Tag: art practise
A Creative Mix - What Is It?
April 30, 2026
This past year I facilitated two afternoon art classes where participants could explore creativity without needing any drawing or painting skills. In “Creative Collage” and “A Creative Mix”, I wanted students to ...
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The Rewards of Commitment
January 2, 2026
Every September and January I teach, “Drawing: The Right Approach”, a class for total beginners (though all experience welcome). At the start I suggest that the four most important things for ...
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The Creative Focus at MISSA
July 30, 2024
In hindsight, I can see that it was a random chain of events that led me to teach drawing at the Metchosin Summer School of the Arts (MISSA) this July.
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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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How Birds Give Us a Sense of Wonder
October 3, 2023
One of the most precious gifts I received as a child was a large picture book of birds painted by the 19th century ornithologist/artist, James Audubon. It was from my grandparents in ...
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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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