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Selfless Leadership
There’s a big difference between positional leadership and actual leadership. Positional leadership demands followers because of a title. Real leadership just leads through a myriad of key leadership qualities (check out...
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Don’t Wind Up In A Small Mountain-Town ER! Go With Your Gut!
You may remember the series of funny Direct TV spots that ran this year tracing a cable users small reaction to a frustrating cable TV event that leads to a large scale...
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Elements of Art: Form
Continuing in our series The Elements and Principles of Art, up next is form. When an artist uses form, he or she uses techniques to show 3 dimensionality (either real or perceived). A...
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S.M.A.R.T. Creative Career Goals, Part 2
This post is an excerpt from chapter 18 of my book Calling All Artists. November is the perfect time to start planning goals for the next year! In part 1, I shared...
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S.M.A.R.T. Creative Career Goals, Part 1
This post is an excerpt from chapter 18 of my book Calling All Artists. As we approach the end of the year, I thought it would be appropriate to start thinking...
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Elements of Art: Shape
Early in my animation career, I heard visual development artists and art directors mention shape language. Somewhat baffled and intrigued by this term, I started looking into it. I had learned about artistic...
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Elements of Art: Line
In my Art Direction 101 post I listed the 7 Elements and 7 Principles of Art. I want to write a post on each of them to explain their role in art direction...
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5 Keys to Building a Rock Solid Creative KidMin Team
I’ve had the privilege of working with many great churches of all sizes and many denominations through our work at Timbuktoons and we’ve worked hand-in-hand with creative KidMin teams to...
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Art Direction 101: The Elements and Principles of Art
Years ago I taught a Visual Story Telling workshop at a youth performing arts camp after reading Bruce Block’s “The Visual Story” which is an industry standard art direction book for film...
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3 “Must-Reads” for Every Artist
I recommended Creativity Inc., by Disney/Pixar’s Ed Catmull in a recent post. On the heals of finishing that book I read 2 more books that go hand-in-hand with each other and were...
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