We can’t always control what happens to us in life, but we can control the story we tell ourselves about the good and the bad that it brought us.
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Uninspiring Inspiration
Can ‘reading the best to be the best’ be great advice, all the time? Or, can inspiration sometimes be… uninspiring?
Chances are, nobody cares
Whether you’re sharing your work, or hiding it, what lies at the heart of it is your ego and how important you think you are.
Watercolour is inconvenient
Maybe in a world that prioritises convenience, going the opposite way is worth something.
Afraid to waste the good stuff
Would we make more art if we weren’t afraid of ruining the lovely paper, or using up the expensive paint or damaging our nice brushes?
Done is better than perfect
It’s only when something is done that you can get feedback. And it’s only through feedback that we improve.
Truth-seeking
The art I love most reveals something about us or the world that has been there the whole time, but we’ve been too focussed to see it.
Learning through mimicry
It’s surprising what your fingers will do, automatically, when you’ve spent some time copying the writers you admire, word-for-word.
Credentials aren’t that important for most things
An uncertified surgeon is illegal but it’s probably true that no one has ever died by looking at artwork produced by an uncredentialed artist.
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?