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"Cool Liquid Light" by jeffery sparks 12x20 oil This blog begins in one direction, and then leads ultimately to another point of discussion. They are intrinsic. A self-taught artist is never quite self-taught. We have help along the way, and need a lot of it along the way. To do otherwise would mean we are reinventing the wheel, every day, and for some of us it may be more like this. However, I have found that most self-taught artists are learning their skills in a piece-work fashion, taking the knowledge as it is found and grooming it into our lives. I find that I [...]

I begin this blog with the last blog in mind.  For me, a key insight into life, (that life of the ARTIST which informs my IDENTITY), came by way of Ethics. In my last blog, I referred to a sort of inspiration that came out of the early monastic movement in Christendom, and this now dovetails into a look at Ethics. In Ethics, everything revolves around the making of "good" choices. "Good" is a term we use so much tht the meaning is often vague, (ie., "The film was good"). A "good" is a term used in Ethics to denote an assigned value [...]