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Day #5 of ‘Back to School’ week at The Napkin Dad Daily
I love doing home improvement project, but one of the down sides of doing them is that I am an amateur. I don’t have 20 years experience building fences or putting up guttering or cleaning carburators on lawn mowers (all things I have done this summer). I am learning as I go. I try to follow directions. but I can’t know all what I need to know to make the job absolutely perfect because I don’t have the education of the trade. I might know some secrets a guy a Lowe’s tells me, but they hardly ever are where I have my problems. I have my problems in the average details of doing the work.
The same is true in non-manual labor fields. Whether you are studying Neuroscience and have to write five papers or studying Apparel Design and have to make five garments, the knowledge of the trade comes from the doing everyday.
There is a well known quote, I think by the artist Phillip Pearlstein, that says ‘if you want to be an artist, first find a studio and paint 10 hours a day every day for 7 years, then decide if that is what you want to do.’ Exaggerated as that is, it has a kernal of truth to it. The knowing is in the doing.
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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No matter your work you have to do the hard detail work if you want to be considered a professional. You have to be meticulous and thorough. You have to think about entire projects, plan things out and work to make it happen. Hoping is fine, dreaming is fine, wishing is fine. But none of those will create your work for you, none will create your destiny. Only work and perseverance will do that.
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily blog.
Quote by Garson Kanin, 1912-1999, American writer and director
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What, no napkin? Circumstances this weekend left me without my markers and napkins and I just didn’t plan well enough in advance, sorry about that. But I thought I would take advantage to show you another side of me.
Did you know I don’t just draw napkins? I am a full time artist and photographer as well. The screenshot here is of my website. You can go there and check out my portfolios in personal portraits, business portraits, events and occasions, couples, etc. In addition you can read up a bit about me and my background, exhibition record, etc. And you can BUY stuff too!
Contact me if you would like to use my services, are interested in purchasing a framed photo or drawing (including the napkins) or want me to travel to some exotic locale to give a lecture on creativity and imagination or something equally interesting.
