by admin-eric | Aug 16, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Draw Your Way Forward By Rachel Marsden Sometimes when we have a challenge we can get stuck in trying to ‘think’ our way out of it. Using image-making and metaphor as a form of problem-solving can help us step out of our default way of thinking and open up new...
by admin-eric | Aug 9, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Flip-it! A playful way to bring awareness to internal self-talk By Angela Terris Left unchecked, unhelpful self-talk can bring creative self-doubt, self-criticism, performance anxiety and procrastination. This step-by-step exercise uses a simple process to raise...
by admin-eric | Aug 3, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Move yourself! An exercise for artists to move through resistance. By Louise Lohmann Christensen When feeling resistance (anxiety) to working on your project, you are being asked to enter this feeling instead of running away, by avoiding the work. Give yourself at...
by admin-eric | Jul 24, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Rituals provide a simple way to shift energies as you move between creating or performing and daily life or from one type of task to another. Ritual is not a word we use often in the 21st century. We’re too busy juggling our different commitments, multi-tasking,...
by admin-eric | Jul 19, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Our creative process is an ever-evolving, living being. It requires just as much attention, care and love as we do. Most of us create because we have an unquenchable inner desire. When that desire is muted it can cause stress, anxiety, low mood, fractiousness and...
by admin-eric | Jul 12, 2019 | Fine Arts America
The following is another exercise in the Creativity Exercises That Work! series. This one is offered by Litza Bixler: THRESHOLDS is an exercise meant to help creative people acknowledge, embrace and utilize liminality. WHAT is liminality? The concept of liminality was...
