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One of my intro books to art and design principles had a quote from an artist that really gave me confidence: “Art is 5% talent and 95% work” Part of that %5 has to do with luck too I think, because I don’t really believe in talent. It is something that can be [...] I love experimenting with different mediums for painting and drawing. One thing I’ve never done much of though, is digital art. Since I had promised Sean a drawing for his graphic novel, Guardians of Gaia, I thought it would be fun to color the drawing using the paint bucket tool in Photoshop. The original [...]
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Do not try to make a picture of something. Make something. Current Thoughts: Its hard to be an artist, but most everything in life is difficult. Getting a job washing dishes can be hard and doing that sort of work every day is difficult. Work has to be done. You need to work. You need to work hard and consistently. In many ways I am [...] iron and wine and turpentne cinder and smoke and airmail signs -9/15/10 The past year or so I’ve been fluttering the meaning of making art around in my head. I feel art needs a function, and I’ve found a comfortable satisfaction in the notion of art as communication. Makes sense. I mean, cave paintings in France were some of the earliest known works of art and [...] 
A delicious rush can be felt today; creeping through through my veins and tensing up my muscles as when I was a young kid opening Christmas gifts or beginning the first day of school. So much of my process not as an artist but as a person can feel so fallible and loosely [...] The American painter Robert Henri said “self acquaintance is a rare condition” and as artists and people, it is something we constantly strive for. We need to know how we relate to others, where we fit into the world and how we contribute to the larger human conscious collective. I may be alone in [...] While working in a local municipal planning department in the 70’s, I witnessed first hand the ignorance and accompanying issues brought on by poor city planning. The down town area of this municipality fell victim to this phenomenon due in part to shuttering of a major employer in the area, coupled with a rush [...] Excerpt from What is Art and Essays on Art by Tolstoy: “In reality, when we read or look at the artistic production of a new author the fundamental question that arises in our soul is always of this kind: ‘well, what sort of man are you? Wherein are you different from all the people [...] |
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