by admin-eric | Jul 17, 2015 | Fine Arts America
It is a creative person’s individuality that defines her. Most people are conventional and prize conformity; some people prize their individuality. Even if she trains herself to hold her tongue, an individual who prizes her individuality will already know as a young...
by admin-eric | Jul 10, 2015 | Fine Arts America
It can prove a very long journey from artistic child to a genuine opportunity to pursue one’s art. Sometimes a whole “day job” or “raising family” work life intervenes and it is only during retirement that art making has a chance flourish. Here is one such story: “I...
by admin-eric | Jul 3, 2015 | Fine Arts America
How do you picture your childhood artistic life? Was art the place of sanity for you, the place where you got to remove yourself from the turmoil and the dramas around you and retreat into your imagination? Or do you think that your art-making activities isolated you...
by admin-eric | Jun 26, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Life produces stress, the artistic personality produces additional stress, creating produces even more stress, and living the artist’s life is the topper! An artist must learn how to deal with all of these stressors—and how to deal with them effectively. There are...
by admin-eric | Jun 19, 2015 | Fine Arts America
One of the things that became extra clear to me as I led workshops in London, at Esalen, at Kripalu and at Omega recently was how much ceremonies matter and can help—in your life and in your creative life. By “ceremony” I just mean a small, mindful activity with a...
