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Hiya!

I was reading through my notes and ideas to get rolling on comics again and found this list of things I've learned about art by teaching it. I thought you Tumblr-ites might appreciate it because I know a lot of you are young artists or creatives who want to get better at what you love to do. Some of these may seem obvious, but almost all the students I've ever taught struggled with these things:

Practice is everything.

EVERYONE can improve, see number one.

Fear is not productive or necessary.

Nobody is judging you as harshly as you judge yourself (So stop. No really, please stop, you'll feel so much better).

Art is hard to master, but you don't have to master it to enjoy making it.

Excuses are annoying and you're only cheating yourself.

Humility is the only way to grow.

The best teachers don't try to make their students into copies of themselves. Look for mentors who push you to be a better version of you.

WHEN you get frustrated, take a break and reset (you will get frustrated).

Practice should be something you enjoy but some days will be harder than others.

The image is my painting of the Santa Cruz Surfer Statue on the cover of my sketchbook that I painted during the plague years (it's about 8 inches or 20 cm high and I'm not sure why that's relevant except that it looks kind of weird).

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Passions of Paul

What are you passionate about? I’m passionate about my art: Fine art prints of Paul’s art are available from his website I’m passionate about my music: I’m passionate about my writing: Three of my books available from my website I’m passionate about nature: Bugs in my garden I’m passionate about education. There is lots of free teaching advice on this WordPress site and…

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Bearded Iris

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The World. Art by Kaitlyn Taylor, from The Maker’s Tarot.

Art teaching.

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Watercolour and biro pomegranates

the fear of art consuming me has already come to pass. fear in its many forms always comes to pass, in one form or another, and this in itself has me looking at fear as one thing rather than many things, it is a shapeshifter. rather than look at fear thru a lens of shaping it into something else, examine fear itself. it’s a total movement.

all the things we go out to to piece ourselves together. what we’ve collected, the collection. in memory of the something, we “hold” memorials for what’s wanting to pass, but, we won’t let it because we get a sense of ourselves in keeping it going, so the collective is dependent on the thing to maintain itself and fear relinquishing that mold as they’ve melded themselves to it, therefore, continuinity is in the parts and this breaks up attention. where attention is broken, memory is a fragmentation.

not held together properly, improper behavior takes place, and that disorderly conduct is made into a value system, given a name, and secured as the structure by which all abide, another sense, the sensation of morality, a high. what goes to the head. continued practice of this is refractory, against the actuality, out of fear of loss, what is collecting. the continuum is the flow that is streaming, a river that finds itself going away from the source, this we go with. security. in security. insecurity. having built a shoddy model, having gone the wrong way, we are too full of ourselves to admit that these things of what we’ve made are undoing us and doing the exact opposite of what we think.

contradiction.

where there are opposites, there is bound to be opposition.

polarization of war is peace, of misery, is happiness, an unstable mechanism of measurement, born out of thought, from an axon. that axon is an axle, the gear turning, similar to an axis, similar to what is in orbit, on a tilt. it leans against and turns into something that keeps it going. both pressure and tension. tensegrity.

fear is the tensegrity.

what are we without fear, not in the branches(multiples; variations), as a whole, both to the “individual” and the collective?

is it merely concept or an actual thing? is it now or later? if it’s later it can never be now, and if it isn’t now, then it isn’t real. so where does that leave us currently? what slows us down?

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#62 CAMELLIAS IN BLOOM

My most recent painting, “Camellia Tree” was definitely an exercise in patience. It also became an opportunity for me to explore endless green color variations because I painted a lot of foliage. I took photographs of my overgrown camellia bush for a period of two weeks. When the first flowers bloomed, their vibrancy was exquisite and the center petals were more closed up. Later on, the bush had…