Painting Classes Roswell, GA

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

Why do we have fear about trying new things?  I think one of the many reasons is that we realize how much we don't know and that we might not do a good job.  I tell my students (and have to remind myself) that the canvas is just cotton and watercolor paper is just a dead tree.  What's there to be afraid of?  

The only way to make new discoveries in art is to try something that you've never done before.  I love making new discoveries and seeing where they'll take me.  I still believe that growing as an artist is one of the best journeys that we'll ever take! - Jill

Please enjoy these recent finished works by my awesome students.

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70 Websites for Finding Awesome looking Images Online for Free

So, you want to paint African elephants or an Italian city and you can't just hop on a plane and spend two weeks touring the globe to take your photographs, and you certainly don't want to infringe on other artist's or photographers copyrighted images.  What do you do? 

I've found a fabulous website that shares 70 websites that offer stunning copyright free images! Most of the websites have images that are 100% free.  Other sites have images with Creative Commons Licenses.  You'll need to check the site to be sure what you're looking at.  The link provided below also has a link to read the definition of a Creative Commons License so that you'll understand what it means.  However, there are so many websites that are completely copyright free that I wouldn't mess with anything else. 

CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW.  ENJOY AND HAPPY PAINTING!!!!

Websites at: http://skinnyartist.com/cheat-sheet-for-finding-free-images-online/

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"Art Enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." - Thomas Merton


The above quote is one of my favorites.  What a wonderful dichotomy that we can both find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time!

Please enjoy more works by my awesome students.  To see more student photos or to inquire about taking art classes, please visit my website.  CLICK HERE

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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle

Please enjoy the wonderful work of my students.  I love seeing the diversity of what everyone is doing!

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Art Classes Roswell, GA

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher

Perseverance is not giving up.  It's the effort required to do something and keep doing it even though it might be difficult.  Perseverance means to abide by something with uncompromising resolution.  

Perseverance is one of the greatest lessons that I've learned in becoming the artist that I am today.  Perseverance will be one of the greatest commodities in determining the artist I will become tomorrow.  If I could leave one lasting lesson with my students, it would be  to Never Give Up!

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"Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work." - Albert Einstein

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Abraham Lincoln

I think it's a two quote week because all that hard work that Albert Einstein talked about can lead to frustration and that's where Abe Lincoln's quote comes in!  I'm so proud of all the hard work that my students have been putting into their paintings.

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 "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." Vincent Van Gogh

If you wanted to build more muscle mass, you'd join a gym and start lifting weights.  Can you imagine going your first day and walking out looking like Mr. America?  Of course not!  You'd realize that muscles are built one workout session at a time, over a period of time.

The same is true with becoming a good artist.  It takes time to train your eye to see what you're truly looking at and what's in your imagination.  It takes practice and accepting difficult challenges.  Nobody goes to the gym for their first session and walks out in prime condition and nobody sits down at an easel for the first time and paints a masterpiece!

Van Gogh became proficient at drawing before he began painting.  Over the course of his short life, he completed over a thousand drawings!  No wonder he said that great things are done by a series of small things brought together!  

Please enjoy these new works and works in progress by my wonderful students.  To see more of my students work, or to inquire about taking art classes, please CLICK HERE.
  
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Happy New Year From Jill Saur Fine Art

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!  

So, if you know me, you know that I'm usually talking about not trying to be perfect because NOTHING IN LIFE IS PERFECT.  On the other hand, I talk about striving for excellence.

Striving for excellence in art is about expressing yourself using your God given talent, having fun while doing it, and discovering how to be able to put the brush down after your last stroke, exhale, and smile while saying, “It is finished”.

In the process of striving for excellence in art, you're going to do some things that you don't like.  You might call them mistakes.  You won't learn how to do what you do like until you allow yourself to get through the things that you don't like!  Allow yourself to make mistakes because it means that your trying something new!  It means that you're experimenting and challenging yourself.  It means that you're not playing it safe.  That's the secret to getting to the smile part of my quote. :)  Trust me, there's nothing like putting your brush down after that last stroke and smiling and saying to yourself, "It Is Finished".

So, cheers to the New Year.  Cheers to trying new things and never ever giving up!  Thanks to all my students who've made this past year a blessed one.  I have the utmost respect and  appreciation for all your thoughtfulness and kindness.  

I do what I love and I love what I do and I look forward to bringing in the New Year with each and every one of you! - Jill Saur - Website:   www.JillSaurFineArt.com

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"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius

I love this quote by Confucius.  It reminds me of my dedicated students who give their all when working on their art!  Please enjoy my students work below!

Getting up and going about each day can either be seen as a chore or preparation for a banquet.  When I'm working on a painting, I can only have the best outcome when I'm going at it with all my heart.  

I think this applies to any state of being.  Van Gogh and countless other artists painted when their hearts were happy, sad, and even broken.  They worked through their state of mind and emotions "with all their heart" and they created masterpieces!  Of course they used their knowledge about style, technique and color theory too.  Creating art is about the use of our minds and our hearts and using them to the fullest capacity! 

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