Thought Row Blog — inspiration

  A 1000 No’s to Get to Yes You ask yourself, "Is it just me always being told NO?" If you're experiencing more than your share of no’s while you're trying to achieve your goals. You just might unknowingly be in a most exclusive club. The NO Means Yes Club. Then again maybe you're not. One of the very first words that you learn after you are born, and repeatedly pounded into your subconscious is the word NO! Unfortunately, as we mature and move through life, the word NO never seems to trail off. Ask any salesman, how many No’s...

  The Interpretive Side Of Non-Interpretive Art: What is this painting all about? You might say it's a disentanglement by me from my usual style, that I call Receptive Abstract Patternernism. There is an obvious interpretive element in this work. The three trees are floating on an island in a sea of blue with a thousand whitecaps. The earth-brown shape that corrals the ocean is dotted with green nonrepresentational foliage. Not too terribly complicated when you take the time to view the work. But it could be more interesting if there was a story to go with it. . The...

The Advice You Want To Hear: Stop doing this to that, and a whole bunch of other things. Advice comes to all of us in bucket loads. Sometimes you ask for it, but a measurable amount is unsolicited. It's usually delivered with, "You should." And we all seem to get hit with "in my opinion." Which somehow is meant to soften the advice. What about one of my all-time favorites, and I probably use it

  The Curious Case for Orange and Green: Do you believe, as I do, that colors talk to each other? How they verbalize is a mystery, but they somehow manage to impact all those that they colorfully engage with. In the curious case of orange and green, nature is boastfully proud to provide these two visually valuable colors in beaucoup creations. For fun sake, I'm going to mention only one of nature's masterpieces, and that would be the pumpkin. Often seen as primarily orange. Many proudly display stripes of various hues of the alluring and ever present in nature color...