When an artist accepts a commission or works as a commercial artist, everything shifts into high gear – BIG TIME! For over 20 years, I have designed and built props, sets and miniatures for movies and print commercials. As my super-talented friend and assistant’ Aaron Dytyniak, would say, “Once you utter these words to the client, […]
I recently posted a meme that read “my teacher thought I was smarter than I was, so I was.” I am not very competitive, by nature. Growing up, I was the tallest kid in the entire grade school, and really never had to prove myself on the playground. In sports, I was always pretty good […]
PASTELS I love pastels as a medium. Pastels produce rich, saturated, and often painterly results – so buttery that you risk getting color on the tip of your nose as you peer in close and wonder, “What medium is this?” Pastels can also produce dry, sketchy, monochrome drawings, such as sepia tone DaVinci style, most […]
SERENDIPITY … an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. Artists can’t help but listen to that beckoning within; often wooing us away from family, friends and business simply to sit at an art table or computer screen, stand at an easel, or wrestle with some three dimensional medium. Like the lyrics in the song […]
The word “inspire” is, for me, best defined as “to breathe life into”. You can certainly tell in all of the arts and some of the crafts if inspiration is lacking. Singers, Musicians, Actors, Speakers, Artists, Authors and even Teachers … When they are just going thru the motions and lacking inspiration it is obvious […]