Guest post: One or two things I know about time and creativity
Time is one of the big blocks that people put forward as impediments to being creative. Time is tricky. We know it doesn’t behave normally. Sometimes it crawls by and others it races like a crazy fake rabbit roaring along the racetrack of life.
Here are one or two things I know about time and creativity:
Guest Post: How To Become The World’s Strongest Artist (In 5 Minutes A Day)
Today’s post is a guest post from Creativity Coach, Dan Goodwin. Find out how to become the world’s strongest artist in just five minutes a day.
Guest Post: A simpler life for artists
This post was written by Blue Perez, follow her on Twitter. I recently decided to focus on a simpler life, a simpler creative practice, and helping others to simplify their lives and practice. I gave up a career as a photographer. I woke one day to find I couldn’t bear the mass of clutter it more »
Guest post: Five (offline!) ways to find inspiration
This post was written by the talented and imaginative Laura Barnard. Check out her website and follow her on Twitter. Recently, I’ve been trying to make a concerted effort not to use just the computer for inspiration (clearly, deciding to embark on a mission that involved a greater time than usual outside was a genius more »
Guest Post: 8 reasons why should you consider sponsoring art and artists
This post was written by Sarah Zoutewelle-Morris. Follow her blog here. 1. Because art and culture are essential parts of being human. Without them we would have no inner life. When Winston Churchill, was asked to scrap art grants during WW2, he said in effect, “A society without the arts would not be worth winning more »
Guest Post: 10 easy ways to support artists
..the largest subsidy of cultural life, “comes not from governments, corporations, or other patrons, but from the artists themselves, through their unpaid or underpaid labour.” Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists. (The above was quoted in a unpublished English translation of the book, Confrontaties by Joost Smiers). If you visit an artist’s studio more »
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I'm Michael Nobbs, an artist, blogger and tea drinker (not necessarily in that order).
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