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The Studio as Laboratory: Treating Your Creative Practice Like an Ongoing Experiment
There's a trap a lot of us fall into before we ever pick up a brush, a pencil, a chisel, or a camera: researching the "right" way to do something until the research itself becomes the whole activity. It feels productive. It even feels like progress. But at some point, reading about technique stops teaching you anything a blank page or an empty canvas couldn't teach you faster — and a lot more honestly. I've come to think the fix isn't trying harder to get it right. It's chang

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Sep 114 min read


Are Mental Models for Artists?
Yes! Mental models —those powerful thinking frameworks used by top performers in business, academia, investment titans and science...

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Jul 26, 20254 min read


Field Guide to Outdoor Painting in the Pocono Mountains
Long ago, seeds for several book ideas were planted in my mind. Admittedly this was not one of them but about eight months ago I started...

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Jul 3, 20252 min read