It’s really hard to give yourself a mid-term assessment. But since I set out to create and follow my own art school curriculum, I must make a stab at charting progress.
Rather than write an exhaustive explanation of all I did, felt and thought, or even a summary of that, I’m doing a list review of [Read more...]
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Okay, so this isn’t someone wanting to switch careers. It’s not a person ready to switch mediums – from flute to painting. This is someone who wants to play. Who wants to relax her brain, get messy and enjoy color. Who wants to be surprised by her hand moving across paper. She wants to be free – to have a place where it doesn’t matter how good she is. When people show up for my illustrated journal classes, this is what they want: play, freedom, unjudged creativity. So I wrote this brief ste-by-step process to dip your toe into the playful journal zone. Try this at home! [Read more...]
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I seem to fill more pages in my journal when I’m traveling. I seem to draw and paint my food a lot. I am learning how to compose pages, how to tell stories with words and color and how to draw buildings and people.
Have a look inside my pages at my process, if [Read more...]
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An Interview with Eric Maisel
Eric Maisel is the author of Making Your Creative Mark and twenty other creativity titles including Mastering Creative Anxiety, Brainstorm, and Creativity for Life.
Eric coaches individuals and trains creativity coaches through workshops and keynotes nationally and internationally. Visit him online at http://www.ericmaisel.com.
I’d like to know [Read more...]
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Sometimes we get caught tinkering with the known. Tweaking code. Revising the first 30 pages endlessly. Painting the same subject again and again.
This is not creativity at its best.
I know what helps me forge ahead into lands of discovery and insight: free writing. This simple method popularized by Natalie Goldberg, helps writers [Read more...]
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When I was a girl child, I was convinced that when I grew up, I would move to New York where I would enjoy a scintillating life surrounded by rich men, having wonderful adventures.
Can you tell I read a lot of Danielle Steele novels?
Now, as an adult woman, I live in Denver, live [Read more...]
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All of my clients bump up against the frustration of how long it takes to write. Because we can access and send things at lightning speed, we think we should be able to write and create that quickly. But writing remains a slow process. Especially a book: this requires deep thinking and space to hash out and develop our ideas. [Read more...]
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I was in New York last month and had a delightful dinner with my friend Eric Michael Pearson. Not only is he a great photographer, Eric knows where to go for good food in New York.
I love Japanese food. As a quasi-vegetarian, there’s so much to eat at a Japanese restaurant. We ordered a [Read more...]
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I’m as nutty as the next creative person – lots of ideas, interest in a variety of mediums, a preference for play over work. So why have I been able to consistently start, finish and launch e-books, books, classes and programs? How do I make time for the creative adventures that are fun for me and continue to work? [Read more...]
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Sketching outdoors is so fun – to feel part of the pulse of a city as well as its observer. To enjoy overhearing people’s conversations. To sit and scrutinize the buildings around us. So rarely do we stop to absorb the beauty and wonder of what’s around us. It’s also rare to enjoy a piece of art you’ve made. There’s always that critical voice, pecking away at our satisfaction. So I was particularly thrilled to love the sketch I did of this, one of my favorite buildings in Denver. [Read more...]
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