Your Creative Push

Blake McFarland is a recycled materials artist who uses recycled rubber tires to create amazing lifelike sculptures of tire animals.  In addition to his tire sculptures, Blake is a painter and he also creates murals out of recycled wine corks. Blake is also a pitcher in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/blakemcfarland In this episode, Blake discusses: -Having two identities as a baseball player and an artist and how he balances those two worlds. -How the baseball offseason provides months of time that he can fully devote to his art. -The type of art (and planning) he does during the baseball season. -How he started as an acrylic painter and sold his very first piece. -How Goodyear reached out to him to make sculptures for the Cotton Bowl. -His method for deciding what specific type of art to do in a particular day. -The initial resistance of people not understanding what he meant when he told them he wanted to create tire sculptures, and his decision to create it