RGW Inspiration: Words and Images

Do you have a dream? What or who would you like to be in the next year, the next ten years? What do you need to extricate from your life to become that? Are you willing to sacrifice who you are right this very minute? The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~Charles DuBois ––– Tree Tuesday  with thanks to  Christina Lawrie Allan Cabrera Ralph Mendoza Kim Troutman David R Robinson #TreeTuesday  #tgsmu15 #lasvegas #rgwoodpost #photography #googleplusphotos   #SunsetPhotography #Sunset

How to be the best artist. Ever since I can remember, I have always drawn, painted or otherwise tried to express my imagination through some form of aesthetic reality. Art has always been a part of me and always will be. It is not that art expression is something special in me, I feel that it is an intrinsic part of our humanity and that everyone has art in their nature. Wide expression takes training, but the capacity exists in everyone. I am not a formally trained artist. When I was young and drawing, in the first attempts that we usually do -- copying the art of others or sketching the lines of photographs by eye -- I never received much in the way of feedback or support. I took that as tacit response that I was no good at it. My father “hrrumpfed” and went back to what he was doing. Art teachers in early school were overworked and passing time. I stopped focusing on that as a goal. To express the creative side of my self I went into the cosmetology business -- and got stuck there f...