The Creative Life of Robert Abele

Robert Abele is an artist who paints Cape Cod scenes in oils. He is also a master of cultivating a creative life, and a master of articulating what this means.

We talk about becoming an artist, being inspired by a teacher, trying to be a Disney animator, capturing a feeling of time, selecting colors, playing in the shadows, skills that cross over beteween the arts, cultivating creativity in life, sailing, whales, the source of creativity, the flow state, rituals, the comfort of predictability, saving brainpower for the creative act, approaching art with an empty mind, goals, painting architecture, the purpose of art, motivation, time and balance, working out of you blocks, love of painting, how painting is a superpower, tenacity, how creativity saved his life, and more.

Photos of Robert's painting and his links are on the podcast shownotes page

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