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A 12 Week Course to Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self

Five weeks ago, I began working through the book The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron. I made a solid commitment to myself to complete the 12 week course.  As spirituality is between each person and their [...]

Inspiration Comes from a Child – What’s New?

So just a moment ago I watched the YouTube Video series Art Girl Sophia present her interview with dead artist Salvador Dali. The video, though it is quirky and humorous, touched me for several reasons:

1. I am one of those people that believe that people would free themselves and be much happier if [...]

A Switch in Our Outlook

Here at Cotton Studios, we have decided to make a concerted effort to use our site as a way to help and inspire other artists.

Starting today, follow us on Twitter!  WE will offer creative ideas each day.  Our intention is that these ideas will inspire artists to approach their sketchbooks without the dread [...]

Elf Yourself 2008 – Upping the Anty

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

ElfYourself by OfficeMax and JibJab, was all the craze last year.  Everyone was elfing themselves and their family members to celebrate the season. Plus, it is just darn funny!

This year, these guys have gone above and beyond to make the elfing experience even more customizable.  You can now upload [...]

The Crosbie

Back in my SCAD days (that’s Savannah College of Art and Design for anyone who is not in the know), Sari Gunderson was in charge of the Working Studio.  Working Studio was this amazing place where anything you could dream of could be brought to life, and Sari was the master of the [...]

Season’s Greetings – Cards from the White House

Every year the President and First Lady send out a Christmas card to loads of very important people, friends and family.  I am certain that being chosen as the artist for these cards must be a highlight in an artist’s career.

Season’s Greetings from the White House is an article from the white house [...]

Fast Idea Generation

As an artist and designer constantly under the gun to come up with new exciting ideas and concepts, some days can really get you down as your creative engine sputters under the pressures.

Ken Hudson has written a book entitled The Idea Accelerator.  Here Thinkinghow.com has reviewed the book and offers a quick video [...]

Daily Heller by Steven Heller

If you have never heard of Steven Heller, you may be living under a rock.  Steven Heller has been very influential to the illustration and design industry for many years.  Now Steven Heller has a daily blog through Print Magazine sharing his thoughts and insights on design and illustration [...]

Design Gangsta

For those of us that are designers, art directors, and anyone else that knows print, Kyle Webster offers a very humorous promotional piece of which we should all be jealous. This video is a humorous, yet fact filled depiction of who Webster is as an artist. A resume, if you will, [...]

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