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It's hard to start learning something new. Here're some tips to make it less painful.… Continue reading How to make learning to draw a whole lot easier. →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2018/01/11/how-to-make-learning-to-draw-a-whole-lot-easier/

Shit happens. Here's what you do about it.… Continue reading How to face change. →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2016/11/20/how-to-face-change/

My latest perilous odyssey. Driving from NYC to LA while being a dad.… Continue reading Here be dragons. →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2016/10/05/here-be-dragons/

How to survive — no mater what they throw at you.… Continue reading 98 years of change.   →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2016/09/23/98-years-of-change/

A pep talk, of sorts.… Continue reading How to fail.  Epically.  →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2016/09/22/__trashed/

A summer of experimenting — and walking away.… Continue reading What happened in the Studio. →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2016/09/13/what-happened-in-the-studio/

An open letter about being open.… Continue reading Dear You: →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2016/09/10/dear-you/

Doing more means doing less.… Continue reading What I didn’t do this Summer →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2016/09/09/what-i-didnt-do-this-summer/

Eleven things I did in an attempt to relax.… Continue reading What I did this Summer →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2016/09/06/what-i-did-this-summer/

Some thoughts on the latest milestone.… Continue reading 56 →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2016/09/04/56/

Art, they say, is great for kids. Art and music programs help keep them in school, make them more committed, enhance collaboration, strengthen ties to the community and to peers, improve motor ...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2016/04/15/lets-get-rid-of-art-education-in-schools/

For a while, I have been wondering why the art conferences at which I speak are filled with women. Why most of the commenters on this blog are women. Why Jack’s class at RISD is predominantly f...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2016/04/13/why-men-dont-take-art-classes/

How to create a habit and stick to it.… Continue reading The Resolution Solution →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/12/29/resolution-solution/

Three inspiring experiences I had this week.… Continue reading Inspiration Monday: Filling the well. →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/11/02/inspiration-monday-filling-the-well/

An overview of the gear I use to write thousands of blog posts and dozen of books.… Continue reading The writer’s guide to essential gear. →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/10/29/the-writers-guide-to-essential-gear/

First in a series on seven deadly creative sins.… Continue reading The Sin of GREED →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/10/15/greed/

Why I spent a week in Basel drawing with lil folks. And how it will change the world.… Continue reading Corrupting the youth of Switzerland. →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/09/21/basel/

A week of getting back into shape.… Continue reading Mortified. →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/09/12/mortified/

On the perils of living another year.… Continue reading Some thoughts while blowing out candles. →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/09/04/some-thoughts-while-blowing-out-candles/

How I got hooked on a feeling.… Continue reading My heroin addiction. →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/08/15/my-heroin-addiction/

How to keep your learning fresh.… Continue reading Keeping the fun in fundamentals. →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/07/18/keeping-the-fun-in-fundamentals/

Why does criticism sting?… Continue reading Spare the rod. →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/06/27/spare-the-rod/

What is your creative goal?… Continue reading No returns, no regrets →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/06/25/no-returns/

I’m a big, fat vat of soup.  Deep below my surface, I am roiling, ingredients churning, interacting, breaking down to add flavor and texture.  Sometimes I’m hot and bubbling, giving off a d...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/06/11/soup/

The perils of wearing too many hats.… Continue reading The Dangers of Dabbling →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/06/06/the-dangers-of-dabbling/

A confession: This blog and my creative life have steadily deteriorated of late. Here's an explanation and the plan to turn this grim situation around.… Continue reading Why I started to suck &...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/06/02/why-i-sucked-and-how-i-plan-to-stop/

Recently I was invited to participate in a lovely series called “The Original” Documented Life Project™”. Guest artists are asked to document their process in making a piece. I was email...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/03/21/documented-life-project/

When I started working with Keith, I was not in great shape.  I had pains in my lower back, carpal tunnel syndrome, and chronic headaches. But I just grinned and bore these maladies. As far as I...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2015/01/22/baby-steps/

How we see student/teacher feedback and the best way to learn.… Continue reading Learning to teach beginners. On the teaching philosophy of Sketchbook Skool →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2014/12/10/on-the-art-of-teaching-beginners/

Things that happened so long ago were real. The pain was real. The marks were real. As I grew bigger, other bad things happened. Unexpectable things. Unimaginable things. Things that were all to...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2014/11/24/living-in-the-real-world/

If you haven’t gone to the gym in a long time, how do you start again? If you haven’t done a drawing in a long time, how do you start again? If you haven’t written a blog post in a long tim...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2014/11/17/starting-again/

In the 1980s when photocopying technology became increasingly available, David Hockney made a series of prints using a Xerox machine.  I was looking at some of these prints recently and trying t...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2014/07/23/why-it-doesnt-look-just-like-the-picture/

Miles Davis’ quartet is working How Deep is the Ocean a few feet away. I have an almost drained but still frosty glass of pilsner next to me on the window sill. There’s a slight breeze comin...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2014/07/21/pulling-my-head-out-of-my-head/

I’ve spent a lot of time over the years convincing people that making art is just as natural as breathing. And as easy.  But maybe I’ve been avoiding the hard truth. That making art can be h...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2014/07/07/hard-confession/

Imagine if your head was in a metal box and your neck didn’t move. In fact your entire body was rigid, like a quadriplegic locked into a wheelchair. You can only look straight ahead and, at any...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2014/06/25/dont-roll-your-eyes-at-me/

For most of the history of mankind, mankind had little time for Art. People spent all their days just trying to survive, tilling the soil, tending to their herds, struggling to turn raw nature in...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2014/06/23/the-museum-of-you/

I can smell the toast so deeply I can taste it. Not like “I want that so badly, I can taste it” but literally, like the atoms of carbonated bread have drifted through the air, into my nostril...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2014/06/20/toast-master/

When I was running a creative department a few years ago, I decided to make a film about creativity at the agency. Not about my department, but about people in accounting, account services, produ...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2014/06/16/kiss-all-frogs/

I have always been a dabbler. I have tried so many things, thrilled at the initial excitement of learning a new skill. Here’s a partial list. In high school, I learned the basics of how to writ...

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2014/06/11/master-of-none/

How do you begin? Why is it so painful? How do you not give up? … Continue reading On beginning →

https://dannygregorysblog.com/2014/04/18/on-beginning/