35. Manifesting success

Do I Really Need to Explain Myself? There’s an interesting relationship between confidence, perception, and the way we present ourselves. Especially when you’re selling something. You don’t necessarily sell a house by showing up looking insecure or uncertain about what…

32. Don’t Paint Yourself Into a Corner

Is My Art Good? Don’t Paint Yourself Into a Corner. Sometimes I find myself having conversations with myself about what it really means to be an artist. Not necessarily about painting techniques, colors, composition, or even what makes a painting…

31. The Big Picture

The Big Picture Sometimes I think about what it really means to create something. Think about artists like Michelangelo, working high above the ground on scaffolding, spending countless hours doing what must have been extraordinarily demanding physical work. The patience,…

29. Art is Therapy for the Soul. Finding Peace

Now that’s an interesting direction because those two ideas approach art from different perspectives. Art as a Message is about communication. What we express, what we create, and what someone else perceives. Art as Therapy for the Soul is about…

27. Morning ramble continued

All right. So I’m reading all that and I’m liking the combination of my actual thoughts presenting it, and the elaboration of what I’m saying and responding to it, and the meaning of intelligence, and what stood out to me…