The More You Know So I recently came upon a video that helped me clarify the elements of art versus design, and what someone should look for. The 7 elements of art that I have unknowingly been researching are: cue: the more you know gif/theme song/eye roll It’s easy to have a lot of…

What’s Smaller Than A Shape? The Answer: A line. When I started researching this, I really didn’t think the details could this broken down. But with most things in 2020, the universe responds with, “But wait! There’s more!” Design Dojo defines a line as, “The path of a moving point through space.” Depending on how…

What Shape Should This Take? After almost a week of color coordination, I’ve decided that it’s time to discuss shape. I trust that colors, shapes and any other element of beauty has an endless amount of learning available, and I will gladly let the more passionate and knowledgeable handle that realm of things. Shapes were…

Ways To Talk About Beauty I’ve got to be honest, I never would have imagined how many ways there were to speak about color. It makes sense, given that when you speak about topics scientifically there are always more words and ways to define things than the average person uses. But still, hue means color…

Yesterday I mentioned that I didn’t fully understand value when it comes to color, so today I took a deep dive on what it means to find value in colors. I felt pretty silly by the third video of the day when a simple Google search defined value as, “…

In order to dive deeply into beauty, I’m starting with the basics. In a simple Google search one of the first videos that caught my eye was this video from BlenderGuru on understanding color. While I lean toward the belief that creating beauty necessitates a certain amount of freedom, I…

Today, my Co-Star app said, “Live out your own most secret wishes.” And you know what? Challenge accepted. This morning during my luxury hour it…

It’s there. In the quiet and cold. Because you thought it was outside, and yet it all turns in. Inward. Breathing in the cold air makes you realize that you are filled with something more. Something different. Something alive. But you have been living outside. Leaving behind that which holds you close and dear. Tenderly begging for you to come back home. Words spill out because you can’t stop seeking ways to overindulge and avoid the pain.

A belief in fullness. Yesterday I couldn’t stop eating. It was a hunger that came from deep in my belly and while occasionally I would feel “satisfied” and take a break, the hunger came back quickly and the eating would start again. What about thirst? That was there too. I…