AUSTIN KLEON : BLOG The art of cutting leaves | Sepientia The art of cutting leaves Posted on 09 January 2010 by admin Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully the surface without cutting or removing the veins. more About Drawing Academy - How to Draw Video Course | Drawing Academy Extrinsic Motivators and Creativity I've been reading some interesting literature on the science of motivation in human behavior. The book is "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" by Dan Pink. In the book Dan presents what four decades of scientific research tell us about what it is that motivates humans. For a quick intro into extrinsic and intrinsic motivators and how they affect us here's one of my favorite RSA videos. So how is this relevant for artists and other creatives? "Something similar seems to occur for challenges that aren’t so much about cracking an existing problem but about iterating something new. “Our results were quite startling,” the researchers wrote. Not always, but a lot of the time, when you are doing a piece for someone else it becomes more “work” than joy. Another study of artists over a longer period shows that a concern for outside rewards might actually hinder eventual success. This result is not true across all tasks, of course. I find this type of research fascinating.
Bluelight - The Front Page February 6, 2014 11:35 PM By Robert Zullo / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The war on drugs, Jack Cole said, has been "far worse" than a failure. Speaking to about 75 students Thursday afternoon at Slippery Rock University, Mr. Cole, a retired New Jersey State Police narcotics detective and a co-founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, called it "a self-perpetuating and constantly expanding policy disaster." Mr. Cole, who will be speaking in Pittsburgh at noon today at the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh's Northside, 701 N. "Once we start treating drug abuse as a health problem instead of a crime problem, we won't have to arrest and sacrifice on the altar of the drug war 1.7 million people a year who we arrest for nonviolent drug offenses, which is what we do today," said Mr. He added that the nation's drug policy has also helped to make the United States the world's leader in per capita incarceration, a phenomenon disproportionately affecting blacks.
PSG Art tutorial 2014 foreword added 2018 Is it possible to write a general tutorial on painting pretty pictures or is this art-thing too complex and magical to ever be understood, a thing for human intuition only? No human is alike, but we live in the same environment and train our brains together. I believe this creates certain shared structures which can be analysed and understood, at least on a sufficiently useful superficial level. I think anyone who practices a trade a lot will begin to formalise the relevant structures, many of them subconsciously. Getting started from nowhere It has been claimed that you need to put ten thousand hours into a skill to "master" it, whatever that means. So, anyways. Self-critique ghost Sometimes, often, an image just feels wrong somehow. Fix that thing! On studies I seldom do studies, but when I do I notice improvement very quickly. To see the complete picture faster, and to give you something to hold on to, you can put down blobs and reference marks. End 2014/2018 Hues
Quilling - Turning Paper Strips into Intricate Artworks Quilling has been around for hundreds of years, but it’s still as impressive and popular now as it was during the Renaissance. The art of quilling first became popular during the Renaissance, when nuns and monks would use it to roll gold-gilded paper and decorate religious objects, as an alternative to the expensive gold filigree. Later, during the 18th and 19th centuries, it became a favorite pass-time of English ladies who created wonderful decorations for their furniture and candles, through quilling. Basically, the quilling process consists of cutting strips of paper, and rolling them with a special tool. It sounds simple enough, but special skill is required to create more advanced shapes like marquises, arrowheads or holly leaves. All through the years, the art of quilling has remained almost unchanged, but new specialty supplies now allow quilling masters to create anything from detailed 3-D figures to wall-sized museum installations. Reddit Stumble
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