Life, Paint and Passion - Michele Cassou

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Biographie:
Michele Cassou was born and raised in southern France. As a young adult she moved to Paris where she studied law, literature, and art. Inspired by watching children paint, she discovered a way to express herself spontaneously and without need for conventional training. By her early twenties painting had become her fulltime passion. A unique approach to creativity grew out of her many years of just painting for herself and her intense desire to share her work led her to work with other people and to lead groups in the creative process. In 1976 she founded the Painting Experience Studio in San Francisco where she has touched many people's lives through ongoing classes and workshops, as well as in centers throughout the United States. She continues to paint and teach in the San Francisco Bay area.

Sommaire:
the right image if it's already painted in your head, why paint it? be careful, they might teach you something! the wisdom of the child chaos, the soil of creation beauty the I want just play pick only ripe apples awaken your image maker! sensing exploring the unknown what is ugly? the mind is a thief do not kill the void abstract forms or concrete images? don't trample the flowers creative destruction feeling and painting interpretation vs. insight the body knows if you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you! on second thought... dark shadows on finishing welcome to the earth self-discovery a little life left resistance to create is to be a little lost the brick wall: creative blocks a horse is a horse is a horse to care and not to care break the rules! follow your brush, but don't follow your brush tricks and crutches repetition, compulsion, and indulgence feeling vs. emotion monsters unleashed! is it therapy? erotic images painting god going toward the light levels of completion a good comment is a bad comment the process is the teacher dark or light? you are not your painting! creativity and the spirit art process as spiritual practice if painting were just about painting...

appendix: brushes, paints, and paper