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YouTube Inspiration
You can take your oil painting skills to the next level by joining the online art school, where you can access full length oil painting tutorials and learn tips and techniques to improve your artwork.
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How to Paint an Autumn Tree
How to Paint a Thatched Cottage
How to Paint a Rose
How To Paint A Horse
How to Paint Mountains
How To Paint An Ocean Wave
Make Good Art
Neil Gaiman commencement speech at the University of Arts in 2012 is very inspirational – and funny. The video has over half a million views on Youtube and over 8000 likes. It’s a must watch for all artists!! Some wise advice can be gleaned from this video:
- ”When you start out in a career in the arts, you have no idea what you are doing.”
- ”If you have an idea what you are put here to do, then just go and do that”
- ”When you start out, you have to deal with the problems of failure – you have to be thick skinned – to learn that not every project will survive.”
- Don’t create art just for the money. If you can’t sell it, then you don’t have anything. If you do work you are proud of, and still don’t sell it, at least you have the art. (paraphrased)
- See also the shorter version of this speech by Zen Pencils: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tdAAFC8HHs
Terra Sacra Time Lapses
This one is a must watch for all you nature artists – and especially cloud lovers! This video shows beautiful time lapse presentations of landscapes and places around the world. See the effect of changing light on landscapes.
Nike asked Casey Neistat to create a movie about the meaning behind the phrase “Make it Count”. But instead of filming a commercial, which Nike had hired him to do, Casey decided to instead make a film about travelling the world. In the video, Casey and his friend Max travel to 13 countries in 10 days – a total of 34,000 miles.
I love watching the video occasionally, but I don’t have that kind of cash to travel around the world. The meaning I get from the video is to make every moment count in my own life – where I am. I try to use every moment I have in a productive manner (even if I’m just relaxing and watching Youtube videos). The collection of quotes in the video are also very inspiring!
Life is Short
The Holstee Manifesto – Lifecycle video is meant as inspiration to live a full life, full of community, creativity, intention and passion. Even though it’s about biking, this video motivates me every time I watch it.
”This is your life, do what you love, do it often.” – find this and other tidbits of inspiration in this video.
