These last few weekends, we enjoyed live shows in Charlotte, NC, Reston, VA and the delivery of a custom framed piece to a lovely family on Long Island. We were able to meet with our audiences, share insights, techniques and have more art move into people’s homes and brighten their lives. It always brings a […]
Category: Creative
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Visit with Jim – Bending Light
My artwork is a fusion of science and creativity, where I manipulate light to create captivating images. The key scientific principles behind my art are refraction and reflection. These involve the bending of light as it passes through different materials and/or how light bounces off of different surfaces. In my specific art, I only use […]
Visit with Jim – Career Transformations
As a successful executive physician and artistic photographer, I believe that many people in today’s fast-paced and dynamic world are seeking ways to reinvent themselves. We are often pursuing a career path aligned to and within our existing professional track. This also applies to physicians and scientists who may be interested in transitioning to the […]
Visit with Jim – Science Crashes into Art
I was recently trying to further bridge the gap between my mental model of having a right brain – left brain construct (while no longer considered an accurate model) with one side being artistic and the other being a logical scientist. How did that relate to the artwork? How did one’s mind set up […]
Visit with Jim – Illuminate
Thursday arrives and as I continue this journey towards being known as a professional photographic fine artist, part of that requires me to better understand the nature of my niche within the art world, the interaction it sparks with the viewing community and how it creates meaningful value for the customer. Today is a post […]
Visit with Jim – There are no waves without…
Fluidity in Coral and Blues #2 Today’s post takes off from a passage in a book The Art of Just Sitting. It is a Buddhist approach to many things in life. It is one amongst a pile of books for me to read in this genre in order to better ground myself and my thinking. […]
Visit with Jim – What’s in a Frame
Today’s post and read goes to having my breath taken away. I have written in the past about my technique for setting up and capturing a photograph that I share in my social media or in my gallery. I have also described how we choose our frames by attending estate sales in the greater Richmond area […]
Visit with Jim – Collaborative Art is even Better Air for the Mind
Today’s post revisits Art is Air for the Mind®. I wrote about this topic several months ago and spoke about how the creative process has helped me and opened new parts of my mind in the creative process. I wanted to take that a step further and share a discovered collaborative art process that is […]
Visit with Jim – Creative Spaces
Creative spaces… I began by wondering what did I mean with this as the title for our short conversation today? Creative spaces can go in several directions and dimension. We can begin with virtual space. Consider when an image is captured and we think through the potential landscape or world that could exist in that […]
Visit with Jim – Abundance versus Scarcity
Happy Birthday Mary V. McCormick – Deeply grateful that we had the chance to chat tonight and celebrate your day. I love, love love creating these photographs. Nor can I get enough of my weekend time isolated for the set up, experiment that unfolds and the photographs that are captured. I thoroughly enjoy sharing them […]