by Nicholas Wilton | Aug 5, 2013 |
How do we improve our art? I definitely subscribe to the 10,000 hours of hard work idea. This rule originally proposed in Malcolm Gladwell’s NY Times bestselling book “Outliers, The Story of Success” suggests that only by practicing 10,000 hours at...
by Nicholas Wilton | Aug 1, 2013 |
Today I was working on a large painting. It was mostly white and had tiny black square shapes all over it. It reminded me of a snowy landscape. I was feeling kind of lost, almost as if I was wandering in this enormous white field with black stumps where trees once...
by Nicholas Wilton | Jul 23, 2013 |
I love the quote by the philosopher, poet David Whyte…”Visitation, absence, visitation, absence this is how we learn” This totally rings true for me. When I come back to work on a painting the following day I have about 45 minutes of objectivity....
by Nicholas Wilton | Jul 18, 2013 |
I just returned from Chris Guillenbaum’s World Domination Summit in Portland Oregon. The conference was especially remarkable because of this year’s speakers. I especially was moved by Nancy Duarte visually mapping out the worlds greatest...
by Nicholas Wilton | Jul 11, 2013 |
When I was a in high school I took a stained glass class at a local art store. The first project was to make a Tiffany style lampshade. The pattern was basically a pansy repeating floral motif. The instructions said that I could choose any color of glass I wanted. ...
