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Breathtaking Repetition
Who wants to do the exact same thing, moment after moment, quarter-hour after quarter-hour? Keep striding on the treadmill? Keep practicing the same chord sequence? Keep sending out the same email to one prospective customer after another? Keep painting flower after...
One of My Favorite Resources for Artists
Do you know Hyperallergic? If you don't, check it out! No better way to keep abreast of the art world and especially the alternative or activist art world.
Professional Artist Magazine FREE Collection
Now you can access all my Professional Artist Magazine articles FOR FREE. Four Tips for Handling a Gallery Closing, What’s Your Next Big Art Idea?, Five Tips for Dealing with Criticism, and 35 more articles of real value to every visual artist. Just visit here and...
What If You Love Another Art Form More?
My art form is writing. I appreciate the visual arts and film. Dance leaves me pretty cold. Sculpture I find a very mixed bag. But music—sometimes I’m certain that music is the greatest art form of all, the art form with the most power to transport us and move us. No...
Hate Marketing? Change Your Self-Talk!
Change That Self-Talk! Marketing is hard enough without sabotaging yourself with unhelpful self-talk. You say that you don’t like marketing? Change your self-talk! What you say to yourself helps your ability to market your art or hurts your ability to market your art....
Your Great Creativity Practice
What does it take to maintain a great creativity practice? Find out here!
The FAQs of Daily Practice
This post is part four of a series of posts on the psychological and practical benefits of daily practice to be found on my Psychology Today blog. In this series, I’ll explore the elements of daily practice, varieties of daily practice, challenges to daily practice,...
The FAQs of Daily Practice
This post is part four of a series of posts on the psychological and practical benefits of daily practice to be found on my Psychology Today blog. In this series, I’ll explore the elements of daily practice, varieties of daily practice, challenges to daily practice,...
Where Will You Find the Time to Paint?
Dear Dr. Maisel: I was hoping to have more time for painting when my youngest child went to college, but I'm still having trouble finding time in my day. Any suggestions? Too Busy in Boise ** Dear Too Busy (if I may): In the sense in which you are using the word, time...
Too Distracted By Events to Paint?
I got the following question. Here's how I answered it. Dear Dr. Maisel: I've been so mentally distracted by the news lately that I've had a lot of trouble getting motivated to paint and then staying focused when I do. Any thoughts on what I might do? Agitated in...
