The Painter’s Mind You Need

by | Apr 10, 2015 | Fine Arts America

Creating depends on having a mind quiet enough to allow ideas to bubble up. Living a successful, healthy life as an artist requires that your self-talk align with your goals and your aspirations. Your job is to quiet your mind and extinguish negative self-talk. These...

Are You a Painter Who Writes?

by | Apr 4, 2015 | Fine Arts America

Many visual artists also write or want to write. Nothing could be more natural: someone interested in expressing herself, sharing her vision, and having a voice is likely to want to manifest those desires in all the ways available to her, painting and writing being...

Change Your Mood With One Magic Sentence

by | Mar 25, 2015 | Fine Arts America

It is possible to change your relationship to your moods—and over time change your moods themselves. You accomplish this by learning how to lead with your life purposes and by making the decision that your life purposes are going to trump your moods. That is, you make...

Are You An Overweight Artist?

by | Mar 19, 2015 | Fine Arts America

It is hard to pay attention to everything in life – to our art, to our career, to all of our other responsibilities … and to our eating. There are many reasons for our preoccupation with food, unhealthy eating patterns, and general insatiability. An important reason,...

Five Meaning Opportunities

by | Mar 13, 2015 | Fine Arts America

Making art is no doubt one of your primary meaning opportunities. But for a rich and complete life, human beings need multiple meaning opportunities—a full menu of meaning opportunities. Here are five to consider. One. Service Being of help feels meaningful. It is a...

Shared Studio Blues

by | Mar 6, 2015 | Fine Arts America

Say that you have a studio mate and that you get along pretty well with her. Her paintings look nothing like yours, so you aren’t competing; she isn’t chatty; she has no habits that particularly annoy you. But then one day she comes over to your side of the studio,...