Category: Motivation
Health Equals Creativity
January 5, 2025
To live a creative life, you don’t need an ideal working space, money to buy paint, a difficult past or to have been born with tons of talent. I think the main ...
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Keep Dreams Alive
May 31, 2024
Categories: Inspiration, Motivation
What is your dream? We may have fantasies about what we would like to happen, but knowing how to make them come true may be about as clear as trying to see ...
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The Search for Treasure
May 1, 2024
A common stumbling block for artists is “not knowing what to draw, paint, write or sew etc…”. I have heard students or artist friends lament about this and I have been stuck ...
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Permission to Paint
March 3, 2024
I’ve always felt that I had permission to be an artist. Not in an official way, like I asked someone and they said it was ok – but in a way that ...
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Like Riding A Bike - Getting Creative Work Done
January 1, 2024
I’ve always disliked goals – maybe it’s because my goals weren’t set in reality. I tried goals to “do a painting every week”, or “make set amount of money” but it just ...
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What Is The Purpose?
December 5, 2023
Categories: Inspiration, Motivation
But it is not always easy to know what our unique purpose is. So, I wonder if we can just feel rest assured that there are two true purposes for every human ...
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Unexpected Lessons Learned in a Renovation
January 2, 2023
It started with digging a giant hole in front of our house – an equally large pile of dirt sat in our front yard, which was soon joined by a surprising amount ...
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Peace is in Patience
July 4, 2022
I think “patience” is an underrated, yet very valuable quality to have. Patience means being able to tolerate long periods of things not looking like they are progressing, or are like they ...
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Tapping Into Creativity
June 1, 2022
It was one of those days where you feel like a walking accident waiting to happen; everything you touch either breaks, falls or doesn’t work. My accompanying state of mind was scattered ...
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How Decisions Factor in Art
May 3, 2022
I often mention to my drawing students that being an artist means you have to make art decisions. What to work on, when to work, how long, what subject matter; once you’re ...
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