When your life’s on ‘hold’ and your thoughts are either blank or meandering, regard stalemate as an alert. You’ve got to do something creative immediately. Think of it as ER for your mind. Our artist-in-residence/retro hippie here at Write Up The Road, namely A.R. Tist, and yours truly have been having these desultory convos in […]
If artists could wave a magic wand and hey presto! that stubborn tree that refused to look like anything except daubs of paint would at least begin to resemble something from a forest. Or the still life looked more like a traditional art form than a stiff life. The portrait looked less like an underworld
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Pablo Picasso in front of “The Aficionado” 1912 “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” There’s no way I could’ve thought of that, man. But it resonates with me. A.R. Tist
Of course, this may be a little – far out, y’know? I mean, like this is a cave painting from really, really long ago. Millions of years. But it goes to show that people will always find a way to create art, whether it’s representational or abstract or using whatever media. I’m glad I don’t
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I’ve found another resource for you to explore. You may be getting tired of me telling you that you’re creative, have talent you don’t know about, and you need to do something to express yourself. Well. If you’re feeling nagged, I apologize for that – but I’m not going to stop. In an ideal world,