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Step back, sync your rhythm, and let the tool become an extension of you. That’s where style, colour, and magic begin. People often say the left and right sides of the brain work independently, but what really matters is learning to integrate them. When we find that balance, logic and intuition work side by side.
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At its heart, drawing is simply making marks. Before we think about subject, style, or meaning, a drawing is just marks on a surface. Each mark has its own character, shaped by the artist’s hand, the tool, the pressure, and the intention. In this way, every mark is like a signature: unique, unrepeatable, and showing
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“True creativity starts when you use what you have: your mind, your hands, and your resourcefulness. Even a simple party plate can become a canvas.” I find it fascinating to imagine stepping into someone else’s life and thinking about how I would handle their situation. I do this a lot with artists I admire, thinking
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Walker Percy once said, “The unconscious is that which we know, or have experienced, but for which we do not have a name.” As an artist, I see this every day. So much of what shapes us—our fears, intuitions, longings, and memories—lives in that unnamed space. Images help us reach into that world. They hold
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Author and philosopher Bo Bennett once said, “Success is not what you have but who you are.” This idea applies to many aspects of life, but it rings especially true in art. Unlike other fields where success is measured by wealth, status, recognition, or titles, art is different. The value of art—and the artist—is not
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(After Viktor E. Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”) When the ground trembles, the character stands still. That sentence has stayed with me for years, quietly, like a pulse behind everything I create. I didn’t know why it lingered until I read Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. His book showed me the truth inside
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Every image is an abstraction, even a photograph. No picture ever captures the real thing itself; it only records a version of what once existed. When we take a photograph or paint a scene, we are not freezing reality but interpreting it. We shape it through light, perspective, time, and emotion. This simple truth may
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Every generation shapes art to reflect itself. This isn’t just a choice; it’s something that happens naturally, since art describes the world around us. But what art describes is never neutral. It always carries the feeling of its time, the culture’s mood, and the artist’s own perspective. So, art isn’t just a mirror of its
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Perception is not just a one-way process. When we look at something, especially a work of art, it is not only the image that speaks to us. We bring our own thoughts, feelings, and experiences into what we see. What we notice, how we react, and the meaning we find depend as much on who
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Oscar Wilde once wrote, “All art is quite useless.” At first, this might sound dismissive or even insulting. However, upon closer examination, Wilde’s idea proves to be both profound and liberating. Art isn’t made to serve a direct, practical purpose. It doesn’t feed us, clothe us, or give us shelter. Still, art nourishes us in
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