JFlah's Blunders

Paint and Pj's painting for this year. Haven't decided if I'm going to add text or not. Here's a close up of the cutie snowman. Saw this great article on Muddy Colors . I've come across this trouble so often that I wonder why even I have started to devalue my own work. Now I know that part of the reason that it happens to me with the regularity that it does is because I'm in a "cul-de-sac" design career - and to exasperate the problem, I work full time at a non-profit where the norm is that people volunteer their time/talents. "Photo by JS Choi of he-who-will-not-be-named doing his brilliant thing at Illuxcon. So perfect and hilarious." Picture and quote from Muddy Colors Blog This video perfectly illustrates what it would be like for someone to try to treat other businesses and professionals like many clients try to treat artists and designers. And I highly recommend that you read the whole article at Muddy Co...

Found an article in a strange round about way after finding out that the Dan Stevers video we've purchased at work to supplement our Christmas program graphics was actually animated by Jason Watson . On Jason's blog he's written several great articles, one of which is a post about how to motivate creatives . I'm with him on each one of the points he makes and wish that administrators and decision makers were more aware of the truths represented within that article. The three key points of the article are: Provide clear/decisive direction to your creative partner. Make your creative partner a part of the creative planning process. Pay your creative well. Jason fleshes these points out in a logical and thoughtful way that is kind to both the creatives and their employers and I very much recommend it to you. I haven't read the other articles he's got on his blog, though I plan to over the next several days, as those look instructive and well thought o...

Jake Parker's idea of the world art drop day sounds like something I'm definitely interested in. I did the crochet heart drop thing and that was fun, but this sounds like even more fun - a scavenger hunt kind of thing. I'm putting it on my calendar  and will be dropping a piece or two of art for this first annual World Art Drop Day on Tue, Sep 2. Keep an eye out...