What is Beauty – Part 4 of 4

The simple thought is, if beauty gives you pleasure you should surround yourself with it. The challenge is, to do something to create beauty or turn the things you are given that you see as not beautiful into something that is, in your opinion, beautiful. The...
What is Beauty – Part 3

What is Beauty – Part 3

People should have beauty in their lives – whatever it is to that person. I like helping people get that, something that is beautiful by their own standards. I enjoy helping others experience that feeling of being rich, that can be imparted by being surrounded by...
What is Beauty – Part 2

What is Beauty – Part 2

Everyone appreciates beauty, but nobody agrees on what is beautiful. There’s a house near us that is junked beyond belief and I think, my god, how does someone live in that? But I guarantee you, in some way and to some degree, the owner sees all that junk as...
What is Beauty

What is Beauty

Appreciation of beauty is part of our natural makeup, but it’s affected by a lot of things, like how you’re brought up… It comes down to a way of seeing. You can look at a piece and see that its color is perfect, that it’s fibonaccially perfect, that it does...
On Being a Mature Artist – Part 5 of 5

On Being a Mature Artist – Part 5 of 5

Working With Clients If you put your work in front of people and get people’s reaction to it, you take that in and are affected by it. It’s what an artist needs to do. When you do it, your work will change. I told one client that I’d found a really nice board to use...