Over the past month, I feel like I’ve learned a whole lot about my own creativity. Probably because for the first time, I’ve been paying attention to how I’m creative. Lesson #1 If I only do art that I’m supposed to be doing and don’t experiment or play at all, I’m going to be one [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about success lately, and it seems to be popping up everywhere – blogs I read, newsletters I get, to conversation topics on Twitter. Everywhere I look, something is reminding me that I’m aiming for success and asking me what my version of success is. Except I don’t have one. I [...]
When I first started writing this post, I wanted it to be all edgy and cool and smart. I wanted it to be so awesome, everyone would just adore it. However, that post didn’t want to be written. So I’m writing this one instead. Last week, my wonderful friends Kyeli and Pace, of FreakRevolution.com, sent [...]
So I was out, lurking the interwebs as I’m wont to do, when I stumbled across a quote from some big shot in the art world. No, I don’t remember who said it, or exactly where I found it, but it’s been stuck in my mind ever since. The gist of this quote was the [...]
The more I paint and the more I run my own art business and observe others as they run their own creative businesses, I am more and more convinced that talent has nothing to do with success. Yep, that’s right – talent has nothing to do with success. Or at the least, very little to [...]
You know what really gets on my nerves? (And it’s been annoying me more than ever lately.) The idea that somehow, playing small is noble. That living a life of quiet misery is somehow the truer, better, more humble path. I would like to call bullshit, thankyouverymuch. This has been said a million times before… [...]
Yesterday, I finally made the time to sit down and really paint, for the first time since I moved to PEI. Oh my god, it went so well. I still can’t get over it. I played with the ink, and did some really interesting looking sketches of a couple nudes, and then I got stuck [...]
Disclaimer: This is one of those posts that is more vulnerable than others. I would like to politely ask if, in the comments, you refrain from sharing your own personal judgments, psychoanalysis, or what you think I should be doing instead of feeling like this. I’m sure I’ll figure it all out in my own [...]
For the past few days I’ve had this urge to leave the acrylics alone and start working in a simpler format. I’m finding that my acrylics are getting dull and stodgy and they’ve lost some of their original expressiveness. It’s time to change things up a bit. For ages I’ve had this yearning to try [...]
Hello writer’s block. Again. You know, one of these days, I’ll be able to write a post without spending the first five minutes staring at the screen going, Duhhhh. I’ll let you know when that happens. We’ll all drink champagne together. My treat. I’m not entirely sure what this post is going to be about. [...]
