Still trippin’ that my Art was exhibited at, and I got to live paint 🎨 at The Philadelphia Museum of Art 🤯❤️ #pinchme

Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

Such brilliant and true advice. Artists, I’ve been there too. But grinding and burning yourself out, being desperate, using your art as a means to an end…that’s not the way. The process should matter more than the rewards. The practice > validation Listen to @RickRubin, he’s right.

“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”— Steven Pressfield

I just got back into yoga. I missed it. I need it. It makes me feel more human. This original is one that seeing it on an iPhone screen doesn’t do it justice. I’ve come to realize how similar painting is to yoga. Harder than I think I can handle sometimes, always pushing you further, seeping. Physical…yes..but that mental exploration component. That’s where the magic lies. It quiets the thoughts & lights up the connections. Anyway, here’s a painting I made. May all beings everywhere be happy and free. 🙏 “Scorpion Sunrise” - oil on panel in custom frame 🖼️

I will be open to creating what comes to be without judgment. I will make time and space to allow this creative process to happen. I will not dictate what I’m delivered to create. I will not try to predict the outcome or allow expectations to interrupt the signal. I will be devoted and disciplined to make art.

Bustin’ a move with my bro Steve.

It’s absolutely ridiculous that @instagram hasn’t figured out how to allow us to have multiple aspect ratio photos in a multiple photo post yet.

AI can’t replace that feeling I get when I mix colors together in my art studio. Output and results aren’t everything. The process is what matters.

Artists should make art because it lets you bring to fruition something that once never existed. That alone is reason enough. Doesn’t matter if AI can do it, or do it better. We can still make something that it didn’t make. Make it.

Enjoying your creative process is way more important than making money from your creativity.

This entire interview with @RickRubin by @StevenBartlett is worth listening to. This clip really caught me because currently I’m working on a new painting and I keep learning this lesson over and over again. Sometimes the parts of your work that you fall in love with turn out just to be a sign for a detour and not the destination. The process — when done right, is messy, chaotic, at times stressful, and yet…worth it. Trust the process. Be unrealistic, disciplined and sometimes delusional, and just do the work.

Artists 🚨 listen up: AI can copy what people make. AI will eventually outperform what most people make. But AI can never replace the the connection feel when you make what you make.

Nevermind that AI is taking over creative output — commercially at least (it is). The fact is that for most people, chasing money thru your creativity -> kills the purity of your connection. Making your art into “work” — does just that. It’s no longer your expression, your private exploration, it’s WORK.

Well known & influential people connect with other influential and well known people because at least subconsciously they feel that they can help each other. Also - it prequalifies the people as those that “get it”. Not on a deep sense, but the path feels similar and to some extent, you’re on the same journey. Famous people aren’t any cooler or more interesting but they take risks or got lucky and that feels contagious. And to some level, it is. You’re the average of the people you surround yourself with. This isn’t good or bad in and of itself. But be aware of your intentions and the intentions of others.

The algorithm trained a whole generation of artists to make content instead of work.

“Ignore it, reject it and it’ll go away” didn’t work with computers, the internet, digital music, digital photography, digital art, digital audio or video editing —- but it’ll definitely with AI.

This generation rejecting AI sound like what they stereotype boomers to sound like rejecting pre-AI technology

🚨 🎨 How to make your first million as an artist while keeping your creativity pure. Start a business and/or invest and keep your Art practice separate. Work your butt off, solve a problem at scale, and keep doing your art just because you love it. This is unsexy advice, but the truth.