Maybe “Buy the best art materials you can afford” isn’t the best advice after all.
Tag: starting
To paint like a child
Perhaps the pursuit of art is about unlearning what we know and what we’re afraid of.
You could instead of you should
Assuming that what works for us will work for others doesn’t make sense. Perhaps instead of advice, what we need is perspective.
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.
No one taught us what do with boredom
The problem with being bored isn’t about being unable to think about what to do, it’s about deciding which, of all things, we should do, right now.
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.
Bit by bit
Becoming an artist is possible, drawing-by-drawing, day-by-day, bit-by-bit. Just because you’ve never done it before, doesn’t mean you can’t.
One thing for yourself
How do you get the energy to do anything creative after a long, boring, soul-destroying day at work?