Oil Pastels: Gateway Drug?

There’s something that catalyzes the creative half of my brain when I can tangibly experience the analog process of creativity. No screen. No music. No show in the background. No entertainment aside from the silence of my own ability to create. And last night, no experience. Last night, the tangibility was the sticky oil ofContinue reading “Oil Pastels: Gateway Drug?”

The Vampire Test

“‘Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.’ – Derek Sivers “There’s a funny story in John Richardson‘s biography A Life of Picasso. “Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking all the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people like he squeezed one ofContinue reading “The Vampire Test”