Helping Artists & Designers Discover Their Purpose
I’ve recently been reading “Imagine- A Vision for Christians in the Arts”; a book that many of you may be familiar with by Steve Turner. Steve comes out of the gates with a concept that unfortunately is not uncommon: that a lot of Christian contemporary art is of poor quality, yet a great deal of art created by non-Christians is of good quality.
His point is that many Christian artists use their redemptive experience as the sole driver in their artistic expression, forsaking basics like training, exploring creative culture and …
Artist/entrepreneur Charlene Rice does it again with her latest series: “Project of the Week”.
Charlene does her version of a how-to video, demonstrating the project as well as selling the “kit” that makes the project happen.
What I like about what she’s doing here is the following:
Charlene has expanded her core artistic gift and uses multimedia to reach others (artists and non-artists alike).
Charlene has put the notion of the “starving artist” to shame and has tastefully created yet another revenue stream that also blesses those that it serves.
Not only can the viewer …
From my post 5 Mistakes Many Artists Make, I always harp on the fact that visual artists hurt themselves by their lack of having a website that showcases their work and their background as an artist.
I would leave the issue alone, but the irony that I see is that many of these same artists use the internet a great deal every day, visiting social networks, email and websites but still have no site of their own.
These artists have admitted their need for a website, want to eventually have one, and …
Here are two new sketches as a part of my “Do Something Creative Everyday” campaign.
I was inspired from watching a documentary last night on Norman Rockwell. It showed how he captured facial expressions by using live models.
I put a twist on Mr. Rockwell’s method by having live models (my daughters) pose so that I could capture their facial expressions. Then I would flesh out the character so that it would have a sci fi look and feel.
Take a look below:
