by admin-eric | Jul 12, 2013 | Fine Arts America
Most artists experience at least some resistance getting to the canvas, in part because creating can feel risky. This resistance is of course mental – but it is also has a physical part! Always remember the physical part of dealing with resistance, especially if you...
by admin-eric | Jul 5, 2013 | Fine Arts America
How do you find your artistic voice? Where did it get lost? Read more! Very often a new coaching client will lament the fact that she “hasn’t found her painting style yet” or “hasn’t found her artistic voice yet.” She looks at her paintings and maybe likes them well...
by admin-eric | Jun 28, 2013 | Fine Arts America
People in the arts often find themselves wanting and needing to collaborate. These collaborations sometimes work beautifully and sometimes bring out the worst in the collaborators. It isn’t so easy when two or more individuals, each of whom has opinions, a vision, ego...
by admin-eric | Jun 22, 2013 | Fine Arts America
Today someone sent me a link to a website service where you can create a boilerplate artist statement in half-a-minute. You just pick a genre or two and words appear for you to copy. Say you pick “abstraction.” Here in part is what pops up: “By applying abstraction,...
by admin-eric | Jun 14, 2013 | Fine Arts America
We cause our own distress if we magnify the difficulty of our tasks. Our tasks are already real: there is no need to magnify them. Our language should not make hills into mountains. Making mountains out of hills is a habit to avoid. Refusing to add incendiary language...
by admin | Jun 7, 2013 | Fine Arts America
This past week I taught a weeklong writing workshop at Esalen (on the Big Sur coast of California). Some of the writers in the room got as much as a quarter of their current book written—because they sat in their chairs and wrote! There is simply no substitute for...
