Where the Magic Happens
There is however, a time and place where a routine is not helpful… inspiration. I swear, as I’ve continued to pour myself into my artistic practice I’ve only found routines to be a murderer of any creative spark…
The Art of Slow
Over the last five weeks I’ve been under the weather. Just not feeling 100%. This is something that has happened to me from time to time for sometimes days, sometimes weeks throughout my adult life…
Mastering Flow: A Love Affair with Creating
I recently had someone ask me when I first started painting… I realize that to a lot of people it looks like a year ago, I just picked up a paintbrush and started selling watercolor paintings.
That’s definitely not the whole story…
The Magic of the Creative Block
The first time I encountered a creative block, I had a full-blown panic attack. I went into a downward spiral of catastrophic thinking…
Go Hug a Tree
I hugged a big red pine on my walk yesterday. One much older and wiser than I…
The Other Side of Your Worst-Case-Scenario
…there I stood, on the banks of Sawbill Lake at the end of that summer, staring at a cloud ahead that was fat with rain, red light on the horizon, relishing this moment of beauty and solitude and I was so damn proud of myself. I got through my worst-case-scenario, all the stuff I thought I’d never be able to survive…
Don’t Forget Your “WHY”
I have been creating my entire life, but no one knew I was an artist until I was 31 years old…
