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Painting at night

Posted on by philipdodson

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There are many choices in life and there are no right or wrong answers, as apart from when it hurts others, the choices we make and what that outcome looks like to us, is all that matters.

We often think far too much about what are going to do or not. Whether to create something or not. Whether to share something with others, or to leave it uncreated.

Last night at midnight, we drove up a track to a view point in the middle of nowhere in Fuerteventura Spain, and we choose to create different effects night painting using luminous juggling balls and long exposure photography.

The results were amazing, and when it was my turn, I decided to create a happy face, to reflect upon one of the best choices I’ve made in a long time, to come to this coworking camp in Fuerteventura organised by Copass.

Often in my life I have said ‘I’ll do that next time, when I’m less busy’ or some other excuse, as ‘less busy’ is an excuse and it never happens.

Choose night painting, choose happiness and share your creations.

Marvel-ous new skills

Posted on by philipdodson

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I blogged about this recently. We are told that you get to a point in life, where you are too old to learn new things. However, if you don’t try, you’ll never know.

I have committed, as part of my rituals of success that I set myself for each day and some weekly, to learn a new skill once a week.

If successful, that will be 52 new skills I will have enriched my life with over the course of a year.

Part of the fun will be coming up with new skills each week to learn, and I will aim to get bolder each week.

This week I have been learning a new drawing skill. I love art, and for much of my adult life I have not done art. It was one of those things, that fuelled with the brainwashing of our homogenised/industrialised world society, I had told myself was not important, and I should be focussing on more important things.

Since I have been doing more art again, I have not only become happier, more chilled and guess what? more creative too.

So, I have been learning how to draw people, cartoon style and comic style. I have previously found this very hard, well mainly because I had told myself it was hard and I can’t. Gradually this week I have been getting better and better.

Not quite Marvel standards, yet.