Maybe “Buy the best art materials you can afford” isn’t the best advice after all.
Category: Making
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.
How to: find my style
No one sets out to have a favourite food, we find it along the way. The same thing happens with the style of art we gravitate toward, too.
Those thankless nights
If the publishing deals dried up today, I’d still be drawing, painting, and writing, just for me, just like I did before, published and paid, or not.
The starving artist: a culture, not a law
Changing the law needs lawyers. Changing a culture doesn’t need lawyers, we just need everybody to agree, and that’s hard.