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Hidden Connections In Nature
A few weeks ago I made a youtube video called, “What nature can teach us about art”, and in that video I explain the way I see the connection between nature and art. Nature being the outside world, the forests, the trees, the leaves, the animals, the wind, the clouds, the sun, mother earth. And…
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Your Dreams Should Scare You
Do not be afraid. Do not be intimidated by your dreams to the point where you avoid them. Do not be scared away. But be intimated enough to the point where it is a challenge to hurl yourself towards them. Find the balance. If your dreams scare you, then this is a good thing. But…
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Your Solitude is More Important than you think
I’m about to tell you something that only you will ever be able to experience. No one else in the world could ever touch or feel what this thing is. It is exclusive to you and holds a power that nothing else could possibly amount to. It’s your solitude. Your solitude will only ever be…
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About Your Creative Voice
Your creative spirit is like a light ray that shines from within and spreads out into the world. When we see something that we like, that light reflects off of it and shines back into us, into our hearts. The things we like teach us about our creative voice. The things we like reflect this…
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Don’t create your art, remember it.
What if your job in the creative process was not to create the piece from scratch, but to remember it. We’ll go a little deep in this blog post about an idea in art that I feel within my soul at the most core level. This has to do with how our mind works as…
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Your Best Tool as an Artist
No matter what strategies, methods, practices, and skills you adopt within your creative process, please never forget that the most powerful source is within. I feel called to write about this because I believe that sometimes we forget or misplace where the true power in the creative process is coming from. It’s not coming from…
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You Need To Romanticize Your Process
What would life look like if you were in love with your creative process? How would it look if the work didn’t make you anxious or scared? But rather it excited you. I feel like one of the inevitable parts in the artist’s journey is when the creative work starts becoming something that slowly feels…
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It’s a “Day to Day” thing
Did you work on your project today? Do you plan to? Did you work on it yesterday? What actions are you taking day to day to ensure you get your creative work done? As artists, we have our heads in the clouds but can struggle to keep our feet on the ground. By that I…
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How To Spend Your Morning As An Artist
The biggest tool you have as an artist is not your camera. It’s not your pencil. It’s not your canvas. It’s you. Everything starts with you. You are the most powerful and reliable source for all that you create. Every piece of technology that you use, whether it’s a pen or a software, will be…
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How To Get Ideas As An Artist
In order to attract the creative ideas that are always all around us, you have to expand your awareness. I am going to show you how I do this with practical methods and also an exercise that you can do in the morning to set yourself up to receive those ideas all throughout the day. …