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aging/artistic journey/Joseph P. Hebert/mountain climbing/philosophy/positive attitude

110 Who we are

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

In 1981 my friend Joe Hebert invited me to join him in an ascent of Devil’s Bedstead, a prominent peak in the Sawtooth Mountain range in Southern Idaho. T...

fear/Performance anxiety/philosophy/plein air

140: No one dies

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

During a studio open house I conversed with a surgeon and mentioned that a medical illustrator–a former surgeon–told me that creating medical illustrations took...

mystery/oceanic feeling/philosophy/unanswered questions

130 Art both rich and strange

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

LIKE MANY artists I occasionally listen to videos as I work. Some of my habitual favorites are TED talks. TED (short for Technology, Education, and Design)...

ads/art collection/collecting/philosophy

163 Why collect art?

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

The deadline for my ad for the Door County Plein Air Festival booklet is at hand. Once again I feel inadequate to describe why potential collectors should ...

creativity/frictionless/kindle/philosophy

161 Frictionless creation

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

There is a concept circulating that suggests the main goal of the digital revolution is to reduce obstacles to creativity. This means eliminating barriers so al...

Highly Sensitive People/philosophy/sounds/Van Gogh

159 High sensitivity

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

Many artists have been plagued by high sensitivity including Vincent Van Gogh and Leonardo Da Vinci. As mentioned in a previous blog I was diagnosed w...

academic painting/art fusion/art synthesis/philosophy

151 Art synthesis

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

According to the German philosopher Georg Hegel the intellectual process involves thesis (an original idea), antithesis (an opposing idea), and synthe...

abstracts/alligatoring/philosophy/texture

187 The Virtues of Chaos

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.–T. S. Eliot I st...

5 reasons/art collecting/believing in art/painting collection/philosophy

181: Five reasons to collect art

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

YOU BELIEVE IN AUTHENTICITY When people enter a well furnished room and see a fabulous painting they want to get closer. Such magnetism is a powerful emoti...

art objectives/goal setting/new year/philosophy

207: The next best step

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

Cliff Shadows, 9″ x 11″, 8 color woodcut WRITING a journal helps you keep track of goals you have made. Although I keep a journal I’ve le...

experimentation/improvement/learning/philosophy/practice

206: How to improve

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

Summer Light, 11″ x 11″, 8 block woodcut When reflecting on how to improve in the coming year we might come up with the usual ideas: practice and st...

improvement/learning/philosophy/Wozniak

205: Practice deliberately

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

When research psychologist Anders Ericson was young he played chess competitively with classmates. One day he played against a boy he had beaten decisively in e...

abstracts/imperfection/magical contagion/paradox/philosophy/woodcuts

204: The Artist’s Mark

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

If we envision a continuum with the artist’s physical presence on one end and manufactured objects on the other where does a work of art fall on that spec...

experimentation/philosophy

197: Trials precede transformation

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy–for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves–we must die to one life before we enter another.&nb...

expression/genius/philosophy/style

196: Finding your style

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

This week I’m getting ready for for two shows–an abstract show that will be the largest exhibit of my work to date–and a one night landscape show tha...

civll rights. justice/dreams/philosophy

189: The power of dreams

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

One night I had a dream. And the dream changed me.Like most artists I have drawn since I was young. My earliest dream was to be an artist although I had no idea...

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