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Dear Wonderful, Creative You:

Welcome to MINDFUL ART STUDIO®. I am Amy and I’m here to show you how to paint from your heart and soul and play with art again.

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Trusting Your Ideas

Dear Wonderful Creative You, One of the most important questions you can ask yourself is why...

Fine Line Flower Tutorial

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: Over the last six years, presenting roughly 40 different patterns...

Developing Your Artistic Voice

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: This quarter in The Gathering, we are focused on developing your...

Even If You Think You’re Not Creative

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 to...

Facing the Empty Space: Practicing Mindfulness Through Art

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 between the movement...

Trusting the Process: Notes from an Intuitive Art Journaling Class

May 31, 2018 | Art Tutorials

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: I've been having the most wonderful spring, spending time with my students in the Diving Deep intuitive art journaling class. As often happens, I'm learning almost just as much as the students as I teach. I'm so excited to be able to...

Let’s Make Perfectly Imperfect Art

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....

Blending Art & Writing In Your Intuitive Art Journal

Apr 5, 2018 | Art journaling tutorial, Art Tutorials

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: I've been thinking about how to give you some of the goodies that I've been developing for my Diving Deep: Intuitive Art Journaling class, and I've got a sweet idea. The PDF that I'm developing for the class is THOROUGH. I love being able...

Don’t Make Art, Make Marks

Mar 9, 2018 | Creative Self-Care

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: Happy March! I've been deep in content creation mode, and I cannot wait to spill the beans about my new class! It's going to be such an adventurous and beautiful experience for so many of you, who will dive deeper than ever before...

What Your Art and Your Coffee Have in Common

Jan 31, 2018 | Art Tutorials, Creative Self-Care

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: I've been thinking a lot about what empowers us to create. It's slightly different for each of us, but one thing that artists of all kinds consistently talk about is trusting the process. What exactly does that mean? When you first start...

Making Each Day More Art-Ful

Jan 9, 2018 | Creative Self-Care

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: As I reflected on my goals for this new year, one thing was very clear: In 2018, I want to make my days more art-filled, everyday. I've got a few ideas on how I'll be making each day more art-ful, and I am excited to share them...