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Right Or Left ?

Posted by Iva Milson on Wednesday, February 27, 2013,


Music always takes the lead, but which hand do I use to paint with, Right (left brain) or Left (right brain)?  Simple question, but complicated answer. Growing up to be right handed was terribly important for my left handed mother; therefore, all activities with pencils, crayons, paint brushes, or eating emphasized using the right hand (left brain). It was not acceptable or normal to be left handed. There was once a stigma about being left handed. So the question is does the Music take me le...


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Music is color.

Posted by Iva Milson on Sunday, February 3, 2013,
Does paint follow music or does music follow paint.  When Iva paints, she paints with music and though she loves oils it's really jazz, zydeco, and the blues.  Music is color.  Why do you think they call it THE BLUES? 
 Music is color and color is music and together they become art, Iva's Art.  A B-flat flies on the page, with a streak of green.  A-sharps dot orange onto the canvas as a strain of low notes wash a beautiful powder blue over a sunset.  A startling purple rush of saxophone strain...
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Music Leads and Paint Follows

Posted by Iva Milson on Thursday, January 31, 2013,
When I worked as Social Worker in an Adult Day Care facility, or the Employee Assistance Program, or the locked psychiatric facility; I used music to open up the communication, and art for counseling. Determined to shift the focus of my painting and heal myself. I registered for a 10 day intensive of painting with music.


Music was the key. Everyone in my family played an instrument. I played the piano, but the piano instructor kept hitting my fingers when I played a wrong note.  I quit, beca...
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Outsider Art

Posted by Iva Milson on Thursday, January 24, 2013,
In trying to find something to blog about, I thought I might share my Art Diary entries regarding my personal feelings about classifying myself as an Outsider Artist. After attending a workshop, 'ART Tune-UP', (June '06'), I was encouraged to explore and examine ' the categories my style fits in '. I was searching to discover where I fit, stylistically in the art world. I had many questions. But after a life changing accident (July '06'), I started considering 'Outsider Art', the best fit and...

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