Chapter 10 of potential hindrances to our creative development cont… **00X: If we sell work, we are good and successful artists.** As always, I am merely exposing a few of the tributaries that may or may not be clogged with resistance to our personal creative evolution. Perhaps the most obvious limitation to this presupposition is in thinking… Continue reading
Chapter 10 of potential hindrances to our creative development cont… **00X: If we sell work, we are good and successful artists.** As we continue to splish-splash in the mucky territory of this presupposition, I would like to go just a little further into the conscious intention of building a lucrative career out of our creative expression and… Continue reading
Chapter 10 of potential hindrances to our creative development continued… Let’s say I decide that creating in a state of deprivation (as discussed in the last article) is not my path and I really want to go for the primo abundant life as an artist— except now I find myself up against the doubt and confusion around selling… Continue reading
Chapter 10 of potential hindrances to our creative development continued… For now, I’ll be treading in the shadowy waters of this presupposition so that we can get a good look at all sorts of damming resistance. This will probably make things seem really futile for a bit but I’ll get to the flip side eventually, so don’t… Continue reading
Chapter 10 of potential hindrances to our creative development : **00X: If we sell work, we are good and successful artists.** In the average social setting, have you ever noticed how awkward or tense it can get when you’re asked about your creative endeavours? Like maybe you spilled the beans that you’ve signed up for a drawing… Continue reading
Chapter 9 of potential hindrances to our creative development: **00IX: An ‘art critique’ is a necessarily painful affair.** By now I’m hoping it’s a bit more apparent that it’s up to us whether we suffer in an art critique or from criticism in general. If this is still murky, perhaps we need to ask ourselves why we… Continue reading
Chapter 9 of potential hindrances to our creative development continued… Before wrapping up this chapter, I’d like to bundle some loose threads concerning resistance and non-resistance around the encouragement/discouragement and opinions of others. We all know there can be times when someone’s words are a blessing or a boost and when they can be disheartening or crushing,… Continue reading
Chapter 9 of potential hindrances to our creative development continued… **00IX: An ‘art critique’ is a necessarily painful affair.** At this time, it would make sense to ask: If we are not receiving an assigned value (or rating/grade) and no one is telling us how we should make our work, what are we getting out of an… Continue reading
Chapter 9 of potential hindrances to our creative development continued… …I was just beginning to describe how I would bring my multidimensional self and ways of knowing to a descriptive-style art critique so that I am relating from my heart, mind and body. For the academic types out there, I might characterize these as realms of relatedness… Continue reading
Chapter 9 of potential hindrances to our creative development continued… **00IX: An ‘art critique’ is a necessarily painful affair.** I should probably take the time to mention that there is no sure way to actually separate ‘judicative’ and ‘descriptive’ inquiry in an art critique because there is no such thing as neutral observation or a neutral… Continue reading