Are You Organized?

Organization can be a real challenge for each of us. It is even more of a challenge for everyday creative people who have lots of ideas, dreams, goals, responsibilities, and just plain things going on; and who may also be a little suspicious of organization. But as...

The Dream of Paris

Is it time to live out one of your dreams—the dream of sketching and painting in Paris? Read on! We must do our creative work right where we are and we mustn’t pine to be somewhere else. If we actually do need to be somewhere else, then we must do what we can to move;...

The Smart Artist

Are you pretty intelligent? And is that a problem for you? Take a look at the fifteen challenges that smart people regularly face! Read more … Here are fifteen challenges that smart people regularly face. Living in a society and a world that disparage smartness....

Art and Genetic Happiness

Once you are struck by the question of whether what you are doing matters, and unless the answer is an immediate and unequivocal yes, you will be stuck with and haunted by that question. So many of the clients I work with, despite the optimistic face they put on the...

What’s Your Next Big Idea?

We’re continually bombarded by minutia—mail soliciting our car insurance and our life insurance dollars, phone calls about changing our phone service or subscribing to the local paper, television coverage of the grosses of the latest hit movies, hundreds of details at...

Should Nostalgia Inform Your Art?

Have you ever thought about using nostalgia to inform your art? Read more! Nostalgia is a powerful emotion that connects us to the sweet and the bittersweet. We all possess a reservoir of special feelings about the toys and games of youth, the smells and sights, the...