THE BOOK LOVER

“It’s when you have found out how to do a certain thing, that its time to stop doing them, because what’s missing is that you are not  including the risk.  The fact is risk is essential to me”    Robert Rauschenberg In the last blog on “Over Thinking”, I mentioned some of the reasons we over think and keep ourselves going around in circles. Not knowing our materials. Using the wrong materials for what we want to say. Not having an idea of what we want to communicate to the vi

“It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to ‘caress’ his canvas too”.                             Pierre Auguste Renoir Spontaneous, fresh, natural, clean, vibrant, those are good qualities to have in your artwork. They are also things that we all struggle with, because we overthink!  We’ve all been there, but we also know that it’s in our best interest to stop. Research has shown that overthinking makes it more difficult to solve problems and so

“Painting is a funny business”.       J.M.W.  Turner As artist we all long for people to validate our work.  We are constantly looking for places to show our work, new opportunities to share what we do.  The past 7 months have been that for me. They been an exciting, rewarding, and profitable.  But as I am approaching the end of all my extra commitments, I realize how over extended I have become. It’s not so much the events which in themselves can be time consuming, but the p

“The artist begins with a vision-a creative operation requiring an effort.  Creativity takes courage.”    Henri Matisse Journey Upward      Collage I received many responses to the blog on “Commitment”. There was one question I would like to address: “I like to do so many things. How do I know which to commit to? Do I have to pick one?”  The short answer is no.  You can just commit to a creative life and keep enjoying what you are doing.  The other part of that answer is; do