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What Happens After You Unstick Your Art?

Hey Everyone, welcome back… Remember last week when I showed you a hack I use when I’m stuck in my painting Today, I’m going to show you what happened next…

THE ORANGE TREE

I had dinner with my friend, artist and designer Tom Stanley the other night. We both attended Art Center College of Design together umpteen years ago. The conversation meandered around to our artistic paths, our careers and what was hard in the beginning that was not now. Tom said that…

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A NEW BEGINNING

I absolutely love the opportunity to start over, reinvent and begin fresh again. What makes a new beginning anyway? The ending of an arbitrary weird 12-month calendar? The blow out festivities of the Holidays? The coming of the cold and rain? I am not entirely sure but what does seem…

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YOU, ME AND THE GIFT CARD

Pablo Picasso, Tete de Taureau (Bull’s Head), Bicycle saddle and handlebars. 1942, Musée National Picasso, Paris This year it was decided that gift cards of a pre determined dollar amount would be exchanged between family members for Christmas. I actually had never purchased gift cards before. At first blush this dramatically simplifies Xmas gift purchasing, reducing hours…

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