The Spark & The Art

TheSparkAndTheArt.com/115 – Lorraine Harley has been active in arts and other creative pursuits for her whole life but she says it’s only recently that she’s really recognizing her talents for what they are. We talk about how her ‘jack-of-all-trades’ approach to creative work is an asset because she has a lot of fun with many different types of projects and mediums.

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Concours D’art Oratoire - http://ab.cpf.ca/actvities/youth-activities/concours-dart-oratoire/

JJ Johnston - http://www.thesparkandtheart.com/6
 

TheSparkAndTheArt.com/114 –
I’m your host Tucker and this week is a dream I had about 8 years ago.

I'm fairly certain that it was in The War Of Art where author Steven Pressfield said that dreams, especially those that you wake from with vivid clarity, are there for you to learn from. They are your subconscious share sharing wisdom with you. They are they are meant to be held within you so you can internalize and act on the message. So, you aren't meant to share dreams with others until the meaning has been accepted by yourself - or something like that. I can't find the part of the book where he talks about it. So maybe it's a different book.

TheSparkAndTheArt.com/113 – A personal graphic novel about birthmarks and immigration and a blog to inspire kids to use their talents in drawing to keep them creative. Lana Lê.

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Lana Lê - http://lana-le.com/

Persepolis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_(comics)

Maus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus

Raina Telgemeier - http://goraina.com/books_smile.html

CeCe Bell - https://cecebell.wordpress.com/

TheSparkAndTheArt.com/112 – idea & execution

TheSparkAndTheArt.com/111 – Whitney and I talk about her starting out in computer sciences - and hating it - loving her writing major and how she stumbled on a course for Human Computer Interaction which lead her to her first user experience position. While the whole conversation is fantastic, I think my favourite part is the last 5 minutes where Whitney builds on how curiosity and creativity work together.

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Whitney Hess - https://whitneyhess.com/

Whitney Hess Twitter - https://twitter.com/whitneyhess

TheSparkAndTheArt.com/110 – Eva Hesse was a sculptor and ran into a bout of creative block and wrote to Sol for some advice. I’ve never read Eva’s letter but I feel I can get a gist of what she was saying. She was planning what she was going to do to get out of her creative block. She was thinking about how should could get passed her creative block.

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Sol LeWitt’s Letter - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/eva-hesse-letters-sol-lewitt_us_562f79ede4b00aa54a4b18d8

Sol LeWitt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_LeWitt

Eva Hesse - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Hesse

Inspiration comes from the work - http://www.songstuckerwrote.com/podcast/57-inspiration-comes-from-the-work
 

TheSparkAndTheArt.com/109 – Dancer, teacher and bloom doodler Michelle Johnson. We talk about how she used drawing to help her through a difficult time while recuperating from a difficult surgery and how through the sharing of her images with her friends it lead to her creating and self-publishing a colouring book.

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Michelle Johnson on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/doodledblooms/
DoodledBlooms - https://www.amazon.ca/Doodled-Blooms-Coloring-Fantastical-Everyone/dp/152384440X
Texas Lutheran University - http://www.tlu.edu/
You’re So Crafty - http://youresocrafty.com/

TheSparkAndTheArt.com/108 – this episode we talk about the three reasons to do anything. Acheivement, Acclaim and the Almighty Dollar.
 

TheSparkAndTheArt.com/107 – In today's chat we talk to comic artist and illustrator Scott Kowalchuk. We talk about a lot of things including where he started and what he did to pitch his very first comic to the comic publisher image comics. It wasn't just a simple idea with a few sketches it was finished books. We also talk about the reason he is being much more calculated about the publishers he does approach and being very honest with himself about the projects he's choosing in the future.

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Scott Kowalchuk - http://scottkowalchuk.com/

Scott Kowalchuk - http://scottkowalchuk.blogspot.ca/

The Intrepids - http://scottkowalchuk.blogspot.ca/search/label/intrepids

Image Comics - https://imagecomics.com

Fort MacMurray - http://www.fortmcmurraytourism.com/

Fort McMurray Fire - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/alberta/the-fort-mcmurray-disaster-read-the-latest-weekend/article29930041/

ACAD - https://acad.ca/

Batman ’66 - http://scottkowalchuk.blogspot.ca/search/label/batman

Michel Fiffe, Copra Comic - http://michelfiffe.com/

Bruce Campbell - If Chins Could Kill - https://www.amazon.ca/If-Chins-Could-Kill-Confessions/dp/0312291450

Eckhart Tolle - https://www.eckharttolle.com/

The Power of Now - https://www.eckharttollenow.com/store/item/10/The-Power-of-Now--Paperback-

TheSparkAndTheArt.com/106 – It reminded me of the conversation I had with author Sean Williams In episode 62 about how getting ideas out was like a tube of toothpaste where it's easier to get out when the dry crusty bits are gone from the end and you can get that flow back. It wasn't a really good analogy then and I think I've done it even less justice this time around.