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Several years ago, I was visiting my sister in southern British Columbia, Canada. We spent the day in the former mining town of Kimberly, wandering the brick streets now lined with boutiques and shops....
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Anyone in the field of art or design will tell you that there are days when they don’t feel very creative. That can be scary. If your rent relies on you churning out new work, it can be very stressful...
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Do You Like a Good Mess? You May Be a Creative Genius!
I’ve often read of the connection between messiness and artists. There is apparently a direct correlation between disorganization and creative thought. More than one study has shown that creative types...
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I’m a collector of quotes. One of my favorite quotes was written by Brenda Laurel, a brilliant researcher and writer, among other accomplishments: “A design isn’t finished until someone is using it.”...
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Is Copying Someone’s Creative Work a Crime or a Compliment?
As a watercolourist and a glass bead artist I’ve been on plenty of art discussion forums over the years. At least once a year the subject of copying comes up, usually because an artist has found that...
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Many years ago, when I first began to create flame-worked glass beads and jewelry, I worried that as a new artist, I didn’t have a ‘style.’ I could not yet show a body of work about which, when seen,...
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