Month: January 2012

Sometimes you have to throw a good idea under the bus for a better one. You can’t be too in love with your creative ideas because it might not be forever. Also you can’t take it personally. It is not about who had the idea, it is about the idea, Great ideas trump good ideas every day of the week.
Ideas are sometimes not good enough for one thing but they might work for something else.
Everything is like painting a picture.
Ideas are only alive in the creative stage . all things are possible in the creative stage.
When things get concrete you are not able to quick change anymore. You are committed.
And as I said earlier in a blog. it is good to make a choice and go on to the next thing.
But in the inception stage all bets are off and you can go in any direction that is smartest.
I totally changed the name of my store.
Il loved Baboo but thought of something way way better and now I have a clearer concept in mind too.
Driving down to the ocean I was taking with my friend via text about the store name and I thought I made my mind up but she said something that made sense so off we went picking new and improved names.
So I changed lanes while we were changing lanes on the freeway.
Creativity is the most powerful thing we have at our disposal and you better use it often or your creative powers will shrivel up and die. And you don’t want that!

There is a four year old girl that is on you tube who is painting abstract paintings and they are selling in a gallery in New York for 20 thousand dollars each.
I watched the video of her and she did seem to have an eye. Then I got to thinking what would my four year olds do with a canvas on the floor that was bigger than their tiny bodies. What if there were tons of paints sitting right by the canvas. What if I left them in a room for a couple of hours and told them just have fun. Would they be able to produce anything worth looking at.
That is the question because how many four year olds have unlimited access to paint and canvas and freedom to just do it.
I think that is a good question.
Is this little girl genuinely a gifted artist with a sensitive eye even at her young age or could anyone do it.
We will find out because I have to ability to do this with my kids that I teach.
Here is my deeper question. Is it possible to do something knowing nothing.
My contention is maybe so.
Does talent sometimes get in the way of creativity. Maybe so.
I have that experience myself. I cannot draw very well. I never could. But I still felt driven to paint so I do simple paintings that were pretty childlike looking back. But I still like them for their simplicity. Then something happened . I somewhere down the road learned to draw just through repetition . Now I can draw and now I rely on it to do a painting.
I have another question , was it better before I had skill.
There is a documentary about Matisse that showed him creating the chapel that he had built and then did all the art in it for this friend of his that was a nun.
It was the last thing he did on this earth.
He did some of the most simple abstract work of his life for the chapel. To me it is charming and wonderful work but some people disagree.
He put is lifetime of skill aside and went for pure
emotion. It was important to him to get it right.
So without thinking about someone having to buy the work this is what he did.
His stations of the Cross look like a four year old
did them.
Is an artist born that way. Are we all capable of being artists if we choose?? That is the question.