How to Avoid Artistic Burnout: Create Like You’re on a Seesaw
When your ideas ignite your imagination, you start jumping around like bubbles in a boiling pot. You get excited, the creative flow gets going …
Creative Storm: 10 Ways to Use Ideas to Ignite Your Imagination
Imagination comes naturally when you’re a kid, but for the majority of adults, imagination is buried beneath life’s demands and …
Want to Fly With Your Art? Step Off a Cliff.
Making art can seem scary. You work out your fears, the nagging little buggers on your shoulder, wade through excuses and cut through …
Art of Observing: The Key to Endless Creativity
If you want to create, practice observing. Art making comes almost completely from observing. You observe the space around you with all of your …
Workshop: Is There Any Action in Your Plan?
Got a plan with no ACTION or maybe no plan at all? Do you need a plan… for your plan? You’re not the only one! The difference between your …
Mistakes: Why You Should Make One Today
Nothing stops spontaneous creativity in its tracks more than thoughts of being prepared or of being judged. Am I ready? Do I know enough? …
Artist’s Giving and Charities: Can They Both Benefit?
As an artist, I’ve been asked to give to charity… a lot. Only a few that I’ve worked with have engaged with the artist, asked …
How to Get Into The Creative Flow and Sidestep the Top 3 Myths of Art.
This post is to encourage and empower those who are not creating right now or if you need to find your unique style. If you are in the creative flow …
Ever Feel Like Giving Up?
Beginning In 2006, I was gaining traction on my art career and selling work at festivals. I had taken that first step in 2003 (more on that …
Go With The Creative Flow
Ever have one of those days when the creativity just doesn’t flow? One of those days when you have grand plans to complete a pile of projects, …