by admin-eric | Sep 6, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Title: “The Sacred Spiral Mindful Drawing Exercise” by Rosa Phoenix Exercise purpose: This intuitive drawing and writing exercise uses the ancient symbol of the spiral to mindfully bring embodied awareness to the concept of expansion and contraction, reaching outside...
by admin-eric | Aug 30, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Ambition Without Grandiosity By Rahti Gorfien Ambition Without Grandiosity is an exercise that helps creatives better understand why ambition is a good thing, as it helps us persist even after failures. At the same time, it helps creatives understand why ambition...
by admin-eric | Aug 23, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Seeing is Believing By Liz Verna ATR, LCAT Exercise Purpose: to tease out subconscious beliefs that block or sabotage creative energy. Exercise Description: Creatives are encouraged to write freely, uncensored and in a stream of consciousness, about a particular...
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...
