May 2, 2019 | Art Tutorials, Favorite, Mindfulness
Use these 5 simple methods to fill your sketchbook, gather your ideas, and improve your drawing skills.
Mar 7, 2019 | Art Tutorials, Creative Self-Care, Mindfulness, Paper Cutting
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: When was the last time you felt completely engrossed in your creative process? Lately I’ve been incredibly engrossed in my art, making art with simple materials. I’d like to help you imagine the same for yourself. In your...
Feb 12, 2019 | Creative Self-Care, Mindfulness
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: Here’s what I most want you to know about how to develop your artistic style: you can’t force it. When coaching clients and students tell me they want to develop a style, I suggest that what they need is not a style, but a...
Jan 14, 2019 | Art journaling tutorial, Favorite, Mindfulness
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: One of the most common issues that folks run into when they first start trying to keep an art journal is how to begin an art journal page. Some people have too many ideas, some have none at all, and lots doubt their artistic ability. Art...
Dec 14, 2018 | Art journaling tutorial, Art Supplies, Creative Self-Care, Mindfulness
Dear Wonderful Creative You: I’ve been looking back at what I and my students have accomplished in 2018. This year, I wanted to spend more time with you in “live” online classes. We did that in Spring, Summer, and Fall sessions of Diving Deep....
Nov 8, 2018 | Art Tutorials, Creative Self-Care, Favorite, Mindfulness
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: One of the questions I get asked most is how to art journal when you feel sad. My art journal has been a great source of comfort and self-understanding for years. I’m blessed to be able to share my techniques here. I’m hoping...
Sep 11, 2018 | Art journaling tutorial, Creative Self-Care, Mindfulness
Dear Wonderful Creative You: Tomorrow I am off for my annual art retreat for the next several days, so I want to leave you brimming with ideas for YOUR creative life. Connection with other artists is one of the most nurturing things I do for my creativity. An...
Aug 21, 2018 | Art journaling tutorial, Art Tutorials, Favorite, Mindfulness
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: Join the Inchie Challenge! You’ll get my free Inchie Workbook, and from August 20 – 31st I’ll be sending prompts and inviting you to create small art. For this challenge, we will be creating art that...
Jun 29, 2018 | Art journaling tutorial, Creative Self-Care, Mindfulness
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: Our creative lives are made up of lots of little acts of creativity – the way you arrange the flowers, the card you made for your mother, the silly poem you wrote with your nephew, or the art journal page you worked on while waiting...
Jun 20, 2018 | Creative Self-Care, Mindfulness, Spirituality
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: Since last fall, I’ve been participating in a practice called authentic movement. It’s a movement-based mindfulness practice and active imagination process. I’ve been inspired by all of the parallels...
May 4, 2018 | Art Tutorials, Mindfulness
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: In my Diving Deep class, we focus on learning to dance between intuition and technical skill. The skill we have been focusing on this week, blind and semi-blind contour drawing, is one that can really call up the inner critic....
Dec 21, 2017 | Art Tutorials, Mindfulness
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: The last days of the year are a time for most of us to take a deep breath and sink deeply into the couch after the holiday craziness. It’s also a great time to do some introspective art. Rather than endlessly scrolling...
Sep 20, 2017 | Creative Self-Care, Mindfulness
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: I’m coming to you fresh from my first Squam Art Retreat on Squam Lake in New Hampshire. As often happens with such experiences, I’ve arrived home inspired, slightly disoriented, and wanting to carry what I felt on...
Jul 20, 2016 | Creative Self-Care, Favorite, Mindfulness, Spirituality
I’ve been trying to find the words to describe why working abstract, with no plan, and letting go of the outcome is such a mindful, exciting, and yet calming experience all at once. It’s one of my main forms of creative self-care these days, and...
May 16, 2016 | Art Tutorials, Creative Self-Care, Mindfulness
[bctt tweet=”It’s amazing how making a tiny art piece can help you with such big feelings. “] The BIG power of working small is that it gives you permission to experiment. If you’d like to learn more about working this way and finding your...
Mar 11, 2016 | Creative Self-Care, Mindfulness
(If the Soundcloud app pops up asking you to download, you can just “X” out of it and continue playing the podcast here.) You can now access the replay from Art Journaling Freedom. I’ve created a classed called, Freeing the Muse. You...
Nov 24, 2015 | Art Tutorials, Mindfulness
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. You don’t need to worry about gifts or extraneous obligations, and all the focus is all on family, food, and all the good things happening in your life. In the United States, it’s also the most widely celebrated holiday...
Nov 18, 2015 | Mindfulness, Spirituality
You’ve probably heard that controlling your breathing, and practicing mindfulness are great ways to beat stress. But what does that really mean? How does a mindful breath help you psychologically and biologically? A Simple Breathing Technique The Breath Project,...
Aug 6, 2015 | Art Tutorials, Creative Self-Care, Mindfulness
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: I love all the challenges, but of course today’s challenge is my favorite, because I want to encourage you to get in touch with you inner artist. Today is going to be a fun day. We’ve got some 5-minute art prompts for you to...
Jul 1, 2015 | Art Tutorials, Mindfulness, Spirituality
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: I’m so excited to introduce you a very special artist, and now friend, Maria Mercedes Trujillo A. I first became aware of Maria’s gorgeous work through Pinterest as I searched for mandalas and nature-based art projects....
May 23, 2015 | Art Tutorials, Mindfulness
Dear Wonderful, Creative You: A few months ago I did a post called Can You Meditate Through Art? where I shared a tutorial on mandalas using art as a way to meditate. So many of you told me how inspiring it was, I’d like to talk more in depth about...