Laura Hines
@obscurelaura
Artist // Co-founder, Creative Director of the The Obscure
Laura Hines
laurahines.net
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.comIn order to learn you also need to forget, to make room, to stop seeing something one way so you can start seeing it another way - Mark Lewis
For oil painters: Increase the fluidity of your paint by mixing the colour with glaze medium (a mix of linseed oil, dammar varnish and solvent), and apply with a fine round or rigger brush for flowing, even, unbroken lines.
Lisa Takahashi • Ways to Sign Your Paintings
I asked Kelly about the tradeoffs of focusing on a single thing if you want to be great (which is what I had been getting at before). “Greatness is overrated,” he said, and I perked up. “It’s a form of extremism, and it comes with extreme vices that I have no interest in. Steve Jobs was a jerk. Bob Dylan is a jerk.”
Brie Wolfson • Flounder Mode
“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band."
-Brian Eno.
Above all, artisans care about connection . Connection to themselves, to their craft, to their traditions, and to the places and people they serve. They don't treat themselves, their collaborators, or their customers as impersonal, economic units. Artisans understand that a creative life is a long game, and the only way to win such games is b
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