HeyJaredPTSD and Art
How trauma and PTSD can be the stepping stones to Supernatural Art
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Fractured Color (opens the original)
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“I loved Picasso’s art—his drawings, his paintings, but then he got weird and made all that ugly stuff.” A lady said that to me when she discovered I was an artist. Yes, he could draw like Raphel at 14, but I figured she wasn’t asking for a graduate seminar on Pablo Picasso, so I simply said, “He got bored.” Of course, that is not what happened. Or why.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kXHw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A
Color Going Mad - Beastly (opens the original)
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I have always been drawn in by that intangible, elusive, quality we call “color.” My fascination began for real when I saw the colors of the rainbow in an oil slick at a Chicago gas station when I was four. How could it be? I knew oil to be only one color—sort of brownish black. So how could it be red, orange, yellow, green blue and purple? And shimmering!I had never seen a real rainbow. Not in a Chicago sky. I knew them only from my happy kids books…and only up there with the blue birds. So yes
Color Coming Alive (opens the original)
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In my last post, The Color of Being Human, I wandered in the realm of Johannes Itten and his book, “The Elements of Color.” He made the point that the truest secrets of color are invisible to the eye and are held by the heart alone. “Color is the radiant energies that affect us positively or negatively whether we are aware of that or not.”In the Renaissance, it was about contrasts, warms and cools and lights and darks that compel thought. Tones were restrained, but the deep emotions and beliefs
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