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In chemistry, there is something called activation energy, in which a certain amount of energy is required to begin a chemical reaction. Sometimes, when the activation energy is high, the probability of the reaction occurring is low, and a catalyst may be required to facilitate the reaction occurring to create something new. Recently, I have…
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I enjoy asking what new acquaintances’ favorite styles of art are because I love being pretentious. Most of the time I declare my favorite styles to be Post-Impressionism and Surrealism. In Post-Impressionism I specifically love the way the painters paint the crisp white lace on the noble ladies’ dresses. Recently, I have realized however, that…
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A few weeks ago, I facilitated a drawing night that was mostly attended by people who draw on rare occasions. Even though I was leading the event, I actually learned a lot about the perspective of novice drawers. I am not using the word artist, because I’m purely talking about people who do not draw…
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A few weeks ago, I led a drawing workshop in which I focused on making quick figure drawing sketches. Drawing is something I very much like to do and have comfort with, and showing other people is such a different mode. I showed some steps that I used for sketching a modern dancer taking a…
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Last year I participated in The Great Resignation, and left a job at a corporation that was no longer a fit for me and worked on my own projects for several months. This website was born during that time. Since then, I have started a new position working for other people again, but there were…
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Health care is a fun topic for most Americans, and particularly scary for foreigners who are visiting the US. I currently use a direct primary care physician. I originally found this service because I wanted to lessen my dependence on my health insurance and use an independent doctor. This is a service that I believe…
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One of my intentions is to share my artwork with more people I know offline. My imagined artwork is always something I have been super private about, as it expresses what usually goes unverbalized. By imagined artwork, I mean everything that is not drawn from a model, reference image, or view of an existing subject.…
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There are a few main ways I have developed my drawing skills over the years, and a few things that allowed me to show major improvement. Sketching regularly people, objects, and animals from life and from photos has yielded incremental improvement for me. One of the things that has been the most helpful to me…
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I am so grateful for my artistic friends. One of my favorite things to do whenever I visit a new city is to check out the art museums, and it is always so much fun when I can go with other people who appreciate visual arts and are very opinionated about it! Going to art…
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The ability to create your own website is a very empowering option for anyone who wants to share their work, their expertise, their products, or their creative expressions. I would like to follow up on this a bit more because I would like to see more creatives make their own websites. Here is a brief…