metallic automotive paint, acrylics, textured canvas, sanding, staining
Creativity is subtraction.
– Austin Kleon
Quote sourced from Maria Popova’s wondrous exp.lore.com
acrylics
25.10.12
acrylics on textured canvas
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
– Stephen King
22.10.12
acrylic on textured canvas
When I paint I am color.
– Namgyal Rinpoche
21.10.12
light-reflective acrylic paints, textured canvas, breath-strokes
Kabir says:
Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.
– Kabir
20.10.12
dip-dyed handmade washi, graphite, drawing, acrylic paint, stitching, textured card
Creativity is more than just being different.
Anybody can play weird – that’s easy.
What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace – making the complicated simple,
awesomely simple – that’s creativity.
– Charles Mingus
18.10.12
painted silk Habotai, textured card, acrylic paint, fragment of steel gauze
The noun of self becomes a verb.
This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
– Stephen Nachmanovitch
14.10.12
acrylics on textured card
In total acceptance almost everything becomes a revelation.
– Frederick Sommer
12.10.12
acrylic paint, modeling paste, sand, handmade paper
If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic
and just keep one quality necessary to create art,
I would say its trust.
When you learn to trust yourself implicitly,
you no longer need to improve something through your art.
You simply allow it to come out, to be effortless.
It happens just as you grow your hair.
It grows.
– John Daido Loori
10.10.12
acrylic on board, silver leaf, oyster-bed netting, gauze, twine, oyster shell
First thought is best in art.
– William Blake
