Joyful Effort
When joy and effort coalesce, the Fine Art of Seeing gives us unbounded satisfaction. Individual elements incorporate into a fine art design and work together as a resolved image.
Created by Joan Kaye
Emphasis creates dominance and focus. Emphasis incorporates color, values and shapes as well as contrast to make a center of interest.
Scenes from nature invigorate us contacting us with our ground of being. Tides shift, sky clears and clouds appear. The many moods of the ocean give us joy and awe. Turbulence and calm take turns, and wonder makes me pause when I look out my window at the ocean. The sought image is remembered.
Light during the day changes colors and affords us enormous variety.
Numinous and creative joyful effort induces, incites, arouses, surrounds, transcends, and permeates.
Black and white again simplifies the image and gives it stark drama. The lone chair adds a contemplative element. The curved road is uneven and winding and provides additional complexity. It is a replication of life.
Color affects our mood and how we relate to a subject and a scene.
Joyful effort is energetic and uses space in its expansiveness.
Joyful effort is active rather than passive energy.
Joyful effort is light as opposed to heavy.
Joyful effort radiates in all directions. It enfolds an object. Brain and heart glow.
Try to avoid color confusion.
The dark branch provides a diagonal line which is always powerful, and below the empty space adds emphasis. These purple orchids are regal and line themselves up like a procession.
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When joy and effort coalesce, satisfaction, the Fine Art of Seeing gives us unbounded satisfaction. Individual elements incorporate into a fine art design and work together as a resolved image. The spiral as a geometric harmony is an essential unification. Color is distinguished through the red and yellow spiral and the blue dot provides emphasis. Similarly effort and joy unifies our activity and makes us feel complete. Sometimes effort offers a surprising solution to a problem. The difficult path will remind you that some of the most valuable things in life require the greatest effort and provide great joy. |
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Relationships in The Fine Art of Seeing depend on mood, light and intent. When this relationship feels focused and the light is handled with a photographer's care, the effort is usually a worthwhile effect. The connection between joy and effort can be ambiguous, depending on who is the seer in the moment. I came upon this line of trees on a country road in Kentucky. It might have seemed desolate, but me this was a joyful Thanksgiving day holiday and taking this picture seemed effortless. |
There are emotional components that evoke feeling and response. Once they are identified and handled well, a great image is assured.
Willow trees have fluid motion and wind blows through them. As in all things, the weight here in the branches are released through bending. They sway effortlessly. In photography and in life, effort without joy is burdensome. Perhaps competence is produced, but not fulfillment. Inspiration is a state of consciousness. It is a yoga. In-spire means to breathe with an extra dollop of creativity and joy.
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Architecture provides geometry of space and form for the artist. The presence of dynamic form by an outstanding architect is immediate and announces quality that is inexpressible. The feeling of awe and pleasure from everybody that day was palpable and made me sing inside. |