

He learned how to frame art while working in a small frame shop part time while he was a student and a few months later his coworker pointed him in the direction of Deljou in Atlanta.

Craig earned an area award for academic excellence and the university's most prestigious exhibition, "Art with a Southern Drawl," featured 1 of Craig's pieces, out of 42 chosen from a field of more than 1,600 submissions. This blending of disparate influences and media is visually apparent in all of Craig's works, which demonstrate a broad knowledge and appreciation of the human form as well as the colorful world these beings occupy. With a focus on studio art, his minor concentration in theater further diversified Craig's craft and armed him with additional techniques in makeup and set design. To help sustain his education he found financial support and enjoyment in driving to New Orleans on his weekends and creating portraits for passersby on the streets, with original rates that baffle today, at $15 for charcoal and $30 for watercolor! This endeavor helped him perfect his flair for replicating the human figure and afforded the budding artist a sense of economic autonomy. He accepted a soccer scholarship at the University of Mobile, AL along with 3 summer art classes and in the first, Pottery, Craig's light bulb switched on in a rejuvenating glow! Learning became enjoyable from that point forward in his life and he was immediately thrust into the scholastic limelight. After excelling in an introductory drawing class in school, Craig continued to develop technically and conceptually through his own diligent studies while always planning to pursue a formal art education. It's this delta between where you were and where you are now that makes that first cup so powerful.And by the age of 7 his capacity for detailed visual interpretation became undeniable.
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This is in contrast to when you woke up, at which point your brain was full of adenosine, and groggy from sleep. ☕️ AFTERGLOW : Right about the time you finish your first cup of coffee, you have achieved a state of peak performance. Your endocrine system then reacts to the absence of adenosine by releasing glutamate, a neurotransmitter that increases your ability to learn and remember.

Since adenosine can't bond with your neurons, you feel alert, awake and more alive. Once there, it attaches itself to the part of your neurons that normally attract adenosine, the hormone that makes you sleepy. ☕️ DRINKING : Your body absorbs caffeine quickly, so it takes only a few minutes to reach your brain. That's certainly true of coffee, according to the journal of the American Chemical society, which noted that "coffee aroma orchestrates the expression of more than a dozen genes and changes in protein expressions." In other words, "wake up and smell the coffee" is more than just a metaphor. ☕️ : Aromas can suddenly remind you of past experiences because they're powerful brain triggers. According to the Journal of Social Science Information, environmental cues such as brewing your own coffee or driving to your favorite coffee shop release even more dopamine into your system. ☕️PREPARATION : Because you associate coffee with pleasure, the actions you take that lead you to experience that pleasure create their own Pavlovian response. You feel good even just knowing you'll soon be drinking your first cup. ☕️ ANTICIPATION : The moment you start thinking about your first cup of coffee, your endocrine system creates and releases dopamine, also known as the "anticipatory pleasure hormone," according to Lumen's Introduction of Psychology. Your first ☕️ Cup of Coffee does these 5 surprising things for Your Brain each and 🤎 Why is your first cup of coffee so important? 👉🏽 It’s all in neuroscience how coffee (and everything that surrounds it) affects your brain.
