Artists and Insomnia

According to a Princeton National Health and Wellness Survey, thirty-seven percent of U.S. adults reported insomnia or sleep difficulties during a recent twelve-month period. Between 40% and 60% of people over the age of 60 suffer from insomnia. Two million children...

Do You Have the Answers?

It will pay you excellent dividends to arm yourself with some personal answers to the following ten questions. What will you do when: + You really want to paint but you feel resistant? + Everything else in life seems to come before the painting? + You’ve painted for...

Presenting Yourself With Strength

If it’s become your habit to apologize for your work, to hide from potential buyers, to avoid marketplace interactions, to dismiss yourself as soon as you can (as if beating others to the punch), then these are bad habits that you will want to change. To change a...

Want To Make New Art?

Do you want to try your hand at some new art but feel resistant? Here are four tips for getting started! First, try to detach from your current visual library A very common problem, and almost always an unconscious one, is the need an artist feels to make his work...

4 Tips for Completing Your Creative Projects

Here are 4 tips for completing your creative projects: One. Don’t believe that this is your “best idea ever” (and therefore feel scared that there will be nothing coming next after this one is done). A new idea will percolate up once this project is finished! Two....