TODAY'S FEATURED POST
a Thanksgiving story
Don’t have much art that I can show at the moment, so I thought I’d treat you to a fun thanksgiving story. This one time, years ago back when I was just starting out, a friend of mine reached out to me with a prospective illustration job. It was 1996, I was living in El Paso Texas, before I’d moved to San Francisco and gone to art school. Art jobs were scarce and you took…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Unconventional Inspiration: Beyond the Visual
November 1, 2024 - Inspiration comes in many forms. As visual artists, the obvious place to find inspiration is other visual experiences. However, some of my favorite ideas often come from sources that are not strictly visual. Here are some rocks to turn over to find your next great idea or inspiration: Buy the Frame, Make the Painting It's kind of like starting with the end, and reverse engineering the idea. For example: These two frames were being sold together. Good price, cool frames... so I figured let's just pull together everything I had 2 of. This lead to realizing I don't have a lot of things in double but I do have things that are in pairs (salt shakers, book ends, dice, etc) Voila! [caption id="attachment_78262" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] Animus and Anima[/caption] Poetry or Lyrics Poetry, especially abstract or…
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Doing it for free
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inspiration- by Jesper Ejsing
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Shaun Tan wins Oscar !
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LTD
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Happy 25th Birthday, Link!
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