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The Magic Easel

by [email protected] | Jan 23, 2021 | Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture

Hi Robert, I am an artist, Ron Gianola, from Detroit living in northern Michigan. I have a story you may find interesting. I was a student at Arts and Crafts, later CCS, for years. Automotive Industrial Design, Illustration, later Fine Arts. Around the mid 80’s I...

Right Twice a Day

by [email protected] | Jan 17, 2021 | Motivational, Random Favorites, Uncategorized, World View

A Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day People don’t like to be told what they “should” do. These days, people prefer to construct their own morality, particularly true when it comes to choosing whether or not to get the Covid19 vaccination. Many people simply do not...

Hitler and the Creative Spirit

by [email protected] | Jan 8, 2021 | Fine Art, Motivational, World View

How unfortunate that Hitler turned out to be a better dictator than he was a painter. I often wonder how much suffering the world would have been spared if only he had remained a painter instead of becoming the evil force he did become. Moral: Buy Art or the World...

Let’s Get this Party Started

by [email protected] | Jan 8, 2021 | Motivational, World View

Methinks those feigning surprise and outrage about the right resorting to violence this past January 6th must have been asleep the last 400 years. At the root of conservatism is racial violence. It’s as American as apple pie; it is our collective scourge for allowing...

Forward from The Power of Positive Painting

by [email protected] | Jan 1, 2021 | Art Instruction, Motivational

Forward from “The Power of Positive Painting” A lot has changed in the art world in the forty plus years since I embarked on my career. Academia is finally embracing contemporary realism – realism that has something important to say about our world....

Private Lessons Are the Way

by [email protected] | Dec 29, 2020 | Art Instruction, Motivational, Portraiture

Virtual or In-person Private Lessons Covid19 has everybody making adjustments. As an artist, I am going about my business very differently than usual. The Pandemic is an interrupter to the art business, in a lot of ways. Fortunately, as a visual artist, a lot of my...

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