Artists and Recovery, Tip 3

by | Mar 30, 2023 | Fine Arts America

Maybe you’ve come to realize that your addiction has gotten the better of you and you decide to enter into recovery via a 12-step program or in some other way. What then? Well, creating itself can prove a threat to recovery. The very act of creating is a voyage into...

Artists and Recovery, Tip 2

by | Mar 24, 2023 | Fine Arts America

Maybe you’ve come to realize that your addiction has gotten the better of you and you decide to enter into recovery via a 12-step program or in some other way. What then? Well, creating itself can prove a threat to recovery. The very act of creating is a voyage into...

Artists and Recovery, Tip 1

by | Mar 16, 2023 | Fine Arts America

Maybe you’ve come to realize that your addiction has gotten the better of you and you decide to enter into recovery via a 12-step program or in some other way. What then? On top of the common challenges that any person experiences in early recovery—the cravings, the...

The More You Present, the Better You Become

by | Mar 10, 2023 | Fine Arts America

[The following is a lesson for writers, but the headline is the same for all creatives: the more you present in public, the better you will become at presenting yourself and your work. Please enjoy!] One winter evening, I find myself in the green room of the beautiful...

Are You Back in the World?

by | Mar 3, 2023 | Fine Arts America

I would see him drawing in pen and ink and colored pencils and sometimes writing in the same oversized sketchbook in which he drew. He would sit at one table at the Owl and the Monkey, on Ninth Avenue in the Inner Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco, and I would sit...

Do Some Smart 2023 Planning

by | Feb 23, 2023 | Fine Arts America

Ready to start planning for the rest of 2023? To begin with, here are five straightforward elements of a daily plan: Start each day with a simple, eloquent plan like “I am painting today.” Create a daily mantra that you use to keep yourself on track. It might be...