Go see Dave’s Eagles on the TGO Photo Club page – Remarkable.

  • Then read on below.

Forget the last quarter – Think about the whole game – I was reading a book titled “Art Before Breakfast.”  by Danny Gregory. Here is some of my thoughts from the book:

Creativity isn’t a luxury. It’s the essence of life. It’s what distinguishes us from the bugs. And it’s why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer. 

 And that’s what you need to do to make the most of your life, every day of it. To be inventive, open, flexible. To have perspective on what matters to you. To deal with change without being overwhelmed. And that’s what creativity offers you.

Art is a way of helping make creativity become a habit that fits ALL ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE.   It doesn’t mean you have to be a full-time artist. It doesn’t mean you need lots of training or supplies. Or a lot of time. 

All you need to do is play a little.  Do it while waiting for a commercial to end, or waiting in a dentists waiting-room – take out a pen and paper and sketch.

Or, if you are retired like me – create just for fun.  Take an hour in the morning with your I pad, a photo or so from you iPhone and play with PhotoShop. Here are several days worth of my playing around:

I took quick snapshot of a duck outside Glorias Art Club building in Titusville, FL – Just as snapped on my I phone.

Next I removed all but head and breast of the duck – My he looks like a bottle to me. Try to use your creative thoughts and see a bottle. Ha Ha

Snapped this photo to ask Gloria which bottle she wanted me to buy – of course I added the duck and the selfie that I put on the label – just for fun – Creatively playing around  – just for fun

Lookin down our street. – A space shot on a cloudy day – again my iPhone and a image of what happens when the sonic boom arrives – Ha Ha

Dave was telling me of what happens to the song bird population when we humans kill off all the bugs, – so I looked for bird photos in my library of iPhone photos -with the bird photo I decided to take a close-up of a flower I saw while biking last week and create an abstract art piece – Why? – ’cause I wanted to for fun.

Made an abstract as a background for the ladybug – Just for fun

As you swing thru life – Create something art just for fun – before breakfast if you can. – That is what the book says you should do.