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The Yellow Ochre Newsletter

The Pressure Of Online Art

Published 5 months ago • 1 min read

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Hey there Reader!

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Enjoy this week's spark for your creativity:
  • Free (or next to free) art courses. Perhaps you're looking for some free (or next to free) places to find help learning an artform. Since one of my main crafts is visual art, here are some tremendous resources I've found helpful over the years: my favorite online painters, Sentient Academy, Schoolism, Raphael Lacoste, Domestika.
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  • Sermon art sketching. Does anyone else do this? I've found some refreshment in how I've been listening to Sunday sermons. 20-40 minutes have been ample time to sketch whatever comes to my imagination from what I'm hearing in the sermons. Check out my last 5 weeks or so of sermon sketches.
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  • Arts for a Better Future Workshop. If you are interested in learning how arts can help communities, be sure to check out this year's Arts for a Better Future workshop. The workshop will be in Dallas June 8-13, 2025.
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  • Finding your visual voice. For all the visual artists out there seeking to dive deeper into their unique giftings, watch John Hendrix's presentation.
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  • Culture Care. Makoto Fujimura's book Culture Care has been one of those touchstone books for me. In response to today's culture wars, Mako makes a case for a more beautiful way for artists to engage their world and communities. Check out this 30-minute overview of this culture care idea. Artists especially will served by this.
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  • The pressure of online art. Ever feel this way? Keep making! Don't feel bad if you don't measure up to the skill of others! Resist!!!

- Matt

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