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While reading “The Zen of Creativity” – John Daido Loori, I have passed over many topics that I have felt like sharing with every artist I know. Most are ideas relating to the artistic process and the roots of human art making. These couple of pages I found especially applicable to any media. So [...]
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The weather was kinda crummy this weekend and I loved it. I stayed in and drew quite a bit. It was lovely. Here are a couple. -Mat Some photos from the Odyssey Art Exhibition. MOCT was saturated with diverse works from young and emerging Milwaukee artists, including a few Sabuers. The event was very successful in having a great time and gaining exposure for many young artists. The event is an inspiration to all who want to create a more flourishing [...] 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 [...] In some of my research I’ve been looking at old fairytales and myths, recently becoming interested in the Jack and the Beanstalk tale. I found an interesting article analyzing and comparing it, I thought it was a good read. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/marvels_and_tales/v015/15.1goldberg.pdf -Nick 
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 [...] I show up and work, even if its once a week. I always wanted to be a full time artist, so back in 1999, I committed to getting a studio space where I went every Friday. I eventually developed “art muscles”, so I could sustain longer periods of time painting and as a result, ended up having a larger body of work. [...] |
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