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by [email protected] | Sep 12, 2021 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Theatre Related, World View

I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a while who asked me where my hat was. I stammered, “what hat?” He said, “c’mon, you always wear a hat!” It is true that I sometimes wear hats; the sun can be murderous on bald heads. I was struck, however, that his...

Learning Can Be Painful – Part One

by [email protected] | Aug 3, 2020 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Random Favorites, Theatre Related, World View

Here is my response to a fascinating blog about my Alma Matter/professional acting school, Circle in the Square. Much of what we learned at Circle was about neutralization, where the goal is to find our neutral, so we might then add or take away any color, behavior,...

Are Quick Studies More Professional?

by netGALAXY Studios | Dec 17, 2014 | Art Instruction, Motivational, Theatre Related, World View

Talent has more to do with our ability to to assimilate and integrate new information into what we already know than any special genetic predisposition. Some are quicker on the uptake. But often these people lose interest in their natural abilities. Those who...

Ego and Identity

by netGALAXY Studios | Sep 7, 2014 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Theatre Related, World View

We Place so much stock in our identities. Here are just a few of the millions of examples: “I am an artist,” “I am a loving person,” “I am a Christian,” “I am an American,” “I am gay,” “I am a...

Artist as Bricklayer

by netGALAXY Studios | Nov 4, 2013 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Theatre Related, World View

“Find the art in yourself, not your self in the art.” Stanislavski Exploring structure by seeing the artist as bricklayer Whether you are an abstract expressionist or a photo realist it might be time to think of your job more as a bricklayer than as some...

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