“It Is Not Easy! The right and left brain connection in digital artists”

Creating art digitally requires prowess, tenacity and skill. We use the right sides of our brain as the visual processor and the left as the technical hub or logic center. Artfully (pun intended) we meld these brain characteristics together to function as technology based artists. We depend on the creative right brain for inspiration, emotion, memory, color formulation, and rely heavily on the left side of our brains for order, higher learning and technical ability. It is undoubtedly a unique combination.

Electronically Registering Your Copyright in the US.

Open your web browser and visit www.copyright.gov Just so you know, if you go to the www.copyright.com site you’ll not end up at the Copyright Office, but at a commercial site trying to sell you something. So make sure you’re at the .gov site.

The government site has a lot of good information on the homepage, however, actually registering your work can be a bit cumbersome and clunky at first. After the initial process is complete, you’ll find the rest a breeze, so stick with it.

Contributed by Ed Greene and Jack Reznicki

* Check your government's registration requirements and formally copyright your work! Until you can figure this out stick with an old practice...print a copy of your artwork and mail it to yourself through your government's postal system. DO NOT OPEN THE RETURN ENVELOPE or package. The date on the postal mark is a legal and binding date that further proves when your image was created. Store away the unopened envelope in case ownership proof is ever needed.

:::This Week's Recommended Reading:::

"The Joy of Imperfection" by Enid Howarth

Success - 3 Keys to Creating a Successful Attitude
By Jason Osborn

You have probably heard a lot of thing in your life about your attitude and how it can affect your success. Sometimes it can seem that the significance of your attitude it a bit overrated. The truth of the matter is that your attitude does have a major outcome on the results that you have in your life. Since it does have such a large impact on your success, here are 3 keys to help you create a successful attitude.

1. Stop limiting beliefs. Limiting beliefs are those beliefs that come into your head that tell you why you can’t do something. Although they may seem to have some truth behind them, the fact of the matter is that you can do anything that you want. As soon as you stop your limiting beliefs you will find that your attitude will change and will help you become more successful.

2. Get around other successful people. If you are always hanging around people with negative attitudes then you will most likely have a negative attitude yourself. By surrounding yourself with people who are successful you will see the successful attitude that is needed to achieve the level of success that you want in your own life.

3. Read books and articles on success attitudes. Have you ever noticed that when you read about something you have a tendency to think about it for a while after you have finished reading it? By reading books and articles that help develop a success attitude you can’t help remembering what those books have to say. Before long you will find that those books and articles are so ingrained into your head that you automatically start doing what those books suggest that you do.

Set goals and get started TODAY! Stop procrastinating.

Article Source: Jason Osborn

No Method
“Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough. Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.

Some set great value on method, while others pride themselves on dispensing with method. To be without method is deplorable, but to depend entirely on method is worse.

You must learn first to observe the rules faithfully; afterwards, modify them according to your intelligence and capacity. The end of all method is to seem to have no method.”

- Lu Ch'ai(Wang Kai), Master of Ch'ing Tsai T'ang, XVII-century

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Download free translation software to your website and to your Internet "Toolbar" to help with communicating to your world audience. Here are a few services to try:
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IN-BOX:

"Estestvenno prisoedinaus k vyseskazannomu!" From = Victor Mensikov

"This page encourages me to look beyond my own comfort zone." From = HC

Exhibition NEWS

See artist Myriam Lozada-Jarvis' exhibition this Summer at the Preston Contemporary Art Center

Next Week
An Interview with the Artist Ansgard Thomson
More wisdom from JD Jarvis

Quotes “

“Art is such a personal thing (making it, as well as, buying it) that my first inclination is to say to ignore most "constructive feedback" unless those comments strike a real and personal note.”
::: J.D. Jarvis :::

“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”
::: Bette Davis :::

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