Just to remind us all that it’s okay to wig out and do something different, on a rainy Monday or a too-quiet Saturday afternoon. Get out the markers and just doodle, or grab a brush and create some more papers for the next collage or three. Try painting a glass, looking through a glass, on […]
… what turned out to be advice, man, which I never (hardly) ever give – to go and see what was lurking in the corners of your studio and maybe scrape off old paint or whatever to make use of what you had started. This piece began over a year ago and disappeared into a
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What, 37 pieces of art done this month? In numbers/quantity instead of ‘by the numbers’ ? Bad scene. Wouldn’t do it, unless it’s a private challenge, like “I’ll paint 365 miniatures this year and publish them in an ebook as inspiration for other artists and illustrators.” But otherwise, too heavy. Not my trip. What I
I always figure it’s something heavy, man, when you get an email about the dreaded Staff Meeting. (gulp.) So it was the first thing this morning and we met in the office (we refer to it as the World Headquarters of Write Up The Road) with a blank canvas, so to speak because the email
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Who’s got the button? Man, it seems like when you look around, there’s inspiration everywhere. Just take ten seconds and count how many colors are in this jar of old buttons. And you can’t tell me that anyone who sews isn’t creative. The people in the fashion industry even have a name for inspired creations
I’m always amazed at the wild color combos Mother Nature thinks up – yet no one says, “Ugggh – those colors don’t go together, Moms. You gotta re-tint the pix.” All artists must remind themselves of this regularly, in my universe. Make it part of your groove for an easier time of actually laying down
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Ever stop to think about what a complicated language English really is? I mean, like, American English has a lot of slang, but at least on this side of the pond, we generally understand each other. We groove on it, bro. For example, take the word ‘brushes’ – you give someone the brush-off have a
“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.” – Albert Einstein Can’t get truthier than that. – A. R. Tist ”
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Man, isn’t it awesome to think that a lot of art is created today just as it was, like, centuries ago? The oil paint’s pretty much the same, the canvas gets stretched really in virtually the identical steps, and any artist is going to hold a brush similar to the way daVinci or Degas or
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Keeping a journal has been a popular pastime/hobby/therapy for many years now, yet it shows no sign of waning in popularity. There are doubtless many reasons for this, from the simple need of humans to remember what they’ve thought about, or ideas that would lead to ridicule if another person heard about them, or a
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