Are acrylics or digital any less ‘pure’ than oils? Those in the art world favour tradition over new technology, but everything was new technology once.
Category: Making
Colour palette reference: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
She-Ra’s poppy, but limited colour palette show that you can still go bright without going gaudy.
Lucky breaks are everywhere
Our intuition tells us that good luck is harder to find than bad luck, but what if luck was just about the way you looked at something?
How much should I spend on a pencil, paper, and eraser?
Maybe “Buy the best art materials you can afford” isn’t the best advice after all.
Quiet, Please
An artist’s challenge is to create their own quiet amidst all the noise because no umpire will do it for us.
Ideas are easy, progress is hard
Ideas are everywhere, but artists are not. Is it really just fear of failure that prevents people from converting their ideas into art?
Two ways to capture the world
If there are two ways to capture the world, I’ll choose the second way.
To paint like a child
Perhaps the pursuit of art is about unlearning what we know and what we’re afraid of.
Chasing our tails
Perhaps goals are the problem. Perhaps what we really need to find happiness is a focus on exactly the opposite of goals – play.
Defined by ‘No’
For two-letters, No is a powerful word.