I get around, round, round, rounder
We've moved again!
In our life long quest for Economic Utopia we have closed our gallery in Eumundi. Unfortunately it did not work out for us. It is a beautiful town and the people are delightful but it wasn't for us.
Also there were some complications with house selling and buying (I can hear lots of you saying – I know exactly what you mean!) So we are back on the Gold Coast and my studio is now my gallery. Phone Lina 0404074126 if you would like to come around to buy some art.
We get around. We have had many house moves and many changes in our life. Maybe that gives me the creative outlook that I have. I am not afraid of change and adapt to the new situation very quickly. In the long run it doesn't really matter because we all end up in the same situation – dead! That's the good news!
What matters is how you fill in the gap between here and dead!
Adopt creative ways to solve your problems.Unleash your creative heart and step out. Take the risk and do it! Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win.
However, if you sit in front of the TV and dream, you will slowly sink into half-life where your senses are dulled and your mind becomes rigid. Oh what fun!
Your body is the same. if you get out there and be active, sometimes you will fly and sometimes you will fall, but if you don't do anything you will slip into the dullness and heaviness of a prison of your own making.
Become creative before you become dead, one way or another!
This blog is just too much fun, I'll quit now and go settle down in front of the TV and dream of what I could be doing.
Oh no… an ad!
This week I wrote a book, well a training manual actually. It was as a result of learning to use wordpress.com. This site is a free website hosting service. It is great with enough freedom to express your individuality online. Creativity is free! take advantage of this situation.
However… it is not a simple matter for anyone who is not technical, patient and good-looking. ( I am not sure about that last requirement). So after a lot of experience from studying the system and putting sites online. I decided to write a manual about it.
That was this weeks creative project. I really believe in this product… after all it is genuinely free. All you need is an email address and an internet connection and you can be online.
Get ready here comes the ad… My manual is like a road map to make your first website very easy to publish. All you have to do is follow the instructions and before you know it, you're online.Then you can have as many sites and as many pages as your secret fantasies yearn for. All for no money and a little effort – not a bad deal!
I look at it this way. If I told you that there is a town over there through the jungle that has free beer. Many people would want to buy my map to get there. That's what I've done with my manual. There is a place on the internet where it is all free. Buy my map and I'll show you how to get some.
It's simple, I did the brain work, you do the creative work. Now put yourself out there for the digital world to visit. If you would like more information, and I can't see who wouldn't, go here!!!
1 Week – 100 Portraits – Done
At last! It was a very demanding and tiring task but it is complete now. I have achieved what I wanted, the ability to do beautiful pastel portraits.
The change in style and quality is obvious as I progressed. For the first 50 or so I was mainly interested in finding a style and method. After I became comfortable with that I refined the accuracy of the work.
I only drew 1 portrait live, my wife felt sorry for me and posed. Every other portrait was drawn from random photos. You will see a lot of repeats in the subjects. When I got bored with the same photos I would go to the web and grab another random photo or two. I mainly drew children. This was to force me to be sensitive in my work.
you can watch the short movie on my blog site – thecreativeartist and you are welcome to add comments.
Just finished 76
100 portraits takes a long time, a lot of patience and heaps of perseverance.
Through night and day it seems all I do is portraits, breathe, portraits, eat, portraits, sleep, portraits… on and on.
Here is a preview of where I am at the moment. Should be finished on time and have the completed movie showing the progress through the 100, next week.
1 Week – 100 Portraits
This article has been taken from my Creative Artist site.
This week, I decided I would like to be able to do serious portraits in pastel. To achieve this I have set the goal of producing 100 portraits in 1 week. I am photographing each one as it is finished and I will put them all together as a movie at the end. Next week I have already booked myself into a venue to draw the public… quick panic!
I am practicing what I am preaching… practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute. If you want a skill, you have to make a consistent effort to achieve it. As I write this, I am ½ way through the 3rd day and I am already up to portrait 44. There is a rapid improvement in the quality as it progresses.
I have left the bad works in to show that it is not all pretty. This morning when I started at 2am the first 2 I did were shocking, I think I was still asleep. Nevertheless, I continued on to my goal.
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