Showing Up to Create

Today’s post is about showing up. I think Woody Allen is the one who is quoted as saying winning or success is 99% about showing up. (Or was that Charlie Sheen?) Nevermind, the point is I made a commitment to publish a photo or two each day during this week-long photography challenge and I am keeping […]

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Criteria for Showing Your Art

When you make art, be it writing or painting or photography or music, there is a temptation to compare your work to that of other artists. This inexplicable urge opens the mind to doubt and unhelpful questions. Comparing leads us down a dangerous path toward competition, envy, frustration, possibly despair.  If we entertain too many doubts and […]

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Photography Week Challenge

Sometimes we let a dare get away from us. Does that ever happen to you?  It happened to me (again) today.  As a result, I will be showing some photographs during the coming week as part of a creativity challenge. I hope you enjoy them. If you’d like to show some photographs of your own, […]

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Stirring Broken Eggs

At the beginning of my creativity coach training with Eric Maisel, one of our assignments was to break some fine fresh eggs into a bowl, shells and all, and stir them around.  Keep the bowl of broken eggs at your workspace and each time you feel tempted or compelled to get up and go do some distraction, […]

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Dreading the Year End Review

I’ve been avoiding even thinking about doing an end of the year review because it sounds too clinical and institutional and pain-centered. I say pain-centered because although a few things turned out great, I didn’t accomplish as much as I had hoped to this year. I got sidetracked on some interesting and fanciful paths. There […]

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Labyrinth in Winter Painting

I recently wrote a guest post for Connie Hozvicka over at Dirty Footprints Studio.  In it, I mention a painting I did of a labyrinth. Here it is.  My husband and I actually stomped a huge labyrinth in the snow once.  Diameter might have been sixty feet or so.  I sketched it on a paper […]

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My Twitterartexhibit Postcard

Let’s art it up a little, shall we? You won’t believe what I cooked up recently. This little number went to a good cause: the #twitterartexhibit project in Norway, organized by David Sandum. The exhibit consists entirely of hand painted (ahem or otherwise arted) postcard size pieces of art by artists around the globe. Even […]

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Inspiration and Creativity

Many creative people apparently believe or subscribe to the idea that “inspiration” must strike so that we can be creative, regardless of how motivated we may feel about our creative work.  Do you believe it? More important:  How have you tested your belief? What conditions make that spark of “inspiration” more likely to happen? Is inspiration the same as flow? […]

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Art Journal for a Writer

One of my current areas of creative interest is art journaling.  Here is an interview I did for the 31st day of the 30 Art Journals in 30 Days project out of Dirty Footprints Studio.  Artist, teacher and instigator extraordinaire Connie Hozvicka asked: •How long have you been Art Journaling? A couple of months — since I […]

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Blue Moon Creativity Quirks

  The more I read and experience and observe creative people, the more I notice how we get in our own way and limit our creativity by imposing rules about the conditions we require in order to create. We might be convinced we can only create using specific tools or in a certain setting or […]

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