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A jolt of inspiration
I just had a moment waking up at midnight and after my brain had processed a new idea for my next painting in my Reminders for Everyday Living series. It’s like riding a wave. You wake up, have a burning itch to create. If you don’t act quickly enough, that sheer pull to the blank…
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Using Music to Make Art
When I’m painting, I like listening to classical music typically to make my paintings. Other times I’m keying in on the mood in my painting and listening to music that fits that mood. There’s a lot more to showing visual arts and conveying a message. The choice of colours, those that are saturated are more…
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How to grasp inspiration when it comes
Sometimes I will come up with a fantastic idea and need to work on it immediately to get started. Otherwise, I’ll lose motivation to capture some essence of my idea. Generally this is best in the morning after I sleep. I have something to look forward to in the day when I get up. It’s…
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Anime art and its influences on my work
A story about how anime gave me a springboard to create my own art
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Making value from your art
A motivating factor for me to create is to see something that didn’t exist before. I take pride in being able to provide something of value to someone else. I’ve gotten some questions on how to make matboards and so I decided to film my process this time before my next art show. Was fun…
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Finding inspiration from other artists
I found it easier to get started on a new work listening to a Ray Bradbury book “Zen in the Art of Writing” which was regarding creativity. While I haven’t gotten into it very much, it was nice to listen to someone else in a different medium of art discuss how he worked. Lately I…
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Creativity
I just listened to John Cleese’s book “Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide“. One of the tips was to write about what you know. Which made me wonder: what is it that I know really well? And how that might relate to Art? When I have found myself in a rotten mood, I find that…
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The Myth about Suffering Artists
There is a myth about how artists make their best work when they are dysfunctional or suffering. It’s a vicious and dangerous concept to imagine artists are those that stay up late at night, or are suffering, and from there they produce their best work. Indeed, there is good work that comes from a transformation…
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How to rest
I listened from the book The Sleep Solution by Chris Winter this idea about how rest is also good for you even if you can’t sleep. That helped me reduce my worries about what exactly to do when you wake up in the middle of the night. Soon after that, I actually fell asleep. So…
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Making connections
I’ve been listening to Mindwandering by Moshe Bar and the role of the default mode network. The idea is that your mind makes associations with similar ideas. However the difficulty is that we create ideas based on past experiences and some associations may be unknown to us consciously. I tend to listen to multiple books…
