17 Quotes On Making Connections

Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes on making connections. “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after...

Join Me For My Free Artist Talk Online Aug 15 @ 08:30 PM

Landscapes Within Landscapes & Process . Enjoy an evening of pure inspiration as artist/photographer/writer John Paul Caponigro illuminates his creative process – not just where and how, but also why. John Paul will show how he creates synergy between the diverse disciplines of drawing, photography,...

Ekphrastic Writing – When Words Make Art Speak

Read Amanda Flagler’s poetic response here. . Ekphrasis. If it sounds like Greek to you, you’re right. It means description. Capable of taking any form, ekphrastic writing is a genre that interprets works of art, expanding the experiences they offer and possibly even their meanings....

6 Tools You Can Use To Improve Continuity Between Still Images

“Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.” –  Bertrand Russell Continuity lies at the heart of the art of storytelling. The types of images selected and the transitions made between images presented in groups can be powerful tools...

Use The Power Of Storyboarding To Structure Your Photographic Explorations

The first time I went to Namibia I used this storyboard to find more ideas and structure my thinking. Find out how it worked out at the end of this article.   Movies are rarely shot without storyboarding them. Consider storyboarding your still photography projects...

How To Use Metaphor To Make Stronger Photographs

Zoomorphism animates and connects these images.   Photographs can often be well-crafted transcriptions of their subjects and nothing more. It’s usually that elusive ‘something more’ that makes great photographs, elevating them beyond craft to art. How can you bring more to your images? One way...

How To Strike Up A Lively Conversation With Your Images

Decades ago, my friend Jeff Schewe asked me, “We both know how to do a lot of things to our images but how do you decide what to do to your images?” My response surprised him, “Talk with them.” Let me expand on that for...

Making The Most Of Challenging Times By Living The Creative Life

Recently I had a wide-ranging conversation with Richard Bernabe for his Beyond The Lens podcast. I shared stories about being raised in a family of artists and how making art has helped me deepen my connections with the natural world and sustain me during these...

State The Nature Of The Influence On You Simply – One Word, Phrase, Sentence

Complexity Intuited Order Eliot Porter saw a more complex geometry in nature. All types of artists look closely at their influences; particularly as they’re finding their own voice, or at key stages in their creative development, for many, it’s a lifelong process. The comparisons and...

Why Tracking Your Influences Is So Important

“Who are your influences?” It’s a question often asked by professors to help artists grow, critics to place artists’ work and ideas in context, and audiences to understand artists’ creations. It’s also a question we can ask to do all of these things for ourselves....