Today's Daily Art: Let It Rain

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Feeling gray toyday!

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Today's Daily Art: Red Haired Woman

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Some see worry, some see despair, some see neglect; but others see strength, others see courage, others see pride... I see the human condition, it's all of them. There is beauty in all of these perceptions and ugliness in each one. Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, beauty is in everything and absence of beauty is in the perception of the beholder.

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Today's Daily Art: Red Root

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Manipulation of light can make an interesting piece. When you place light sources where you do not expect it, it makes you see things in a different way. This is why Christmas lights are so magical. We are all used to seeing lights in trees and on houses and buildings but it is an unnatural manipulation of a light source that happens in one season a year. Take the stars, put them in the ground and light up the leaves of a tree and you have something different to look at. Enjoy!

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Today's Daily Art: Red Coat

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Happy Holidays to all of you!

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Today's Daily Art: Orange Mist

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I have been posting my drawings to a twitter group called #draw365. They are attempting to do a drawing everyday for 365 days. Sitting with a pencil and paper is the most basic function of an artist. They plan, sketch, dream, build form, plan color, etc. A drawing or idea then evolves into a painting, sculpture, video, performance or what ever it will be. The original drawing is the core of the thought that must be captured in the final piece. The drawing is the raw inspiration and if your skills as an artist are there, the drawing is the purest form of thought. To deviate to far from that thought would take away the raw connection that was once made. So... how do you do a painting, sculpture, video or performance and keep the original raw intensity? Don't let a good idea get in the way of good art. Good ideas kill art, stick to your original thought on paper, your... drawing!

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Today's Daily Art: Portrait of Norm

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This is an image I paint often. It is an image that has a lot of power for me. When I was a kid, I had friend named Norm. He was burned over 70% of his body. This is how I imagine him looking today. To me, he is a strong person that has few friends and living is a challenge. I draw strength from his struggle in life and honor him.

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Today's Daily Art: Orange Forest

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone Photo, Brushes app: It's Saturday night before Christmas and not much to say except Happy Holidays!

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Today's Daily Art: Green Cliff

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Mood captured in any art is difficult. It can be done with the use of color, form and contrast. All to master painters throughout history could manipulate mood and make us feel. The beauty of capturing mood is that each viewer will have a different reaction. To me, this iPhone painting may (in my opinion) capture a Corny, misty magical mood but it does capture a mood. If you look at my figurative work, it is all about form and mood. This is what emotionally draws the viewer in and makes them want to come back and look at it longer or some times never want to see it again. There are those pieces that just get you... mood is the hook.

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Today's Daily Art: Abstract Lanscape Red/Green

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo, Brushes app: Sometimes it's just about playing with shape and color until you like what you see. If comfort is the death of creativity, put yourself in the middle of something you don't know how to get out of and get out of it... step back and enjoy!

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Today's Daily Art: Man With Red Hair

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone painting, Brushes app: (8) If you embrace dynamic change with your tools, your message and your technique, your art will be in constant flow. I forget which master painter said this but if you ever think you have created a masterpiece, you never will. Thinking you have arrived will stop your journey in it's tracks. Comfort is the death of creativity.

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Today's Daily Art: Figure Dancing

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo, Brushes app: (8) What are you doing everyday to learn more! If you have not seen this the YouTube; Shift Happens video http://bit.ly/8rLH6H take the time, watch and embrace the dynamic change! It is here... even for artists!

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Today's Daily Art: Woman With Hair

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo, Brushes app: (7) Now let's get back to the nuts and bolts of managing the success of your career as an artist. Don't assume you know where to interested parties are coming from. You need to start from the beginning to tag your SOB... Source of business. How people finds you and what you did to get them to you is critical for building your branding marketing campaign. Some of the most financially successful artists turned it into a business while doing what they do best. You may not like his work, (I don't at all) but Dali was a master at marketing and branding himself. Picasso (just the opposite, love his work) was a master at not just his art but branding his many phases or periods of his art. So many resources are available to us today that all we need to do is use, as artists, what is in front of us. Achieve transparency through rows and columns. What that means is... build a matrix to track and manage the response you get form your efforts. Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Your Blog, Your website, word of mouth, art shows, flyers, art parties, business cards, gallery referrals, etc, etc, etc. As I have mentioned, you can not manage what you do not measure. As an example, if you send out a link for people to click on, tag it by using free services like www.bitly.com where it shortens the browser address and tracks how many times it was clicked and where in the world people are looking at your art. Put this data into an excel spreadsheet (Rows and Columns) and the numbers will tell you where you need to concentrate your efforts to get the best result and track those results to make sure it was right. An artplane does not fly from point A to point B, the navigational system constantly reads the location and the destination and recalibrates to path, it zig zags to its destination. As artists, we must zig zag to your success. Become financially free through your art by managing it like a business because it is just that.

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Today's Daily Art: Man With Hair

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo, Brushes app (6) Propaganda for your art and branding your name can come in many forms. Of course Twitter is a great way for many people at once to see your art and get to know you as a person but don't underestimate the power of a good video. Next time you go out to an art opening or out partying it up, capture some video and turn it into a cool short clip with music and post it. Tour your studio with a video, add some music and post it. If you have an art show, capture some good video and an interview. If you don't capture these events and share them, it is as though they did not happen. Say it once and replicate it to many, this is the power of social media today, take advantage of it.

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Today's Daily Art: Woman's Face

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo, Brushes app: (6) The next section we will discuss is a media portal. Everyone that is branding themselves as an artist needs to propagandize and market your achievements. Take pictures and take video of all your work and events. People want to be apart of something cool and fun. People don't know how cool you are until you get yourself out there and invite them into your life. This used to be difficult and expensive... not any more! More to come...

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Today's Daily Art: Man With Hands In Front

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo, Brushes app: (5) One more quick note on culture before we move on. The artists that are most in-touch with culture can create or alter a culture through the influence of their art. This is an example of life imitating art.

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Today's Daily Art: Man With No Hair

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo, Brushes app: (5) I think the best way to find out if you are speaking to a culture, as we have been discussing is to get your work out to as many people as possible and you will see if it speaks to them. Twitter is a great way to distribute your work and track the results. Set your blog up so you see how many people are clicking to your link. Don't expect comments, just monitor the traffic. If you are prolifically producing work and getting it into peoples hands on a regular basis, you will know what is working and what is not based on the flow of traffic. Get them there and keep them coming with consistency. This is the main reason for the daily discipline of drawing everyday. The evolution of your art work will align itself with culture.

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Today's Daily Art: Woman With Hair

iPhone Painting: Pencil Drawing, iPhone Painting, Brushes App: (5) Again the topic we are discussing is the top of our pyramid... Culture. Throughout time, culture has limited itself to location with one exception. The culture created by global distribution and education of art. Because visual art is visual, it can be appreciated and understood at a glance. The impressionists were influences by Asian art without a need to learn the language, history or beliefs. Once you become apart of the global understanding of global art, you transcend all boundaries and go right to the hart of the people. The global social mediums available to us today allow us to glance into every corner of the world in seconds. The impact to the art community is yet to be seen... we are on the wave, enjoy the ride!

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Today's Daily Art: Man With Grin 2

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo, Brushes app: (5) Mastering the culture phase is were the artist faces the world and speaks to them through their art. As I have said before, a powerful experience in the act of creating may leave behind a mark powerful enough to be called art. It is art because it speaks of a culture. The best artists transcend all cultures and speak to the world culture. Just imagine how powerful the act of creating must be to leave that good of a mark that speaks to that powerful moment in time. Next time you are in the presence of a powerful piece of art work, allow yourself to be drawn into that powerful moment in time and experience as much of that moment as you can. The beauty of art is that even though you will walk away from the piece, it will continue to exist as a reflection of a transparency into culture.

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