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Kay WalkingStick (born March 2, 1935) is a Native American landscape artist and a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Her later landscape paintings, executed in oil paint on wood panels often include patterns based on American Indian rugs, pottery and other artifacts.

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Real success is making art your whole life.

Art, Life, Making, Real, Success, Whole

Be of good cheer, miracles do happen.

Cheer, Good, Happens, Miracle, Miracles

Ya wanna be an artist? Make art!

Art, Artist, Make, Wanna

When in doubt, make a red painting.

Doubt, Make, Painting, Red

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

Doe, Painting, Surface, World

Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art.

Art, Focus, Hate, Thinking, Way

What is it you want your audience to see? Who is your audience? What does surface signify? Does it carry meaning? Do you fully understand and know what you are doing? WHY are you using encaustic?

Doe, Want, Surface, Meaning, Know, Signify

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects
space
color
directional flow - then content. Interpret.

Color, Flow, Interpret, Space, State

Tell the viewer something that they need to know.

Communication, Know, Needs, Tell, Viewer, Viewers

Get rid of your little darlings.

Darling, Darlings, Littles, Progress, Rid

Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself.

Focus, Research, Stimulus, Stimulate, Collect

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.

Art, Methodology, Technique

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

Art, Expect, Make, Scream, Soul

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me. . . to carry meaning.

Abstraction, Carry, Doe, Expect, Imagery

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

Art, Close, Core, Ego, Trying

It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to be able to take rejection well. 2) Do your homework. Check out galleries. Don't just walk in with your work. Be as professional as you can. 3). . . there is a gallery for everybody.

Gallery, Homework, Important, Know, Rejection, Strong

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

Afraid, Art, Expression, Mean, Way

Do you spend a couple of hours every day in your studio?

Couple, Hours, Studio, Studios

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers. . . layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

Art, Layers, Lines, Relate, Symbols, Vary

Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension. . . additive
subtractive.

Dimension, Dimensions, Encaustic, Gives, Giving, Mediums