Photo by Arno Senoner – Unsplash I the other day I wrote a short article titled Discipline as A support System for Art and Creativity. A full reading can be found when you click on the link. In the article I highlighted that Art needs discipline...
Photo by Olav Affrens Rofne – Unsplash In Read and Write Jean Paul Satre’s biography he sites that he is like a knight in shining armor for his audience. He says he saves them by writing. If he does not write he feels pain and the more he...
Photo by Nosiuol – Unsplash Most people have lodged in the mind the adage that ‘you take calculated risks’. How can true risk be calculated? This presupposes that there needs to be a certain if not sufficient information that makes you take a risk....
Photo by Hans Jurgen Weinhardt – Unsplash Langston is a Designer amongst other things. He has set out fir freelance work for the last three years. He likes his work but with liking it, it has borne some sense of business frustration. Langston finds...
Photo by Sebastian Svenson – Unsplash I had just finished teaching a fifteen-week class that centered largely on artistic process. Every Monday morning we gathered to learn or unlearn something. From fashion designers, to writers, models and animators,...
Photo by Sebastian Pichler – Unsplash I have just published a book and the excitement of having it distributed is great. This has been a long awaited process finally bearing fruit and lending itself to public consumption. Good reviews have trickled in...
Photo by Noah Naf – Unsplash Lets play a little game. Let me mix a bunch of people then I will allow you to do some guesswork. Picasso, Van Gogh, Pollock, Dada they are all guess? Artists. But apart from being artists each one has a unique expression of...
Photo by Dan Christian Padurel – Unsplash Dr. Carol Dweck is a Mindset expert. In she wrote the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (2006). The big takeaway in her groundbreaking work is the difference between a Growth Mindset and a...
Art is thinking and production. Art is theory and practice. Sometimes there are seasons of production of art, where we get stuck to produce or even to conceptualize art. I have found myself starring into the blank page hoping that something will be triggered...
The Ideas of art can drop in your heart or mind from a place of spontaneity or from an unallocated inspiration center. In order to develop work or works of art, in order for you to pursue a career or a repertoire you must do that by following a plan....
When I was young I used to wait for holidays so that I could at least get some pocket money from gigs at a Papermaking factory. Most of the time we were deployed as casual laborers to do menial support roles in various departments. The experience was a...
Ideas are in the dimension of Faith. Calling gives direction to Ideas, Gifts give Grace to Ideas and Skills give Execution and Expression to Ideas. This triad is unbroken and seamless. Every body gets ideas, good or bad. Ideas are symbolized as the brainy...
