Learning to be a magician can only happen when more experienced magicians share their tricks, wisdom and knowledge. When I started to learn how to be a magician, the library was a great place to discover magician’s secrets. I probably took out all the magic books in the library multiple times each. That helped me to absorb the tricks and tips that they were revealing to me. I’m so thankful that other magicians before me also found value in sharing magic.
Giving Back
After having been a full-time performer for most of my life, I’m sharing my magic creations with other magicians. My ideas are very well respected in the magic community and have enabled me to perform at magic conventions across Canada and the States.
Sharing Magic Lecture Tour
Currently, I’m getting ready to head back to China to present some shows and also give lectures and workshops to magicians in multiple cities throughout China. The tricks that I’ll be teaching have been refined over many years and are all in my working repertoire. Fairly soon, I’ll be sending the text of the instructions to my contact in China. He’ll have it translated into Mandarin.
Sharing Magic through Illustrations
The two illustrations above I created and are just a few of the many that help to explain the tricks I’ll be teaching. Each illustration starts with a photo and from there I create a line drawing by hand. There is an art to providing the correct amount of visual information in the illustrations. Like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Win, Win
Sharing magic is great fun as it continues the tradition of passing along secrets from one generation to the next. One additional benefit of sharing magic is that I also learn new techniques and ideas from the magicians I meet globally.