and reflections on what it means to be an artist and a creator, Stevenson has produced a treasure of inspiring wisdom for any artist, writer, maker.
You will be moved, motivated and awakened.
Purchase a copy of this ebook
50 pages, ebook
First published July 27, 2012
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July 30, 2012
I met Tim Stevenson in 2008 when I first moved down the street from him and his wife, Carol. Since then, I've had the great honor to take art classes under his tutelage, read this book in it's original long-hand version, be continuously awed by painting after painting, and sit for hours and hours talking creativity, the difficulties, the inspirations, the meaning, significance, purpose of a living a creative life. He has been a mentor and a friend, and helped me learn how to trust my own creative impulses and allow myself to produce, not just work, but good work.
One does not have to know the man to glean this sort of inspiration and motivation from his earned wisdom. Chasing Light feels like a conversation with a friend, a caring mentor, who wants nothing more than to demonstrate we are not alone in our creative yearnings. With 75 paintings, stunning and jumping from the screen, he has intertwined passages, some only a sentence long, of insightful reflection only a dedicated veteran could confidently profess.
As a lover of books about writing, much of them dealing, of course, with the plight of the artist, this is one of my all time favorites, right up there with Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird and Stanley Kuntiz's The Wild Braid.
Chasing Light promises to inspire.
One does not have to know the man to glean this sort of inspiration and motivation from his earned wisdom. Chasing Light feels like a conversation with a friend, a caring mentor, who wants nothing more than to demonstrate we are not alone in our creative yearnings. With 75 paintings, stunning and jumping from the screen, he has intertwined passages, some only a sentence long, of insightful reflection only a dedicated veteran could confidently profess.
As a lover of books about writing, much of them dealing, of course, with the plight of the artist, this is one of my all time favorites, right up there with Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird and Stanley Kuntiz's The Wild Braid.
Chasing Light promises to inspire.
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