3 Ways to Thrive as an Artist 3 ways to thrive as an artist involve a combination of knowing techniques, holding a healthy belief system, and sharing art with a supportive artistic group. Making and sharing our art is hard, since it’s a personal piece of our Self. It’s our thoughts, our abilities, and our…… Continue Reading
Doing Art Deep Inner Work. We build so many walls inside ourselves. Discover what really holds you back Doing art deep inner work begins with what you do. Do you ever find yourself rushing through your art? The strokes are fast, you just want to get through it. I did when I first started out. And…… Continue Reading
Making Time for Art, An Attitude Adjustment Making Time for Art involves our core beliefs, developed over a lifetime. We’ve heard you need to be born with talent, artists are starving, you have to live near the art scene, or you have to have a strong art education. Teachers, friends, parents, books, and media set…… Continue Reading
Simplifying Art and Life: 3 Step Solution Simplifying Art and Life has been a challenge lately. Overwhelm seems to be the way of living online, in life, and with people. So stepping away from the hypnotic black rabbit hole gets trickier every day. Also, too many shiny choices, multiple directions, and how-to’s confuse us more…… Continue Reading
Attitude of Gratitude, Everything is what you think it is Attitude of Gratitude, the act of being thankful for whatever comes your way, serves you well. Accepting all parts of yourself, brings balance. This is life. Events just happen, others do their thing, and how you ‘relate’ to these occurrences creates your personal ‘bliss’ or…… Continue Reading
Soulful Art, Art from the Soul, Needs Space & Time Soulful Art comes from a place deep inside of us. Here lives inspiration, intuition, and original creativity. Plus, our truest self resides here, but we have to create Space and Time for it and each of us to thrive. Soulful Art longs to spread its…… Continue Reading
Art Brings You Home to Your Self Art Brings You Home, and this is a never ending Quest to follow the Love. We must be like explorers, never giving up the journey, because the reward is so great. When you are Doing Art you Love, you are back to Being Your Truest most Authentic Self.…… Continue Reading
Spirits of Place Hold an Energy, a Power, a Feeling Spirits of Place, or even of an object, can be felt by our Heart intuition and Gut instinct. Last week, upon entering John Bosshard’s long, narrow building filled with antiques, we felt a calm presence there. Buddhas, sculptures, and architectural items each told a story…… Continue Reading
Art Transformation in Subtle but True Increments Art Transformation happens as we shift our habits. When I think back to my first Art Transformation, I was coming out of teaching high school for 22 yrs. The system burned me out. First of all, there were too many state requirements, while not enough caring for what…… Continue Reading
Power of Tribe, Community, Gathering Power of Tribe was made so clear to me at the Toronto conference last week. I don’t think we really appreciate or realize the shifts inside that stay with us after we come together. Plus, any group holding the same intentions brings an energy and momentum to each of our…… Continue Reading