Today's Daily Art: Man With Grin

iPhone Painting: Pencil Drawing, iPhone Painting, Brushes App: (5) Definition of Culture: The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. There are wide varieties of cultures that are being brought together by the global social mediums at a very fast pace. The art of today and tomorrow will quickly bring a cultural point of view to all of the observers from these vastly different cultures. My point is that at the top of the pyramid we have been discussing is culture and art must speak from one culture to another at a transparent level. My art is about the most raw and naked form of ourselves. That glimpse all of us get of ourselves that sends shivers down our spine because we realize how close we are to those in our culture that scare or threaten us. We will all view, through art, that our cultures are just as similar all our fellow humans we encounter throughout our day. Paint your culture and you paint the worlds collective culture.

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Today's Daily Art: Man in Wind

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo, Brushes App (5) The topic we are on for the next couple of days is the top of our pyramid. To ascend to these heights, you must have a solid base of structure and a knowledgeable practice of your systems. Culture is the top of the pyramid. This is where art imitates life are and sometimes life imitates art. You must first seek to understand before being understood. Live and paint life!

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Today's Daily Art: Woman in Wind

iPhone Painting: Pencil Drawing, iPhone photo, Brushes app: (5) To review where we are with the pyramid: We have discussed the need to build structure to support your base. The next level is a system to establish consistency and next we will talk about culture. This is where your art communicates at an ingrained level to an audience if you tap into a culture. More... More... More... to come...

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Today's Daily Art: Forest with Water

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone painting, brushes app: (4) The topic is still system because this is what keeps you on track. Following a system to create and communicate your art does not need to be complicated. I create daily, weekly and monthly checklists of things I need and want to do. I have a family, a full time job and need my time to be a targeted focus to get the best results. If all I was able to do was create art, it would not accomplish my goal of selling art. Make sure your checklist hits on all key points; creation, communication, sales and distribution. Do a little bit each day for each key point. track it with a checklist and you have a system. A study of successful people uncovered that they each had a simple system but what separated them from others is their consistency to follow their routine each day.

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Today's Daily Art: Man Looking at You

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo, Brushes app: (4) More on the system before I move to the top of the pyramid which is culture. I have recently joined a Twitter group that is doing daily drawing for 365 days. If you are a Tweeter, the group is #draw365. The thing I realized is that I have had a system for creating my art for many years. I always start my concept with a pencil drawing to capture a loose free-flowing image. I always draw the color wheel next to the drawing and start planning the payers of color. I have never shared these drawing before I joined #draw365 and now post the drawings as a tweet post.

The beauty of having a system is that it translates to all mediums. This is how I approach my oil paintings and this is also how I approach my iPhone paintings. Having a system allows you to be creative in the act of painting vs always figuring out what comes next and when the work is done. If you have ever watched the movie Amadeus, Mozart was asked if the commissioned piece was done and he replied, "oh yes it is". Let me see it was the reply. Mozart then with a giggle stated that it is still in his head and the rest is just bibbling and babbling and babbling and bibbling. The act of art is trying to capture the power of the act of painting. Having a system allows you to fully engage in the experience. At the end of the experience. you sit back, take a look and say WOW!

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Today's Daily Art: Woman Looking at You

iPhone Art: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo, Brushes app: (4) Sorry to the non-post for the past couple of days, I was not feeling well. This is a good example of how having a system can benefit you in many ways. I was able to get right back into my routine and deliver a drawing and painting that I like. Part of my system is to remove all reasons not to do my art. Always have your studio clean and ready to sit down and get busy. Don't use it as your table that collects mail or other junk. When I do sit down to create a piece, whether it be iPhone art, a painting or a sculpture I have a process of where I start and how I develop the art to completion. If you don't have a system, you will have many projects out there that are not finished and have no process for completion.

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Today's Daily Art: Light in Forest

iPhone Painting: Brushes App: (4) This is fun taking the business development knowledge that I have accumulated for the past 10 plus years and apply this to the business of being an artist. I will go into the details of the next layer in the pyramid after our discussion of structure from the last 3 posts. Systems is the fundamental application of the accumulative knowledge derived from your mastering the structure of tools. The word system lends itself to a process that you have developed to apply your tools. As an example, understanding the color wheel is one thing but having a system at which you apply the colors to your canvas is critical to develop your art. Your understanding of the social networking sites is one thing but having a system at which you apply communicating your message will expidentialy expand your audience. A system is your development and application of your tools. Remember that your tools run the spectrum from clay and water to global social technology. Get your hands dirty!

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