by Nancy Hillis | Jun 6, 2021
The Hero’s Journey & Art Our lives are a hero’s journey of moving from the known to the unknown and returning back again, transformed. As artists, we continually step into the unknown and evolve our work. We search and find our way, lose and...
by Nancy Hillis | May 30, 2021
Creativity and Einstein’s Riddle We all work in sales, and the hardest person to sell to is ourselves. By “sales,” I don’t mean buying dish detergent and batteries and the like. I mean it in the more abstract sense, and the word Bruce has coined...
by Nancy Hillis | May 23, 2021
Creativity & The Power Of Subtraction Creative Subtraction is not ‘Less Than’. How often have we heard the phrase, “Your painting/art/music/recipe/writing needs something.” Along with this observation comes a hidden assumption. Namely “needing...
by Nancy Hillis | May 16, 2021
Abstract Painting Demo: Integrating New Brushstrokes Today, we’re revisiting this post which ran preciously. One of the considerations when going back into a painting is integrating new brushstrokes into the work and working from an exploratory,...
by Nancy Hillis | May 9, 2021
Writ in Water: Ephemerality, Invisibility, and Creativity Recently we had cause to think of John Keats, the British Romantic poet (1795-1821) who wrote a mere 53 poems and died at the age of 25, making Mozart (aged 35) look like a venerable grandfather....
