Tag Archives: Painters

Organisational Dysfunction

Posted on June 8, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

As you gather creative skills, you accumulate stuff – tools, books, supplies, finished works. An infinitely expanding universe No matter what your art, the accoutrements necessary to conduct your creative work must be gathered. If you’re an electronic circuit designer, … Continue reading →

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Forgetting to Breathe

Posted on June 7, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

There’s a mistake that less experienced composers sometimes make. When writing music for singers, brass or woodwind players, they write phrases so long and elaborate that nobody can actually perform them. They forget to leave spaces to breathe. Creativity in … Continue reading →

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Progress-Limiting Habits

Posted on May 24, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

We’re creatures of habit. One of our dominant modes of learning is repetition. We start slowly, but by developing a habit for doing, we improve incrementally. We get better at things by doing them over and over again, initially badly, … Continue reading →

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Art Smuggling

Posted on October 3, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

There’s something important about LP records that the inventors of the compact cassette, compact disc and streaming music services evidently failed to grasp. If they were to be believed, these music delivery formats had a single function – to deliver … Continue reading →

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Impasse

Posted on June 24, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

Occasionally, you lose sight of your own future – the one you envision for yourself and strive toward. It’s very disorienting when that happens. That ideal life you’d like to lead becomes a diffuse and obscure cloud of confusion. When … Continue reading →

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How Many Creative Options Do You Need?

Posted on June 11, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

This is a hard lesson to learn for many artists, myself included. Here it is, though: adding more creative options only causes you to reach a point of diminishing returns quite rapidly. Beyond that point, having more creative options available … Continue reading →

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Ethical Erosion

Posted on June 8, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

What if every problem that besets humanity could be traced to a single root cause? We may be the authors of our own misery for one very simple reason – we behave badly. We behave badly, because we think we … Continue reading →

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Expense or Investment?

Posted on May 21, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

It all depends on how you look at things. Two people can observe the same event, but because of their default mental models about that happenstance, conclude that two entirely different and irreconcilable consequences have resulted. What you think happened … Continue reading →

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On Self-Determination

Posted on January 14, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

Being in command of your own destiny is a funny thing. Too little and you have no freedom or liberty. Too much and you harm yourself and the community around you. There is a delicate balance to be struck between … Continue reading →

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Confelicity

Posted on January 8, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

There is a very beautiful word that isn’t much used, in the English language. The word is confelicity. If you’re like me, you wouldn’t have encountered it much either. It’s so rare that my spelling checker is complaining about it, … Continue reading →

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