WHY BEING SMART ISN’T INTELLIGENTOr, You’re overthinking. Two thirds of human intelligence is a metaphysical experience. Stop analyzing and do Your work!Here’s a problemKevin Kelly (founder of Wired Magazine and…
The Vision Splendid — a masterpiece of the short short story Written by Peter Carey (novel and screenplay), this short short story opens the Australian movie Bliss (1985). Whether Carey knew it or…
ON BEING AN EMPATH I am a true empath and I am never wrong. In this post I cover some personal ground. What it is like being highly empathic? How…
The Evolution of Self Help Without consciously trying, seems I'm like every other schmo when it comes to self-help books. There are a few in my library and a few…
Size Matters! Here’s a secret for us painters: size matters. I read a recent post from another painter. As a social media exercise he did some quick and loose sketches,…
Are we familiar with the classic colour wheel we learned in grade school, right? From the three primaries - Red Yellow Blue - all other colours can be mixed. Well,…
Update!! Yahoo! You are looking at the only carefully researched, voluntarily assembled, non-commercial and non-monetized list of hand made / small scale makers of fine artist paints in the world…
The renaissance palette I would love to get ahold of the renaissance palette, just to work with the colours and see how much they contributed to the look of…
Art Forgery. A way to make some bucks! (Don’t do it. Well, if you’re that good, absolutely do it! But sign a name that isn’t the artist you are forging,…
Compensation in the world of visual art. It occurred to me how unique the visual artist is within the expanding “Creative Class”. Back in 2010 Richard Florida correctly predicted that…