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GOAL - With any business, a year in review is just good practice.  Top executives do this exercise regularly, so how about artists? For my own benefit, I wrote down the top highlights from my art career this year, along with items I could improve and work towards in 2023.   {Remember vantage point is everything.  If you are just starting off in the art world or had a rough year, remembers everything ebbs and flows and it has taken me 10 years to get here.  If you are already a professional or highly accomplished business person - I am on my own path [...]

Have you heard of the artist Mary Blair?  I had not either, until watching a documentary on Walt Disney.  As it turns out Mary Blair was one of Walt Disney's favorite artists!     Here is a little bit about Mary Blair, according to illustrationhistory.org: Mary Blair learned her craft at The Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles in the mid-1930s. She joined The Walt Disney Company in 1940 where she created concept paintings for projects related to Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941), and The Lady and the Tramp (1955).   She developed a distinct look to her concept art by using vivid colors from gouache and tempera to create swirling, highly imaginative images that influenced many of Disney's feature films [...]