Art Supply House & Custom FramingI believe in the power of the arts. Visual, written, performing, you name it. Art is the means through which we inform, educate, entertain, and learn about the world around us. We take issues, triumphs, emotions, stories, and channel them into powerful works of art. Art heals. Art entertains. Art teaches. Art leads. I was […]
Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world …~ E.A. Bucchianeri It’s a busier-than-normal time of year for so many of us. Between work, family, friends… or just traffic… the daily flow seems different. Whatever your life looks like, this week is a good time for a […]
Now is only becoming more now.~ Jack Spirko Recently I’ve been thinking about time and how flexible it is. So much of how fast or slow time feels depends on our individual perception. When we’re doing something fun, time seems to fly by. It crawls when we’re in the middle of drudgery or anticipation. If […]
I was recently reading through an art magazine and one page caught my attention. It asked the question “what is your favorite art medium, and why?” The answers shared were all different – different mediums, different reasons why. Some I agreed with completely and some were the opposite of how I would have answered. And […]
intro paragraph. Art materials and techniques are only one facet of humanity. We’re different in so many different ways. We prefer and dislike different foods, methods of learning, means of travel, and so much more. It’s easy to get caught up in our own thoughts (after all, don’t we all live inside our brains?) and […]
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.~ C.S. Lewis It can be really hard to stop a project, or to drastically change creative directions. Maybe we’ve been making a particular type of work for a long time, and now we’re switching it up. We have […]
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.~ Søren Kierkegaard Art can be a solitary pursuit – working by ourselves in our studio. Yet, we are not alone. Our artistic ancestors are there. Da Vinci and the Mona Lisa are ancestors of all oil painters. Michelangelo’s David lead the way for sculptors […]
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.~ Ovid In Greek, leisure is a word that means school. Leisure historically meant freedom for intellectual or creative pursuits – rather than the current concept of lounging around doing nothing, of an opportunity to completely shut down. Historically, it wasn’t about simply killing time […]
Always do the very best you can. If you’ll just make a commitment to improving the quality of your work, incrementally, you’ll see enormous changes over the span of years.~ Tom Tischler What would it take to create a business that will still be here in 100 years? This is a question I reflect on […]
There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading in the same direction, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only one wasting time is the one who runs around and around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong. ~ Hindu proverb on the many ways to win […]