There was a book written a very long time ago called, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Having studied Nuerology, I have always been fascinated with the marriage of spacial awareness and cognition, when the auditory and other aspects of brain function give way to developed areas of the brain an artist needs, and, an accountant seldom considers. That spacial place where fixing hurt marines, and jumping off the milk truck in second grade occupy the same room so to speak.
Karin Taylor, about 1 month ago
Hi Jay, this is sooo interesting…thank you!
lynzart, about 1 month ago
Hi Jay, I have that book actually. And guess what? I am an Artist AND and Accountant, so go figure! :) Guess which job I love the best? Guess?!
Jay Michelsen, about 1 month ago
Interesting isn’t it Lyn. I studied medicine and work in law, figuring I would starve to death being an artist. Now I’m beginning to wonder if I made the right choices. Sometimes, looking back, it wasn’t that I was running to those other careers, but running away from the fear I would be unsuccessful in the thing I loved most-art.
lynzart, about 1 month ago
Well, you’ve just expressed my exact sentiments. I loved art from an early age, but never considered it as a career as I was pretty sure it would never pay the bills. And like you, now I wonder whether that was the right choice, and sometimes wish I had been brave enough to follow my dream. But then, maybe that would have changed the way I view my art – it might have become just a “job” instead of a passion….
Jay Michelsen in reply to lynzart’s comment, about 1 month ago
Very insightful. I couldn’t agree more, considering such a framework of thinking.
DarlaReeves, about 1 month ago
I can relate to that! I worked at one dead-end job after another because I was afraid to try art as a career. I am trying to get over those insecurities now, but it’s hard when they have been in the back of my mind for so many years!
Jay Michelsen in reply to DarlaReeves’s comment, about 1 month ago
I understand what you mean. I grew up in a rural working class family, that looked at art as a pass-time but not a serious or honest career. Working hard was an honest career and art was viewed with some suspicion.
DarlaReeves, about 1 month ago
Yes! I was a “dreamer who needed to get a real job”.
Jay Michelsen, about 1 month ago
Well. we’re right where we’re supposed to be.
Nancy Vice, about 1 month ago
I wanted to give my aunt a present when i was 13 yrs old, so i bought a paint by number art set and painted her a picture, it was a farm scene if my memory serves me right, and to her dying day she believed i painted it by scratch, even after telling her it was a number paint. I think she had more confidence in me than i did :)
Jay Michelsen, about 1 month ago
Grandmothers have such a sweet and gentle way about getting the point of truth across. You could do this if you wanted to I think was her message.