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A simple question to shift your art—and your life
Hola Everyone, welcome back to the Art2Life vlog! I’m still here in Mexico, and I’ve got something really special to share with you today. It’s a question I ask myself…
IMPROVING OUR ART
How do we improve our art? I definitely subscribe to the 10,000 hours of hard work idea. This rule originally proposed in Malcolm Gladwell’s NY Times bestselling book “Outliers, The Story of Success” suggests that only by practicing 10,000 hours at a specific task you are able to become successful…
WAITING FOR ANSWERS
Today I was working on a large painting. It was mostly white and had tiny black square shapes all over it. It reminded me of a snowy landscape. I was feeling kind of lost, almost as if I was wandering in this enormous white field with black stumps where trees…
THE VACATION IN ART
I love the quote by the philosopher, poet David Whyte…”Visitation, absence, visitation, absence this is how we learn” This totally rings true for me. When I come back to work on a painting the following day I have about 45 minutes of objectivity. Things seem more clear and fresh. Then I tend…
