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The Artist's Perspective - Challeng

A couple of months ago, I offered what I hoped to be a few simple things to inspire and stimulate you in the way of a fun little creative challenge. My plan was to back it up the next month with part 2, ...

The Artist's Perspective - Negative Spac

The space of any blank canvas is an interesting one to fill. Be it large or small, to see your subject matter in life and then visualize it on your canvas as a completed work of art, can be challenging. ...

The Artist's Perspective - Motivatio

... Over the next 24-hours, I would like you to go a different route, think outside of the box, put your best creative game face on and do something out of YOUR ordinary. I want you to largely or even lightly ...

The Artist's Perspective - Memor

There I was, watching an old Youtube video of Barbra Streisand so passionately singing Andrew Loyd Webber’s show tune “Memory," from the musical Cats. In this HD version from 1981, Streisand is singing ...

The Artist's Perspective - Happines

... and Trump did this-or-that, all aside, I want you to focus on being healthy and happy, and that is what I’m going to do as well. I’ve strived for us all, artists, art lovers and supporters of the arts, ...

The Artist's Perspective - Reality Chec

Though nursing a cold, on Sunday, October 7th, I went to see “Abira and The Mountain” at the Hill School Theater. Billed as A Place To Be’s newest family production focusing on acceptance, empathy and ...

The Artist's Perspective - Walking Into Ar

... of Oak Spring Garden Foundation. The former home of Paul and Bunny Mellon, Oak Spring Farm, which was largely split up after Bunny Mellon’s 103.5 years on this earth came to an end, lives on. If I’m ...

The Artist's Perspective - A Sad Loss of Creativit

On June 8th, celebrity chef, writer and television personality, Anthony Bourdain took his own life just a couple of weeks before what would have been his 62 birthday. While the creative embers of this ...

The Artist's Perspective - Your Contact Inf

... sorts of places trying to gain any exposure you can. You obviously do so because you are trying your best to bridge the gap between your art and your potential clients. There’s little question you ...

The Artist's Perspective - Improvemen

Improvement. This one word is so true of creative longevity. Honestly, it may be the key to longevity period. You know you pretty well. Now imagine a better you. Not a new you, but an improved you. ...

The Artist's Perspective - Creative Type

Creative types sometimes stumble around in the dark looking for themselves. Their path less defined than most. Early man looked only for the basic needs of survival. Food, shelter, water, not being eaten ...

The Artist's Perspective - Professional Artis

There’s a distinct change that happens in an artist after they have taken money in exchange for their art. What was an exploration into self expression, becomes in a sense, business. While many artists ...

The Artist's Perspective - Photograph

Influenced by my Aunt Dottie being a professional photographer for the government, and my brother’s early interest in being a shutterbug as a hobby, for me, after owning a few Kodak Instamatics and Polaroids, ...

The Artist's Perspective - Art Caree

In about six months I will have been selling my paintings for thirty years. Most days I only think about the present and future of things, but other days I ponder the past and what makes up a long career. ...

The Artist's Perspective - Creative Couple

Where there’s art, there’s love! It is after all, the ultimate law of attraction. That infatuation with creativity rubbing off and one thing leads to another, you have a creative couple. Self expressive ...

The Artist's Perspective - Retiremen

With the closing of our gallery five months ago last December, social functions have had me sometimes confronted with these words, “How are you enjoying retirement?” The first time, it caught me completely ...

The Artist's Perspective - Creative Partner

Some forms of creativity can be a very solitary adventure. Often this can find the artist alone in his or her thoughts of how to express an idea, then executing it, contemplating the results and even then ...

The Artist's Perspective - Creativit

Creativity. That one word, so intertwined in every artist’s life. The idea that an idea to make something original with your own two hands gets floating around in your head, should never be taken for granted. ...

The Artist's Perspective: Avoiding Creative Road Block

There you are, all ready to go and no idea where to go. Not a good place for an artist to be. You have all of the fixings for a creative masterpiece, but none of the creative concepts breaking through. ...

The Artist's Perspective - Passio

I’m writing The Artist’s Perspective on Valentine’s Day. The day when love is in the air, which considering the somewhat lack of it these days, it’s refreshing to see signs of the mighty heartbeat of passion. ...

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