Motivation
The other day a friend asked me to talk about “…the creative practice, staying...
Chris Beatrice
What is Creativity?
For me, to my conscious mind, creativity feels like facilitating the passage from the inner world...
Color, The Simplest Way
A lot of artists struggle with color. If you start by keeping it simple you will gain confidence...
You Can’t Draw Because You’re Doing It Wrong
If you want to learn how to draw, read this. All of it. Or you can go be entertained by some...
Dark Vision
“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.” -Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
What exactly is meant by this word, “shadow”? An area of darkness, of less light, perhaps? The very concept of shadow is an artificial convention, which can lead to limiting mischaracterizations of the underlying reality. For instance:
Everything in shadow is not darker than everything in…
Why We Paint: A Personal Process
I started my official “commercial art” training at the age of 13. I’m talking ink wash black and...
Whatever It Takes
Our first dog was a rescued Australian Cattle Dog or “Heeler”. These little toughies were bred from crossing wild dingoes with god knows what. When my wife handed our “Syd” his first juicy prime rib bone, he promptly flashed his gigantic teeth and said, in dog language, “Give me that s**t then get the f**k away or I will destroy you!”
So… my wife called a professional trainer, and said, “We want to train him…
Throw Your Work Away!
We have a tendency to keep things in our pictures because we’re proud of them, we worked hard on...
Toned Paper and Painting
When I was in art school we were given an assignment to draw on sheets of brown paper using only white chalk and charcoal. I’m talking like cheap-ass grocery bags, burned sticks of wood, and chunks of the Dover coast. I had no idea what the point was. Now I do.
This was back before plastic grocery bags were invented… which were later made illegal, so we’d switch to reusable (great!), which then became illegal…
Art… ificial Selection
What do you feel is the greatest thing about Charles Darwin?
A. He came up with the theory that species evolve over time.
B. He had a mighty hipster beard.
C. He insisted that humans are all one species.
D. He named his ship after the author of The Last Unicorn.
E. He realized that the illusion of design could emerge from random factors.
I say C. After that, B, I guess (the beard is…
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