Monthly Archives: February 2007

Finding Value in Silence (for your creative self)

I am increasingly becoming aware that we live in a culture that is fixated on noise. I am not sure exactly why this is. Perhaps it means that people always have something going on, that they don’t really want to look at who they really are as much as being defined by the [...]

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Canvas Cashed Out

BBC reports that a canvas covered in 100,000 notes of 1000 kroner (about $16,300 USD) was stolen from an Oslo Art Gallery.
Each banknote was individually glued to the 6′5″ x 13′ canvas frame.
The thieves cut these individually off the canvas leaving only the frame behind.
While on one hand I am not sure whether to [...]

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Working with Shades of Gray: Painting Fish 1

I was feeling slightly ambitious today (common Monday trait for me) and decided to start this painting this morning. I found the above image on www.sxc.hu
My camera seems to be acting up and is giving everything a pinkish hue so here is the best I could do in terms of showing you the current [...]

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Starting a Artist Group

I’ve been searching around online for some really good Artists Groups, and much to my dismay, I haven’t found any decent ones. Now maybe it’s because I am looking in all the wrong places. I am not sure. But I have decided to create a Google group for artists to share ideas, [...]

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How to Find your Creative Process

As I sit down to write this little post on finding your creative process, I realize how I have been slightly dreading to write this post. Not because it’s bad or that it’s a difficult process, but because I so often have trouble finding my own process myself. Some days it is so [...]

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