Art and Motivation

The cool breeze swept across the plains causing the golden brown grass to sway back and forth.  Small patches of greenery form themselves in the distance and in each patch stands a tall dead tree.  The patches make the plains look like a brown sea littered with the remains of old wooden ships that are grounded and left to rot.  The reason for all the trees dying remains a mystery, and that is why many artists, biologists, and botanists are here.  They all want to experience or soak in the mysterious phenomenon.

It is noon and the sun is beating down on Sam’s head.  The thirty-something male is staring over the bluff, slouching in his chair and enjoying an unusually cool day.  Sam is wearing long sleeves and jeans.  His canvas is sitting on an easel in front of him.  The stare on Sam’s face and the canvas are both blank, and he wonders if he is worthy of painting.  He is not sure he can do the landscape any justice by painting it.

Casting doubts, Sam thinks to himself.   Am I good enough? I think I will play video games instead.

Sam puts down the rough sketch that is in his lap, takes out a game pad and loses track of time.  The title of the game is Monsters and Mayhem, in which Sam has a character that fights monsters and levels up.  It is somewhat a role-playing game.  In reality his opponent is not the creature in the game; his true opponent is fear and procrastination.

The canvas remains blank.

Beau Gauthreaux  beau@artandmotivation.com

I apologize that I have not put up my Sunday post as of yet, but I am working on something and It should be available soon.  Thank you for being patient.

Fear of action.  Fear of results.  Fear of showing your art and never getting started.  Why some people never show their art, or never finish. Read the rest of this entry »

What happens when you drink too much coffee, or when your coffee tries to drink you.

Painted this one today in photoshop.  Crits are welcome.

Thanks,

Beau Gauthreaux beau@artandmotivation.com

Here is most of the landscape and surreal art that I have done so far this year.  Only one is done in gouache.  The rest are digital.  Can you guess which one is gouache?

Thanks,

Beau Gauthreaux

beau@artandmotivation.com

I mentioned this before but I believe if you can simplify, or trim something down without taking away the authenticity of it or breaking it, you should.  I’m trying to live as simple and as genuine as I can.  That leads me to this decision concerning my blogs and my internet identity, I am doing away with randomtandom.com.  From here on out everything about me is going to be artandmotivation.com.  You may see the author’s name “Beau Gauthreaux” attached to vcasts, podcasts, artwork and written items but art and motivation is pretty much the focus of my brand.  This includes my twitter ID, which I reserved already.  twitter.com/artmotivation  I will be consolidation all my blog posts here including all art work that I have posted in the past.  I feel really good about this decision and think it is the right thing to do.

I end this post with one of my favorite gouache paintings that I had posted on randomtandom.com  Later tonight or tomorrow I will do an art dump of all the works that I had posted there and other blogs.  I will also be adding a link to my deviantart gallery.

Thanks,

This is simply audio taken from the video I did earlier.  It’s for those that prefer to listen.

Thanks, Beau Gauthreaux

beau@artandmotivation.com

Vcast2 which will also soon be podcast2 once I export the audio for those that prefer to listen than watch.  I have also included the transcript in this post.  This is about motivational material and why short is better.

Transcript.

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Here is the vcast follow up for my previous podcast I did earlier in the week.  I wanted to drive a point I was trying to make further.

With that said I believe I am getting better at podcasting, vcasting, and blogwriting.  I will probably look back a year from now and realize what a noob I was.

Since I been focusing all week on this technical stuff  I am going to spend some time getting a new painting out.

Quitting A Habit

Thanks,

beau@artandmotivation.com

What motivates you to produce art.

  Here it is Finally!  Episode 1.  The first Art and Motivation podcast.  I have attached the transcript from the show after the break.  I hope you enjoy.

Focus

Beau

beau@artandmotivation.com

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