How much do you have in the way of art supplies in your home or studio? Is it just the minimal amount you need for the current project(s) you’re working on? Is it enough so that you can adequately express any surge of fresh inspiration that might strike you at [...] Read more »
How To Prove You Actually Exist As An Artist
Do you ever find there are times when you wonder whether your creativity has dried up like a riverbed in the longest hottest summer ever known, never to be revived, and you’ll never again taste even a single drop of that creative flow you so long for? Sometimes too, do [...] Read more »
The Top 3 Reasons Why You’re A Secret Superhero (And Don’t Even Know It)
While there are some of us who need no encouragement to tell the world how great we are, most of us tend to fall on the other side of the scale. Instead of acknowledging all the talents and skills we have, and all the amazing stuff we do, we go [...] Read more »
The Burden Of Baggage And How Carrying It Is Crippling Your Creativity
When living our lives today, trying to be as creative as we can be, we have not only our own history and potential baggage to haul around, but that which we’ve inherited from others too. Here’s an analogy. Maybe you’ve had the experience of someone close to you passing away [...] Read more »
Finding Creative Freedom: The Bliss Of Being Barefoot And Belt-Less
If you didn’t have SO many different things restricting you, then yes of COURSE you’d be more creative, I know. But because you feel so limited with time, energy, ideas, and a dozen other factors, you don’t create at anywhere near your full potential, in terms of quality or volume. [...] Read more »
Why Men Look So Terribly Uncomfortable Holding Bouquets Of Flowers
Ever noticed how painfully uncomfortably men hold bouquets of flowers? It’s more prevalent around celebrations like Valentine’s day, or Mother’s Day, but it can be seen on a smaller scale throughout the year. There are a few different approaches, all look equally awkward. First, the truculent toddler look. Here the [...] Read more »
Why Your Creativity Is Being Crippled By An Outdated, Overworked OS
We may be humans and not personal computers, but nevertheless the internal Operating System (OS) we each run ultimately decides how creative, adventurous and successful we feel our creative lives are. What do we mean by your OS?? If your mind itself is the computer or the hardware, then the [...] Read more »