Balancing family and art
About juggling my role as both an artist and a parent of two little kids, and the challenges of working from home and raising a family.
"An artist's obligation is to create and support his loved ones." — Yuri Gevorgian Yuroz
Amen. Seriously, what else matters? It is too easy to get hung up on unimportant matters. I know that when my nose is to the grindstone, and I'm cranking ...
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What makes you hungry to make art? What conditions do you need to to be in to find enough fuel to fire your creativity? In his blog today, Wil Wheaton describes a friend of his who quit his well-paying job to start acting:
...he ...
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Working from home can be tough. Working for yourself can be tougher. It's hard not having an infrastructure to work within, guidelines that help you know what's expected of you. It's tough not having any co-workers, ...
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My art group was recently talking about how having kids impact your art career, and Cynthia described it really well:
"It requires discipline and a letting go of whatever idea that you have in your head about what being an artist is all about."
Trying to ...
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My three-year old son present this flower to my wife as a present. It was such a sweet thing to do, I had to try to preserve it through a photograph. Looking it up online, I found that it is a crown-vetch, a plant often ...
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My nearly-3 year old just discovered Snoopy. He's known about the Peanuts for a while, but recently he really connected with the stories. We have several of the Peanuts' holiday specials on DVD, and he began watching them over and over (and over). Within a ...
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Today is the birthday of Ted Geisel, Dr. Seuss. As an artist, he is one of my heros. When people ask me which artists I have been influenced by, I look to people like Ted Geisel and Charles Schulz. Geisel was man who ...
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Jackson, who's 20 months old, often visits me in my studio during the day. Usually it is to play with my spinning chairs, or crawl under the shooting table. Lately, he's loved sitting on my lap and playing with the various pens and pencils I ...
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