Write it down.

I really encourage all Artists to feed your brain, for out of it comes great ideas, clarity of thought, inspiration, imagination and these are the requirements that you need to build a dynamic Art business.

Read books, watch thought provoking lectures and tutorials, listen to audio books, fill your mind with positive input that will inspire you and cause you to grow as an Artist and a person.

When you read, watch a movie, hear a wonderful song, listen to a tutorial, take notes, always be looking for lines and ideas, thoughts that you can use in describing and story telling your paintings. Sometimes you will be talking to someone and they will say something that you think, I can use that, write it down.

If you don’t write it down you will lose it.

Get a note book so you can write down ideas and thoughts that jump into your mind, I do not trust my memory so I always take notes and it amazes me as I read back over my journals from years ago how thoughts and ideas I wrote down so long ago now can be the basis of a new blog.

I love the line I read in a Tom Clancy book, “ If it is not written down, it was ever said.”

That so challenged me about all the ideas and thoughts that I thought I would remember and I did not, now they are lost to me forever.

I now keep lots of notes in my journal and refer to them often in my writing and story telling.

Do not trust your memory, write it down and then you will always have it to inspire you.