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New episode of Creators Chat is live now!

Got a question for Creators.Chat? You can now ask anything you’d like about creating, life, or whatever right here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaYHhMJ6o0DJZ6Gl4iRB3X-iV5fDDo-zLZwSWVx0z2lUl8Hg/viewform

New episode coming tomorrow!

Doing a live Art Camp critique starting in about 5 minutes. Come learn to paint better clouds and mountains.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KjIk2buafAw

Highly recommend reading Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. It’s an enlightening look into the extremely varied lives that facilitated the creation of so much great work.

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Can’t show my painting but look at these pretty colors. Dioxazine purple is a life saver (winsor violet, to be more precise).

The River of Dreams

thesinofman.com/the-river-of-dreams/

Happiness is new brushes.

Self-Assembler

Transguild Promenade

Plateau

I’m doing an Art Camp critique starting in 10 minutes and you can pop in and watch even if you’re not part of the course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8037RjVxK9g

Jeskai Barricade

Cleansing Nova proofs are here–will ship out orders on Monday. Order today: https://noahbradley.com/collections/artist-proofs

Teach Me the Angel’s Song

That Memory Cannot Follow

My hotel just tried to put a $3600 security deposit hold on my card.

Clearly I was planning to burn everything down.

It’s been a damn good honeymoon. Buuuut now we’re both itching to get back to work.

Don’t Go to Art School https://noahbradley.com/blogs/blog/dont-go-to-art-school

Lonely Sandbar

Painted in Costa Rica, cause what better place to make something like this.

creators.chat #4 on fans, how to get them, and what to do with them. https://youtube.com/watch?v=kZkPqfgJDtE

10 Books Every Artist Must Read – https://noahbradley.com/blogs/blog/10-books-every-artist-must-read

Sacred Foundry

Of These One and All

The Winged People

Witch doctor sketch.

Like cool art stuff? Then come say hi to me at #GPRichmond at the end of the month.

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I still like this sketch and should finish it sometime.

Kauai is great.

She is Our End

The Peaceful

With Wandering Steps and Slow

Idylls of Love

One of the most transformative, enlightening books I’ve read this year: Man’s Search for Meaning. https://amzn.to/2OGllwO

So proud of the rock studies everybody’s been doing in Art Camp. Love seeing things click for people.

I have the best wife.

One of the best campsites I’ve ever gotten to enjoy.

Not unrelated: there’s no internet connection there.

Creators Chat #6, on establishing healthy, productive work/life balance: https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ONXbLYutsno

One last time: struggle is not suffering. It’s working hard.

You really think I’d be advocating suffering while I’m sitting in Hawaii? Come on.

It’s pathetic that it’s somehow a controversial opinion to encourage hard work.

The literal first definition of the word “struggle”: to work hard to do something.

I don’t give a shit if you want to misinterpret that into misery or depression or whatever. You’re wrong.

Hard work is good.

Breaks are great, but struggle creates true, lasting, meaningful fulfillment.

Beach camping with the ever-gorgeous @ImRachelBradley

I’m gonna be at #GPRichmond next month so come on by and get stuff signed and say hi.

1. Get pretty good at art.

2. Find an awesome, hot wife.

3. ???

Honeymoon with my honey.

Every Inclination of the Human Heart

https://noahbradley.com/products/every-inclination-of-the-human-heart

Wrote 1600 words today on howtobeacreator.com

It’s gonna be a good book.

To Feel the Edge of Heaven

thesinofman.com/to-feel-the-edge-of-heaven/

Their Mournful Tones

https://noahbradley.com/products/their-mournful-tones

In writing a book of advice I struggle not to repeat this too often: just get on with it already.

Anyone interested in a non-Magic original piece? I have a Tarzan piece, 20×30″, oils on board. Shoot me an offer at noah@noahbradley.com if you are. Looking for about $2k for it.

Masculinity is not toxic. Feminity is not shameful.

Lazy Sunday experiments.

Our Grasp of Heaven

https://noahbradley.com/products/our-grasp-of-heaven

Accepting personal responsibility is the first step toward power.

History of Benalia

https://noahbradley.com/products/history-of-benalia

Maybe being happy and treating people well will have more impact than your Twitter rants and retweets.

On the back of a History of Benalia artist proof. Wanted to do some trippy stained glass.

So I now have at least 4 new Magic oil paintings I’ll be showing off next year. 🙂

I don’t get nearly enough opportunities to sketch without expectations. So I thought today would be a good day to do just that.

Sketch on the back of a Breeding Pool proof.

Episode 6 of creators.chat is now up. We talk all about work/life balance:

Thanks for all of the good history/biography suggestions yesterday. I think those will keep me busy for a good while.

Do you have a favorite biographical or historical book?

When you start to think of it, any day that you aren’t being chlorine gassed is really a quite good day.

Remedying my shameful ignorance of WWI while finishing this painting by listening to A World Undone. Giving me a greater appreciation for what folks went through back then.

https://amzn.to/2uoXN6w

Get to work.

Maybe whinging doesn’t actually improve your situation.

Did a live Creators Chat with @ImRachelBradley just now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTlo2xqaX7E

Art Camp students are great. 🙂

Alternate sketch for my Volcanic Island

One of my early L5R pieces from 2010. Sorta the first professional gig I received.

Bastion of the Sun

https://noahbradley.com/products/bastion-of-the-sun

Expectation is the invitation to disappointment.

The Last Whisper

The plein air piece that sparked my love of landscape painting. From the summer of 2009.

There’s still time to get in on the first critique for Art Camp 3 on Wednesday! Sign up today at artcamp.com

For All I Have Done

A quick video of a landscape value study for Art Camp 3. Painting took about 40~ minutes.

Taking a break from working on Magic stuff to record a little value study for Art Camp folks.

I think people would be a lot happier if they focused a little more on being human.

Listening to a biography on Leonardo is making me feel like I’m incredibly good at completing things.

Forgotten Cave. Looking to sell this. Oils on canvas, taking offers at noah@noahbradley.com

Shipping artist proof orders today (unless you ordered sketches or Cleansing Nova proofs). <3

We’re gonna try to do some of the creators.chat episodes live.

I have a good wife.

Extraplanar Lens

Artist proofs still available here: https://noahbradley.com/collections/artist-proofs

Sunbond

Karn’s Temporal Sundering

https://noahbradley.com/products/karns-temporal-sundering

Quick value study to kick off my morning.

Still time for y’all to join artcamp.com and get in on the fun. 🙂

You know who likes fireworks?

Urza.

Want to learn how to build a better fan base? We can show you how. <3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZkPqfgJDtE

The last (and kinda the only good) sketch from today’s stream.

Thanks to everyone who joined in and asked questions and hung out. 🙂

Thanks to everyone who joined our stream. <3 You can (re)watch the whole stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX3KyLID6Xk

No, your art doesn’t deserve attention. You have to earn that.

Still live with @ImRachelBradley, doing sketches and talking about art stuff. Come hang out with us.

Aaaaaaand we’re going live! I’ll be sketching and answering questions for the next couple hours right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX3KyLID6Xk

1 hour. :O

Episode #4 of Creators Chat is up! @ImRachelBradley and I talk about fans, how to get them, and what to do with them.