Blue Skies
Who can resist a big, blue sky? Flipping through some photos from my trip to Japan and Taiwan, I started feeling nostalgic. Michael's was having a big sale on canvases so, I figured this was as good a time as any to start a new series. This is one of the paintings I started today, which will be a landscape of Farm Tomita in Hokkaido. This is layer one. Then I built in the sky and the mountains in the horizon. I then put in the the basic shapes of the foreground and called it
Smartest or Most Dedicated?
Sort of unrelated to art, but not really, would you rather hire the smartest person or the most dedicated? When I ask my students this question, they usually choose smartest. Freddy Corbin, the tattoo artist I saw speak at Creative Mornings last week, said that he chose most dedicated. In other words, he decided to choose an apprentice that had good work ethics over the uber, talented artist. I wished I had figure this out when I was younger. I wish I had understood, like I d