Recurring motifs can form the narrative of our lives and make art interesting and meaningful. However, artists looking backwards see clearly that not everyone gets their art. This goes deeper, click to read.
Tag Archives: create beauty
My Legacy
Flashback: What is your legacy? In my homemade board game, I just kept drawing all the bad cards. But I still got enough points to leave a legacy. This goes deeper, click to read.
Upholstery for fun and profit
I have my own designs on drapes and upholstered furniture, sometimes drab pieces needing a wake up. So many people need pieces which are one of a kind. This goes deeper, click to read.
I had one dream
Flashback: Do you pay attention to your dreams? Do you even have them? Have you ever had a recurring dream? This goes deeper, click to read.
Flower in voluptuous orange vase
Flashback: This post was originally posted to promote an exhibition where this image was sold. This goes deeper, click to read.
Design decisions – which would you choose?
Flashback: When you are deciding on a design, how do you do it? Do you place the choices together and then carefully compare before you bring other options into the mix? This goes deeper, click to read.
Recurring motifs – what are they and how can they increase your creativity?
Flashback: What creative ideas have you had, things that you love to draw, or write or sing about, objects that you love to create, a signature dish, genre or something else and how can you recycle some of your ideas, expand on them, multiply your creativity and reuse one of your own motifs? This goes deeper, click to read.
And the Oscar goes to…
Flashback: As New Zealand is such a small place, many of us know of one of the guys who won Lord of the Rings Oscars. One of the guys (who won one) brought along a genuine Oscar on Saturday. This goes deeper, click to read.
8 Word Mission – why?
Live simply, love uniquely, learn abundantly, create beauty.
This is my 8 word mission statement. What is yours? This goes deeper, click to read.