Reflections on Creativity and Life

Monthly Archives: September 2011

Elephant

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This morning I got this idea and I started blogging about it and then got sidetracked and lost what I wrote. so I am thankful for the elephant. I was writing about how sometimes you get this great idea and

The River

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If you live your life worrying about what will happen next to you and how everything in the world will affect YOU and what is the best plan for YOU. You will have a rotten life. Guaranteed. But if you

Crazy Thinking

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Artists sometimes are perceived as illogical thinkers. That is true. I have never met one yet that was one foot in front of another. It is hard to be left brainers when you are mostly right brain. My mom told

The demolition of Time

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There are hundreds of time wasters. But the big three are watching something that is not you. Movies Television and the computer. I am going to try and limit myself to two hours a day. Mostly it is on the

The power of Order

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Artists are not orderly by nature. If you are you are lucky. We get into the zone and nothing seems as important as getting the next thing done so we toss aside everything that is in our way. I have

copy

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A client sometimes wants a bigger version of a painting I already did. This is fun to do as I don’t have to think up the original idea so that is easy but the hard part comes when I have

What you get

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Sometimes the portrait I am doing is not exactly a mirror image of the person. That is not what I do. I do an impression of what I see. That is what you are paying for. If you want exactly