Artist Strong Blog
Enjoy interviews and articles about creative process and our inherent creative spirit.Tips and Tricks: Finding Time for Your Art
Do you feel there is never enough time for your art? Today I talk about simplifying your studio to focus less on set up and more on making. Click to Tweet: "Discover this trick to make more time for your art." Be Creatively Courageous: What is ONE small,...
3 Books to get you MAKING
How exactly can you become your best artist self? This is a question I’m investigating this month with others in my challenge #BeCreativelyCourageous. We are talking about success, dedication, and scaffolding our way to our own, unique, specific definitions of growth,...
Gailani Art Retreat in Muscat, Oman
Art does more than change the world: it changes YOU. I’m very fortunate that just before I left Oman, a friend asked me if I’d come with her to a local artist retreat. I’d heard about it since I first moved here, but my own labels and judgements kept me away. I don’t...
Creative Spirit Jenn Conley
Jenn Conley is a professional artist and founder of Artists United For Standing Rock, a not-for-profit fundraising organization, as well as a mom, wife, and caretaker of numerous two and four legged animal friends. Carrie: Hi Jenn! Tell us about Artists United...
A surprising way to quiet your inner critic
Have you ever had the voice of your inner critic judge so loudly, so cruelly, you stop making your art? The other day I was sad to hear from an artist that felt her art was ruined by a series of “bad decisions.” She had a vision of what the finished work should look...
50 Ways to Use Your Unfinished Art
Remember: having unfinished art is a NATURAL, REGULAR, NORMAL part of creative process. After a while, though, that pile of work can start feeling like growing evidence of everything you haven’t done. When you start to feel this way it’s time to cull. It’s time to...
Creative Spirit Charlene Scott
Charlene Scott of Pink & Green Creative lives in Scotland with her husband and 3 children. She paints, doodles, crochets, crafts and designs from her home studio. Charlene loves to work intuitively in a range of different mediums and has a keen interest in...
Tips & Tricks: Create Accountability for Your Art
How can you keep yourself accountable to your art? Many, many artists tell me they don't have enough time. What if time isn't the real problem? What if we struggle instead with holding ourselves accountable to our art hopes and dreams? (Turn up the volume to watch...
Why YOUR unique voice matters
I’ve recently discovered that many artists do not know their own definition of success. And yet, when we have this knowledge and can then take steps toward it, we are closer to serving others through honoring that which fuels us and lights us up. Since I can remember...