Tag: painting
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Day 363 of 1000: Making Magic
Today is a week for making magic, ordinary kinds of magic, magic in hosting a graduation, magic in getting immersed in a great novel, magic in creating a trading plan for all seasons and markets.
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Day 342 of 1000: What I don’t Want to Do
Finding your own path often involves doing things that feel weird, and that feel wrong too. Time to bust out of the shackles of what society tells you to do.
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Day 262 of 1000: Setting Up an Art Storefront
Making plans for refreshing my Saatchi Art storefront with new Motion Memory paintings. Many details to learn about.
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Day 250 of 1000: One-Quarter Done | Art Monsterhood Achieved
Having completed 25% of my 1000-day reinvention blogging project, I reflect on what I have achieved.
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Day 245 of 1000: Planning for Valentine’s Day Week
Plans for the week including Valentine’s Day dinner, writing about investing, working on Mechanism paintings, dancing through life.
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Day 244 of 1000: Working Through a Painting Block
Working through a painting block by changing subjects and using a color I rarely use, raw umber.
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Day 243 of 1000: Weight Loss Meds and the Re-architecture of Desire
On my experience with Wellbutrin for overeating and overdrinking. How it’s changing the landscape of my desire.
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Day 231 of 1000: Art and Money
This week, I’ll be working on my kline-inspired Motion Memory paintings as well as the new portfolio dashboard I’m putting together in Google Sheets.
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Day 221 of 1000: Robert Ryman on Painting
American abstract painter Robert Ryman on how process is fundamental to his paintings, but is not the subject of his paintings.
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Day 217 of 1000: Back to the creative life
Getting back to my writing and painting after spending most of last week on a very long road trip.
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Day 195 of 1000: Human imperfection in art and writing
Human art and writing represents one human consciousness communicating with others. Often imperfect, it lacks the smoothness that AI-generated work does.
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DAy 70 of 1000: The emergence of art
Art emerges from ordinary people, working with whatever skill and voice they have developed, despite or perhaps because of their flaws and weaknesses.
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Day 59 of 1000: ordinary magic
Inspired by the Queen of Pentacles to create some ordinary magic in my home.
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Day 43 of 1000: Bringing a painting to completion, twice
While it’s true that continuing to work on a painting beyond when it strikes you will initially make it worse, you can keep going and make it better with enough iteration
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Day 39 of 1000: Challenges in my life and in my art
Working to develop my artist’s statement, I share my responses to two more prompts from Alyson Stanfield’s prompts to shape your art marketing message.
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Day 36 of 1000: Finding creative inspiration in repetition
Finding creative inspiration by starting a series of paintings based on a repetitive set of steps, and a concept for what the paintings represent.