About the blog
I am so glad you are here! I am beth vendryes williams, a visual artist. Creativity is a universal and invaluable skill. As an artist, I apply my creativity to paper and canvas. However, developing and training the mind to think outside the proverbial box is as important to the success of the CEO of a Fortune 500 company as it is to an artist. This blog strives to help you discover the potential of your creativity and to harness that potential to enhance your life.
I explore with you the creative process and thinking tools that work to expand thinking. I am motivated to investigate ways to think more creatively because I have need to change a lot of situations in order to accomplish my goals. And sometimes I realize I need to adapt my goals.
Once you learn to think outside the box you can apply that essential skill wherever and whenever you want!
Bio
I live on Long Island, New York with my supportive husband, who is a scientist and master gardener. Our 3 sons visit for varying periods of time now that they are pursuing their own careers and studies. We also share our home with two very funny golden retrievers.
My journey as an artist began as a child with an irrepressible desire to create. Strands of dried grass were materials to build sculptures and smooth beaches were blank canvases to paint with my hands.
What is so fascinating to me, is that the lifelong process of making art has transformed my way of thinking!
I live with the attitude of an artist. To an artist, everything is a valuable work of art. A mistake, a wayward slip of a pen, is an opportunity to create something new. In my blog, I share my gift of creativity with you.
Thus the title,” Make art. Transform life. improve your creativity with or without crayons”.
Feel free to contact me.
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Laura - Thanks for sharing your thoughts as we enter this New Year. It is good to see your pictures that you create. They are beautiful! It seems to be snowing???….
Amy - beth…thank you for sharing your online space with me! I am fascinated by your words, thoughts, and ideas! Contine to share!
Amy - beth…thank you for sharing your online space with me! I am fascinated by your words, thoughts, and ideas! Contine to share!
Nina - Yes, I like keeping the trees around.
I love the ‘playing together’ piece. Thank you !!!
Have a great week!
– ng
Nina - Yes, I like keeping the trees around.
I love the ‘playing together’ piece. Thank you !!!
Have a great week!
– ng
Tom Vendryes - the site looks excellent…
bethvw - Ailish,
I am so glad you have enjoyed viewing my work and reading my commentaries.!Are you still painting or involved with art in some way? What specifically do you find piques your interest?
Ailish Coughlan - Hello Beth,
My sister forwarded me an email that led me to your website and blog. Im really enjoying reading and viewing your art pieces. I actually took one of your art classes awhile back and your work and sites are inspiring. Thanks, Ailish
rensond - Funny, I was just hanging out my sheets in this wonderful fall wind we have at long last today and in between everything else i looked this up and there was a new breeze inside too. Beautiful movement. Makes me think of the smell of clothes coming in from outside. karen
Nina - Oh! And that was a conicidence, Ladies! Lovely new blog, Beth!!! And I really like the images – Blessings! – ng ( I got in!!!! )
bethvw - And I didn’t consciously notice the tree interacting behind until I saw the photo.When I look at the sketch book drawing above, it has surprised me because it inadvertently utilizes some of the same linear and flowing qualities of the photograph!
bethvw - You are right! I was exhausted , taking a rest and then I looked up saw this beautiful sight!
Laura - I like the way the shirt and the trees in the distance interact.
Laura - I am drawn to the photo of the top blowing in the breeze. Feels like I am lying right underneath–like when I was a little kid!! It gives me a dancing feeling.