Browsing Archive: October, 2019

What's the Point?

Posted by annmarie gallivan on Thursday, October 24, 2019, In : Artists & Makers

Every other month, for the past 4 years, I have taught a young adult art class at our local library. We do lots of interesting projects and the kids are always enthusiastic and jump right into creating. Today I'm going to do a lesson on Pointillism,a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer's eye. It was developed by Georges Seurat with the aim of producing a greater degree of luminosity and brilliance of color,

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The First Post of the Rest of Your Life

Posted by annmarie gallivan on Wednesday, October 23, 2019,

Hey now!

I've just returned from taking a brief call on social media use and one of the suggestions was BLOG! I thought to myself, you have started so many blogs that you never published that you could give a class on them. Then myself answered back - but she's letting fear stop her from hitting publish!

So here I am, I'm just going to do it and see what comes of it. I'm in the midst of planning a bunch of different events while trying to get ready for the holidays. I've taken on the role o...