Artist's Back to Basics

“Time- part 1”

As Steve Miller once said “Time keeps on slipping, into the future”. It definitely is a slippery little sucker, no doubt about that. You have to invent, generate, develop, and persist with many strategies over the years to have any hope at all of wrenching enough time out of your allotted heartbeats to actually get any kind of serious artwork finished . Most people want the results of their creative pursuits to be reflection of the best of their a abilities and beyond, and time (or lack thereof) is almost always the first and worst limiting factor when it comes to development of artistic skills and the overall standard of artistic work as a whole. And yes, I know a masterpiece can be created in seconds but let’s face it unless it was one of those rare happy accidents in which you are relying on chance rather than skill, artwork is almost always the result of many

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