Shotsie Gorman

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The the Fresno convention . I will be offering my FREE seminar on unblocking you creativity! “ A CONVERSATION WITH SHOTSIE GORMAN” A SEMINAR PRESENTED “FREE OF CHARGE” available for ARTIST ATTENDEES OF THE FRESNO TATTOO EXPO For Jason My material needs for the seminar are as Follows: are a slide projector and viewing screen. access to light control in the room, if possible a dry erase board and markers. Duration is one hour with Question and Answer period following. A power Point slide show and discussion that covers and ranges from creativity , quantum physics, Brain mapping, Creative visualizations, finding your own voice. How to Deal with Creative Challenges
 SHOTSIE WILL SHOW YOU HOW to deal effectively with creative abilities instead of feeling overwhelmed by numerous ideas, interests and projects. 
Work with creative resistance and dissolve creative ‘blocks’
 Cultivate ‘flow’ and bring creative projects to actual completion! If you wonder about your creativity or are having difficulty manifesting your creativity into a successful and fulfilling experience, you are not alone. However, you may be the only highly creative person in your immediate environment. That experience can feel psychologically isolating. Shotsie will provide actual tools to help you through this process. ARE THESE YOUR ISSUES? 1. Trying to Find the “Right” Answer One of the worst aspects of formal education is the focus on the correct answer to a particular problem. While this approach helps us function in society, it hurts creative thinking because real-life issues are ambiguous. There’s often more than one “correct” answer, and the second one you come up with might be better than the first. “THERE ARE NO RIGHT ANSWER IN CREATIVITY!” 2. Logical Thinking Not only is real life ambiguous, it’s often illogical to the point of madness. While critical thinking skills based on logic are one of our main strengths in evaluating the feasibility of a creative idea, it’s often the enemy of truly innovative thoughts in the first place. One of the best ways to escape the constraints of your own logical mind is to think . One of the reasons why metaphors work so well in communications is that we accept them as true without thinking about it. When you realize that “truth” is often symbolic, you’ll often find that you are actually free to come up with alternatives. 3. Following Rules One way to view creative thinking is to look at it as a destructive force. You’re tearing away the often arbitrary rules that others have set for you, and asking either “why” or “why not” whenever confronted with the way “everyone” does things. This is easier said than done, since people will often defend the rules they follow even in the face of evidence that the rule doesn’t work. People love to celebrate rebels like Richard Branson, but few seem brave enough to emulate him. Quit worshipping rule breakers and start breaking some rules. 4. Being Practical Like logic, practicality is hugely important when it comes to execution, but often stifles innovative ideas before they can properly blossom. Don’t allow “YOUR PERSONAL CRITIC” into the same room with your inner artist. I will discuss how to get the critic out of your head! 5. Play is Not Work You’ve heard the expression “work hard and play hard.” All you have to realize is that they’re the same thing to a creative thinker. 6. Being a “Serious” Person Most of what keeps us civilized boils down to conformity, consistency, shared values, and yes, thinking about things the same way everyone else does. . 7. Avoiding Ambiguity We rationally realize that most every situation is ambiguous to some degree. And although dividing complex situations into black and white boxes can lead to disaster, we still do it. It’s an innate characteristic of human psychology to desire certainty. 8. MAKING MISTAKES OR Being Wrong is Bad We hate being wrong, and yet mistakes often teach us the most. Thomas Edison was wrong 1,800 times before getting the light bulb right. Edison’s greatest strength was that he was not afraid to be wrong. SO IF YOU ARE WONDERING HOW THE GUYS IN THE MAGAZINES ARE GETTING ALL THOSE IDEAS , HOW TO LOSE YOUR SELF CRITIC, HOW TO ENGAGE IN A CONVERSATION WITH YOUR SELF? THEN JOIN IN “THE CONVERSATION WITH SHOTSIE GORMAN” FREE-- AT THE Fresno CA \ convention EugeneOr CONVENTION

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For the best prices on the p,lanet for art supplies go to www. Jerrysartarama.com the deals are enormpous once your on their mail list they send out cupons sometimes for up to 90% off products! They also carry aloine of great how to books on watercolor process. Use real fine art water colors- Dr MArtins are not light fast! Many local towns have water color societies that offer classes. So you paint pretty pictures of kittens but you learn about the material and process which takes I have to say years to master.

Seems to me if he wants to try Japanese tattooing or Traditional tattooing you need to have him design some flash. He must do a study in Japanese style that is up to your standards and so with the traditional. Once he gets three maybe four of his best paintings on those styles together put them in his book and let him go at one if a customer chooses him and the design he has created. No orifginal paintngs then his lettering days are stretched out in front of him. It seems unfare to limit him because this is you area of skill. Thats why he wanted to apprentice with you in the first place- no? Make him work for it. Have him do his first japanese deasin on a friend for free. then teach him along the way. If he's too impatient to learn from his mentor-- then shine him on and get someone else in that chair! Tattooing is alot like cliff diving practice makes perfect or it kills you! Shotsie

It's courious to me that anyone would be suprised by spiritual and religious tattoos being part of the tattoo world. It is, it's place of origin. Tattooing did not start ouit as a political tool,nor a purely decorative one. It is in it's essence a way of altering the body to represent the inner life's changes. or as in "Right of Passage Rituals" Passage from one age to the next from childhood to adulthood, from death of a loved one,to moving on passed the mourning stage. It has to do with totemic practices where there is a beilieved passage of the spirits of a Slain enemy or a loved ones energy to the bearer. Get a tattoo like UNcle Bill's? well that is totemism in a modern form without the concious idea that you are calling forth Uncle Bill's energy his "power"in you when you wear this mark. All great religious forms have had rituals inwhich there is blood letting for instance the Roman Catholic Confirmation has a small slap on the face by the Bishop to confirm you into adulthood and commitment to the church-- IN the old practice this would have been a cut to your face producing blood. "killing of the old self to release the new born soul!" It is the death and resurection and so are all tattoos a kin to this idea. So on and so on Tattooing has always been the tool of the Shaman -- a tool in magical service to the "HEALING" process of the individual. Early Christians Like the "Coptics" when persecuted by the Romans; and I mean sent to the Lions for sport. They had to have a small crucifix tattooed on the inside of their left wrists --this meant they could enter the secret meetings in hidden places -- and could not be Romans. This practice still exists today. Most pilgrams to the holy lands of the world collect tattoos as proof they were there. In oour culture there are no clear cut rituals so tattooing reaches into the place of our deepest connection with the fears and desires of mankind to his spiritual self. Athiest or no this is a place where we all wonder the deppest thoughts of why we are here? what is purpose? what happens after death? What is love? Although you may not be aware of its origin --I'd say most all images relate to this process! Prhaps Not specifically but in the act of Doing or collecting a tattoo you are doing and collecting a spiritual amulet a way of saying you are protected you are Human and you are Mortal. Anyway that's my two cents! Shotsie

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Vitligo is far more than a simple loss of pigment, it is an auto immune disorder. The body sees the bodies natural melanocytes as invading substances and begins to attack them. It's related to other auto immune diseases and has no clear path of origin or currently no clear path of soving. It can lie dormant for months sometimes years even regenerate and reimpigment spontaneously. Often people with this issue suffer small cuts on pigmented areas and it can cause a loss of pigment and start a larger loss in that areas affected. Tattooing over areas or patches of white skin can cause areas of hyperimpigmentation on the borderline between the tattooed area and the exisisting area of pigment loss (creating a ring aroound the area.) In addition exposure ot the sun can cause loss of pigmernted areas surround the tattoo. Blacks and very dark skinned people can find some relief with hiding the depigmented areas as long as thier skin is not exposed to the sun. In some cases the gene TYR, which makes the melanocyte more susceptible to the immune system in vitiligo, also makes the melanocyte more susceptible to the immune system in the skin cancer malignant melanoma. Vitilgo activated oin a tattooed are can actually pull the pigment from the tattoo as well.