Art for Art’s Sake Yes, this Topic Gets Under My Skin! “‘Art for art’s sake ’ is the usual English rendering of a French slogan from the early 19th century, “l’art pour l’art“, and expresses a philosophy that the intrinsic value of art, and the only “true” art, is divorced from any didactic, moral, or […]
What Inspires Me? To Muse or not to Muse… What inspires me? Where do I find inspiration? I get questions like this from time to time about inspiration. I suppose that those not creatively inclined find it interesting. It’s something that’s incredibly unique to every artist, musician, dancer, actor, etc. Some call that inspiration a […]
How Artists See In as Small a Nutshell as Possible As I indicated at the end of my previous post, Not Good Enough Mentality, artists see differently than most. When I bring up how artists see, I’m not referring to them seeing something completely different from what other people see. What I’m referring to is more of […]
Meeting Deadlines Whether you’re an artist for Disney or a freelance artist, you undoubtedly have deadlines. Meeting deadlines can get tricky if you take on too much. I’m sure missing deadlines for Disney, Warner or Pixar has its consequences. Missing deadlines as a freelance artist could easily cost you a good client. So what is […]
Art and Culture Do the Ties that Bind Still Hold True? Art and culture. What is this strange tie between the two? I once thought that art simply was an element of culture. That you could not have one without the other. I definitely think that was the case thousands of years ago and probably […]
Step by Step Drawing Process How I Approach a Project I thought I’d take you through the step by step drawing process of my last commission. I thought it might help being on the heels of the post I did recently entitled How Do You Do That. Every artist has their own particular step by […]
Art History: Modern Art The section of art history which encompasses modern art, spans from 1860-1970. It includes movements such as Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Abstraction, and Pop art. Modern art was really (at least in my mind) all about breaking the rules, breaking away from traditions of the past in favor for […]
Art History: Middle Ages For the next two periods of art history, the art of the Middle Ages and Modern, my interest ebbs and flows with the subject matter. The art of the Middle Ages, or Medieval art, encompasses a large chunk of time. It begins just after the fall of the Roman Empire in […]
Art History – Ancient Art Every Art major has to take three semesters of Art History as part of their curriculum. They consist of Ancient Art (prehistoric-early Medieval), Medieval Art (Medieval-16th century), and Modern Art (16th century-contemporary). Of the three, Ancient Art was and still is my absolute favorite. It’s no surprise really. One of […]
A Day in the Life What Do Artists Do All Day? What’s a day in the life of an artist like? What do we do all day? Do we just hunker down in our studios drawing, painting, and sculpting all day? I think if you ask what a day in the life of an artist […]
Straight-up, hands-down, flat-out: Myra Naito does breathtaking work. Highly recommended; way highly. Eleven out of ten stars. This girl is a channeler-artist. Her works goes deep to express the wordless wonder of being-ness itself.
- T. Tajiri
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