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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...

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....

Today I’m presenting a one-day writing workshop in London, auspices of Alternatives. This past week I led a weeklong deep writing workshop here in London, in Bloomsbury, at the London Center of Arcadia University. It’s been a lovely week (with some afternoon drinking...

In the psychological literature you will hear about “good stress” (called eustress) and “bad stress” (called distress). But it isn’t the stress that is good or bad, it is the stressor. The stressor or demand may be so-to-speak positive, like a gallery wanting a show...

There may be new creative projects that you want to begin or new ways of marketing and promoting yourself that you know would be smart to attempt but something seems to be holding you back. Here are four tips that will lead very naturally to an increase in your...

A painter complained to me that her friends, the organizations where she volunteered her time, family members, and the few gallery owners with whom she dealt regularly took advantage of her. I asked her what her role was in this unfortunate dynamic. She responded at...

Creating depends on having a mind quiet enough to allow ideas to bubble up. Living a successful, healthy life as an artist requires that your self-talk align with your goals and your aspirations. Your job is to quiet your mind and extinguish negative self-talk. These...

Many visual artists also write or want to write. Nothing could be more natural: someone interested in expressing herself, sharing her vision, and having a voice is likely to want to manifest those desires in all the ways available to her, painting and writing being...

It is possible to change your relationship to your moods—and over time change your moods themselves. You accomplish this by learning how to lead with your life purposes and by making the decision that your life purposes are going to trump your moods. That is, you make...

It is hard to pay attention to everything in life – to our art, to our career, to all of our other responsibilities … and to our eating. There are many reasons for our preoccupation with food, unhealthy eating patterns, and general insatiability. An important reason,...