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Coffee Facts

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Creativity Calls

You know those times where you feel almost invincible?  It hits that point in the evening-usually right before you want to go to bed.  You feel like you can just accomplish everything on your list.  The time crunch pressure but also relief you feel.  The day has ended, but you are living.  You're using your time wisely.  Finding new inspiration.  Feeling the colors or words or thoughts just run smoothly through your brain.  All worries leave your body and you are able to relax.  To focus.  To breathe.   This is the time.  And then.... you wake up in the morning.   Make the night worth it. 

Pascal Campion Words of Wisdom

"You know, one of the coolest thing about drawing , to me, is not just the fact that you can create new worlds, exciting adventures, and fun characters... it's also when you can recreate a memory. This scene never happened, this dialog, as such, never did, but it's all taken from bits and pieces of my childhood and this image , in a way, is one of the best captures of my relationship with my dad. I see so many artists, especially younger ones, always trying to imitate other artists, always trying to figure out how to draw like them, but so few actually try to create life. People will forget the drawing, but they won't forget the emotion in it if they can feel it. Try this guys.. pick a strong moment of your life, whatever that moment is.. it could be a break up or your first kiss, it could be something that happened with your big brother or your grandpa, the first time you traveled to another country..something that has impacted you, and create  a series of images a...

James

http://www.clairebphotography.com/?p=2959 I'm posting this here too because I just can't get enough! Just providing more inspiration for figure drawings tonight!

Being an Artist

So many words and quotes are flooding through my brain, and I hope to get them all out.  It is not easy to be creative, even when we are creative "professionals." The next chapter in the book, "The Artist's Way," was discovering a sense of adventure.   Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.  Rather than enjoy the process, we become focused on the result.  An adventure does not need to be large or intense to be adventurous and nutritious for our artist. When we are fixated on getting better, we miss what it is we already are.  To be an artist you must learn to let yourself be.  Stop getting better.  Start appreciating what you are.  Do something that delights you for no apparent reason.  This is not to say you have to "give up" high art.  Instead, I am saying to try "Hi, Art!"  As artists, we have a form of inner power the advisers can never extinguish or ultimately thwart.  And this is always the key.   -Juli...

Huelight

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Light artwork.  It has been challenging, but definitely a lot of fun. 

These Colors

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