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Dear Wonderful, Creative You:

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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...

Playful Journaling: Illustrating with Paint Blobs and Gel Pens

Nov 30, 2016 | Art Tutorials

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: I have been enjoying illustrating with paint blobs so much, I'm super excited to share it with you. Over the last year or so, I've been exploring a lot of the possibilities of high flow liquid acrylic paint. I never realized what a...

Painting Through Grief with Joy Simon

Nov 18, 2016 | Creative Self-Care

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: Today is the last day in the Creative Self-Care interview series, and in a way, I've saved the most powerful story for last. Joy Simon is an artist who I've known through the Mindful Art Studio community for a few years now. She is a...

Creating Beyond Limitations with Barbara Shelton

Nov 17, 2016 | Creative Self-Care

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: Today's interview is with Barbara Shelton, an amazing artist who has used art through recovery from a serious injury to her body and soul. I think her relationship with art, the inner critic, and her need to create will resonate with you....

Defining Your Life Through Art Journaling with Vanessa Oliver-LLoyd

Nov 16, 2016 | Creative Self-Care, Spirituality

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: We have arrived at day three of our interview series and I'm thrilled to introduce you to Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd. I met Vanessa several months ago when she took my online class, Freeing the Muse. Her passion for art and the courage she has...

Using Photography to Escape Darkness with Cynthia Shepard

Nov 15, 2016 | Creative Self-Care

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: This is part of an interview series on members of the Mindful Art Studio community who have used art as self-care. You can find all the interviews in this series: Day 1: Finding the Courage to Create with Guylaine Morin Day 2: Using...

Finding the Courage to Create Again with Guylaine Morin

Nov 14, 2016 | Creative Self-Care

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: Each day this week I'll be bringing you an interview with an artist from the Mindful Art Studio community. These women are just like you. They will share how, despite the voices of self-doubt, they use paint, words, photography, music,...

How to Get Inspired to Create

Oct 24, 2016 | Creative Self-Care, Spirituality

Hello Wonderful, Creative You: I recently picked up Big Magic* by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Did you catch her podcast interview with Krista Tippet at On Being?) I was excited to hear her talking about how to get inspired to create, and the connections between her...

Playing with Heart: The Beauty of Imperfection

Oct 3, 2016 | Creative Self-Care

The Beauty of Imperfection Dear Wonderful, Creative You: In today's edition of the You Are an Artist Podcast, I'm thrilled to be talking with fiddler, step dancer, singer-songwriter virtuoso: April Verch. We are talking about the beauty of imperfection in...