“Too many of us never realize our greatness because we get sidetracked by secondary activity” - Og Mandino Law #10 - The power of focus Do you think we are talking about what I like to call The “Oh, look a squirrel” Syndrome? Yes, and no. Yes, we are referring to distractions, but not the … Continue reading Look Here Now… Pay Attention, Please.
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #27: Basquiat Doorways 11-001
Basquiat Doorways 11-001: The History: This is my story and I’m sticking to it… for now. Here is the final sketch done on the same day as others inspired by the biopic on Basquiat. I admit I feeling of reaching for something more than what is offered here. I felt a doorway to that something … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #27: Basquiat Doorways 11-001
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #26: Basquiat Demon 11-004
Basquiat Demon 11-004: The History: This is my story and I’m sticking to it… for now. Following a great biopic on Jean-Michel Basquiat, I was inspired to make a series of drawing. I also indulged my ongoing fantasy of going wild on the city and adding meaningful graffiti where I felt it would work best. … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #26: Basquiat Demon 11-004
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #25: Basquiat Demon
Basquiat Demon: The History: This is my story and I’m sticking to it… for now. A few years ago I saw a great biopic on Jean-Michel Basquiat. His work has intrigued me greatly. I had only seen it in passing in a few books and in connection to Warhol. It is full of contradictions, rebellious … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #25: Basquiat Demon
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #24: Above the crowd
Above the crowd: The History: This is my story and I’m sticking to it… for now. Atmospheric... figures with impossible forms... extensions of the Happiness forms… Well, this is my first thought on it. With some afterthought, I find it is a drawback to a bunch of sketches done as studies for some post-emergence sculptures. … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #24: Above the crowd
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #23: Dreamers 96-008
Dreamers 96-008: The History: This is my story and I’m sticking to it… for now. I’ll let you in on a little secret about these Blues flavoured dreamers. They started as a birthday gift for a college friend, after an afternoon of him telling me more than I really cared to understand about some bass … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #23: Dreamers 96-008
Young Boy
Young Boy Sitting in the metro in a green snowsuit and black and white, striped hat. He’s trying to get comfortable Lying this way and that Using his arm to rest upon. He looks over to his Mother sitting across the way in another seat. He looks down at his seat and pats the space … Continue reading Young Boy
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #22: Dreamers 00-007
Dreamers 00-007: The History: This is my story and I’m sticking to it… for now. I seam to recall watching some old film with Louis Armstrong and the bloody VHS tape got stuck, overlapping the frames of the film and making Louis look like he was in close up and far away at the same … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #22: Dreamers 00-007
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #21: Dreamers 00-006
Dreamers 00-006: The History: This is my story and I’m sticking to it… for now. My college years were spent surrounded by musicians. All my friends were musicians and they talked endlessly about minor F’s, Major G’s, and arpeggios. I had and still have no idea what all that really was. For me, music was … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #21: Dreamers 00-006
You Can’t Do It All By Yourself
Law #9 - Creating your own success team Dale Carnegie is credited for teaching the leadership concept that there is no such thing as a self made man, someone had to help him along the way, and that's the central message of chapter 10 in “If You Think You Can”... TEAMWORK! I hope to illustrate why … Continue reading You Can’t Do It All By Yourself
The New Renaissance Mindset 