28 Ideas for a Stay at Home Life
It’s a whole new world. In a matter of weeks, the whole world has had their daily lives upended. With all the negative news, I thought I’d like to contribute …
Creative Life
Create with Purpose by Knowing Your WHY
This is a post I wrote last year about this time. But many of my readers are new and I thought it would be helpful for those that are looking …
7 Tips for Experiencing Art at a Museum, Exhibit or Gallery
Looking at art through the lens of the artist is essential, knowing the time and environment they created in is vital for understanding their work. But experiencing others’ work to …
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5 Reasons We Need a Space to Create In
With more people crafting and creating, the problem of where to do it is a real challenge. For those of us who create at home, we usually make do with …
How Copying can Jumpstart Your Creativity
Art Schools teach us to do it. Copying the art of the masters has been one of the traditional assignments in art college for decades. Many of the most famous …
Creative Practice Makes Purpose
Practice does not make perfect, it makes purpose. So many of us have spent years pursuing our goals and dreams for “someday,” when we could be experiencing it in small …
Why We Should be the Curator of Our Life.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word curator has two modern definitions. 1. a person whose job is to be in charge of the objects or works of art …
How to Survive Art Anxiety
Without knowing what the creative process is like for you, I can tell you there are times that I feel a little traumatized by it. It’s a feeling I get …
Growing in the Waiting
About an hour ago, I walked back into my house for the first time in 12 days. There’s just something about coming home after a time away that makes me …
How to Draw Books Adults Will Love
Do you want to learn how to draw? I had a teacher tell me once that drawing wasn’t about moving a pencil across a page. It was about seeing. As …
