May 22, 2019 - These ‘short take’ posts will address common factors within an art career. You’ll recognize these concerns as you’ve probably encountered many already. You may be used to hearing them from a well-worn perspective, but you’ll find my approach, based on a long career of discovery, failure, and success, is not standard. As you progress through your career, you’ll find your own solutions to share, for certainly anything produced in the creative field is not usually a mundane, methodical process. In my SmArtSchool classes I discuss at length the effort of laying down paint and how that paint projects ideas and stimulates the audience. How the pigment goes down and the way it appears most would call ‘technique,’ but how is as important as where and why. Detail is a natural desire for most painters and…