Posts by Nicholas Wilton

When you make a mediocre painting bigger it just gets more mediocre. I sure know this feeling and I don’t like it. However when you make something powerful AND it happens to be bigger then it can become breathtaking. Making art bigger than ourselves can be challenging. But it doesn’t have to be. Here are…

Michelangelo’s “David”   I think you know when something you have made surpasses Good and becomes Great. I know I do. It feels wonderful. Unfortunately, this doesn’t happen all the time. How can you shift your work from Good to Great more often? The answer is very simple: Just say NO! to Good. Literally, say…

Detail from “Arcade” by Nicholas Wilton   People desire art because it makes them feel alive. Like leaving a monotonous office job for a vacation, Art gives people a new, fresh experience that they crave. The Art that we notice, talk about and dream of does this really, really well. The primary reason is because…

“Tomboy” by Nicholas Wilton.   When someone is about to purchase your art they always look at it for a long time. They also look at the small white tag on the wall next to the art to see the title. They are looking for connection with your art. How the work looks offers the…

The artist, Nicholas Wilton, with his dog, Maisy.   You loved how everything was going, you are on top of the world and then suddenly everything changes. You just went too far. If you had just stopped earlier….  Stopping is a very hard thing to do. This always comes up in the ArtLife Workshops.  Here…

Artwork by Joel Nakamura. http://www.joelnakamura.com/   Sometimes creating something new is just downright scary. Many people avoid doing things that haven’t been done before. The only problem is that if you are a “creative,” like me, then this is ultimately not really an option. Creatives, plain and simple, make stuff. I often feel a tinge…