Don’t Believe Your Own Thoughts: What Can An Artist Learn From Mark Twain?

“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”          -Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910) It’s been estimated by psychologists that during the course of a normal day the human brain will produce around 60,000 thoughts.  And for some reason that the scientists [...]

Gary Bolyer’s 5 Most Inspirational Art Blogs of All Time

Okay, so you want to be inspired? You want to feel something don’t you? You want to feel it in your bones? Then you must read these 5 inspirational art blogs that I have written. If you don’t know what I’ve been writing about lately, then you are just yesterday’s leftover tuna fish.  I’ll see [...]

Do You Have a Bucket List?

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~Pablo Picasso As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do. ~Zachary Scott To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.            ~William James A few years back, Jack [...]

The 7 Deadly Sins of Artists

If you are an artist, the bad news is you have millions of competitors. The good news is most of them suck. The same problems come up again and again, keeping artists from building a dynamic body of work and a loyal following.  So how about you? Do you commit one of these seven deadly [...]

Don’t Be Fickle. Don’t Change Directions

America is facing some of its greatest challenges ever.  The America that we have today is much different from the America that I knew as a boy. I think that one of the biggest problems facing Americans today is that we’ve become a very fickle people.  If the wind blows this way, we go this way.  If the wind blows [...]

Beauty only comes by grace…

Someone once told me that beauty only comes by grace. So it came to be that I stood with my sister in the presence of grace in the form of beauty, in the form of art, in the form of paintings that hung in long hallways that echoed as we spoke. They were seascape paintings, images of [...]

Top 3 Ways to Boost Creativity

Have you ever been in a creative slump?  Writers, of course, call this writer’s block.  But painters and artists of all kinds can find themselves in a creative void.   How many times have you stood in front of a blank white canvas and not been able to get started?  Trust me, it happens to everyone. [...]