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Clay Play

Kristine Poole

Play and creativity go together hand-in-hand like, well, me and Colin. However, amidst deadline crunches, working with clients, creative problem solving challenges, material disasters and, dare we admit, at times over-the-top, self-imposed pressures to continually bring more to the party, sometimes getting through a piece can feel more like a slog than the expressive rapture that beckoned us into the creative arts in the first place. As our schedules become more and more intense, it's…

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The Idea Battle

Gregory Manchess

March 19, 2025 - Everyone has ideas. Most of us are fairly average in how we use our minds to generate them. While we think up ideas like anyone else, as artists we have the added ability to show it. The normal, run-of-the-mill human being can ‘see’ an idea work in their minds, like we do, but they’ve not been trained to make it actually work on paper, or on a screen. It floats in their head while they attempt to express it in words. If they can’t draw it in order to show it, they come to us. An idea that works so beautifully in the mind doesn’t necessarily work on paper. This is the classic art director/artist team, working together to create the same idea. Great things have come from this matchup. But if one is not…

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