I have learned recently that not everyone finds the same things embarrassing. Tiktok has many examples of this. There are videos of people talking to their camera while sitting on the toilet. There are videos of people tripping and falling…
Category: Art Every Day 2022
Are you focusing on your faults?
You don’t need to be good at everything. You don’t need to focus on doing those things that you aren’t inclined to do or don’t enjoy or aren’t good at. Figure out what you are good at, what you enjoy…
Being Creative is a Skill
Being creative isn’t some magical gift given from the heavens. Creativity is mostly practice over time and gaining skills through that practice. Artists aren’t born being able to paint anything they want. They spend hours and hours painting. They have pieces that they…
Always Say Yes to Yourself
If you are a creative person who wants to put their art out into the world, always say yes to yourself. Your work deserves to be seen by people. You never know what good might come from putting your work out into…
Has the World Become Bland?
I recently came a cross an article about how the world has become less colorful than it was 100 or even 50 years ago. You can read the original article here. There is a graph of bars of colors that get…
What Am I Supposed To Post About?
I have discovered something about social media. Writing about what you hate does a few things: It gives that thing power by drawing attention to it. Attention is power and will always augment the thing that the attention is being drawn…
Multi-Passionate and Unapologetic
“Keep all your passions in your life.” ― Austin Kleon I find myself in my creative life “going off in all directions” a bit and being interested in about 30 different things at one time. In the present, I am…
Who Cares If Your Stuff Sucks?
I have wanted to start a blog since I was 18. That was 14 years ago. At the time when I originally was looking into beginning a blog at 18 I was told that blogging for income was “sort of…
Being a Drug Free Artist
Living in this world and this culture as a drug-free individual (especially as an artist/creative) is very interesting. I don’t go to parties where I think people will be doing drugs or drinking too much alcohol. I don’t mind a…
Art Every Day Challenge for 2022
I have been making art every day in 2022. Some has been physical art, and some has been digital. Some days I write, and some days I dislike my final product. But every day I have made some art. And every day…