Just the other day, I heard someone suggest a new sketchbook or some other art supplies as a solution to creative doldrums. The idea has its merits (who doesn’t love a shiny new sketchbook?), but while it might be a useful cure for a temporary block, a real loss of creative mojo requires something...
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Abstract Art – The Process
Art doesn’t happen in a vacuum. For some artists the impetus to create might be an image, or a scene; the stimulus is essentially visual. For others, it is a word, an idea, perhaps a concept, or an event. Creating a portrait is, on...
Artists – Hundertwasser
he’s one of those artists that you just connect with, for me it’s a case of looking at his work and thinking, I’d have done that. I don’t mean that in an egotistical way but that he seems to be coming from the same...
Creativity Versus Clutter
Life is messy. If your idea of life is where everything is tidy and you are in control, with everything going smoothly… you’re going to die waiting for life to happen. You can clean and tidy all you like, but life keeps going on....
Hands Off My Stuff
Thoreau’s simple life existed only thanks to the constant support of townspeople, the Glass House was just some glass rooms supported by outhouses and cottages, and Zen monks don’t have children, careers or hobbies. So how did these ideals – unattainable and artificial –...
Life is largely not about the big decisions. You don’t often get to leap in front of a bus to save someone, or choose to spill the beans on a terrorist plot. It’s the small, daily, unimportant decisions – the extra pushups, the ten...
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In a nutshell: writer, artist, Linux geek and bad Cellist. Current obsessions include contemporary culture and philosophy, food and nutrition.
