How do I make time for art? I don’t, in the same way I don’t make time for brushing my teeth. The time is already there.
Category: Starting
The usefulness of constraints
It’s easy to put limits on ourselves. To see these things as barriers that prevent us from doing what we want to do. My desk is too small. I don’t have enough time. I don’t have a ‘space’. I can’t afford to do art. I can’t draw. But barriers are only barriers if you see… Continue reading The usefulness of constraints
The power of teachers
In year 7, I was asked to write a story for a class assignment. It was a pop-creative-writing task. I ended up writing a derivation of the Jonah and the Whale story from the bible. It was a Catholic school, the class before this one was Religion, so it was the first thing that came… Continue reading The power of teachers
Disposable income, disposable time
Maybe time works like income. You need to spend a certain amount of it on ‘essentials’, but then there’s a ‘budget’ for how we choose to spend the rest?
Why is doing nothing so hard?
Doing ‘nothing’ is difficult. Try it for a minute, or two, or thirty and you’ll see. So if we have to do something, what’s the best sort of something.
Safe bets
How do you choose a wine if you’re not into wine? Standing in front of a shelf of over 1200 wine bottles, all of varying prices, designs, flavour profiles or sizes, the choice is overwhelming. If you know nothing about wine, awards help. If something is awarded, and something isn’t, perhaps the awarded one is… Continue reading Safe bets
Someone else is better than you
What if we forgot about our weaknesses and focussed on our strengths? What if we teamed up with people who had strengths that complemented our weaknesses?
It’ll be slower than you think
Success isn’t slow, we just imagine it to be fast.
A new table
Changing me is hard. It’s far easier to change my environment, and then watch it change me in return.
Draw everyday. Or don’t.
Some advice is good, and some is bad. What’s most important about any advice, is that it’s just advice. What works for some, doesn’t work for others.