by admin-eric | Sep 18, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Fused Creative Blocks It’s raining outside. You’re tired. You “just don’t feel like it”. It’s easy to let our creative juices go astray or to set them aside for another day. But if one day goes by and then the next, it can be hard to be doing the creative work we...
by admin-eric | Sep 13, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Alphabet to the Rescue By Saundra Alexis Heath Alphabet to the Rescue is 3 exercises used alone or in combination to help creatives deal with creative anxiety. Exercise description: 1. Deep Breathing – Clients are instructed to take 26 deep Alphabet breaths. One...
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...