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Natalie Goldberg On 'Thunder and Lightning'
Do you feel you need to write a book right away to qualify as a writer? What's the next step in writing a book once you have your written notes together? There are preconceived ideas about writing and Natalie puts them to rest.

To Improve Your Creative Output and Innovation, Improve Your Ideas.

Seeing Like an Artist: Edges and Space
Do you ever get frustrated when you're trying to draw something you're looking at, and just can't get the shapes to look right? ... Humans have instinctively viewed the world as positive and negative space. ... Drawing is easier when you know how to use positive and negative space.

'Dr. Hope' And His Act Of Kindness
Get to know the "doctor" and his charitable contributions to society. See how he works with teachers so that they can get the needed supplies, books and other things for their students.

Tim Anders (Doctor Hope) has certainly had an interesting childhood. His mother was an actress and his father was a Catholic priest which indeed created problems with family life.

Authors : Lynda Lehmann

Celebrating the "Ubiquitous Beauties of the World"

Fruitful © Lynda Lehmann Lynda Lehmann studied Art Education at Penn State University and earned her BFA from Hofstra. She studied advertising at Farmingdale College and textile design at the School of Visual Arts, and worked as a commercial artist before pursuing painting at the Art League of Long Island. Lynda has enjoyed writing four middle-grade and YA mainstream novels with environmental and feminist themes, and several short stories in a sociological science fiction genre. She has shown her art in numerous juried and solo shows in the New York area. Her paintings and digital art are abstract, while her photography is realistic. You can view her work at lehmann.myexpose.com.

Art & Creativity Articles with Lynda Lehmann

An Interview with Lynda Lehmann
By Molly Anderson-Childers
Lynda shares her thoughts and expertise on the rewards of being an abstract expressionist painter, working deeply in the creative process, and advice for new artists "breaking in" to the business end.

In Praise of Process
By Lynda Lehmann
I awaken with ideas and images floating precariously on the surface of my consciousness, like glowing beacons on a turbulent stream.

"Don't Ask Me Why!"
By Lynda Lehmann
When a relative or friend has asked me why I think this or that painting or drawing is pleasing or compelling or beautiful, I throw the question back at him or her.

THINK SMALL (No, I'm not Joking...)
By Lynda Lehmann
I know, I know! You’re thinking: “All my life, people have been telling me to ‘think big!’ So why is this nut telling me to ‘think small?’”

What is Art? Traditional Versus Abstract
By Lynda Lehmann
Imagination makes all things possible, and art is the most profound outgrowth of the human imagination that is not subservient to external purposes.

Art and Beauty
By Lynda Lehmann
For years I have been asking myself: "Why does beauty exist? Just why is there beauty in the world at all?"

The Artist: "Tortured Soul" or Joyous Participant?
By Lynda Lehmann
My response is to reject this stereotype, just as I routinely reject other stereotypes.

ART and POWER
By Lynda Lehmann
I think most of us would agree that producing art gives us power.

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