Musings

Often when people find out I’m an artist, they will lean in very cautiously, and embarrassingly admit to me that they just don’t “get” most…

What makes a bridge strong? Is it the materials used, or the engineering technology employed in its creation? Is it how much weight it can…

Is copying bad in art? In my experience within art education communities, there is a deeply held belief that copying anything in art is harmful….

What happens when an art community suppresses itself? Types of Community Suppression When I was 14, my classmate, who I will call “D” and I…

“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.” –…

Cameras are just one way of translating information onto a 2D surface in a realistic way. But photography is not the only way. And definitively…

Is atelier training Eurocentric art? When considering mathematical concepts, rarely do people worry if the Pythagorean Theorem came from Ancient Greece, and that the symbols…

Artists work hard to lose their assumptions about what they are seeing, and truly observe the scenes before them. This is known as nurturing an…

When artists abandon beauty and the human figure as worthy subjects, the advertising industry fills the vacuum with glee. This article explores why the creation…

As an art teacher, nothing is more ire-inspiring to me than the proliferation of prodigy propoganda. We see them everywhere on social media – young…