Break It Up
One thing that really helped me work big was breaking a large piece into 2 smaller panels. How do you work larger?
The Path to Success: Stage Two.
Last week I wrote about the 5 stages in the creative’s path to success. From my experience I tend to see 5 recognizable stages: Stage 1 AWAKENING Stage 2 DISCOVERY Stage 3 INTEGRATION Stage 4 RHYTHM Stage 5 MASTERY Last week I described the very first stage. It is...
Work Without A Plan
Sometimes the best moments come when you just put down paint on the panel.
The Path to Success: Stage One.
One of the challenges of being on a path of creating art is that, it is often you don’t know where you are. It can be hard to determine if you are getting anywhere, especially if you have never been there before. What does a path to success in art making look like? Of...
Discerning Style
What do you prefer?
When you know
The tricky part in life is making the right decisions. Everyone struggles with this. Lately I feel like I have been not doing so well at making decisions. It is hard to know because what might, at first, feel like a mistake, maybe down the road, will feel right. I...
How to bring back the joy in your art.
It seems like wherever we are in our art making, we always want to be someplace better. Often, our art or our ability to make our art feels inadequate. And it doesn’t feel so good. The real problem, however, is that this discontent sometimes never goes away. If we are...
Your Style, Inspired
A key part of finding your style is getting inspired by the work of other artists.
The many ways your dream can come true.
The fantastic thing about making art is that there are no rules. There is no one-way, there isn’t even a hundred ways. There are infinite ways. And this is what is so expansive about the whole enterprise of art making. It has to be malleable. It has to be different...
When The Work Is Done
Someone asked me yesterday what I do with my old work, so I decided to make a little video about it. Enjoy!
