Artist Strong Blog
Enjoy interviews and articles about creative process and our inherent creative spirit.How to create worthy Patreon rewards
When you commit to a platform like Patreon you need to take time and consideration to create rewards and goals that interest (hopefully even excite!) your collectors. Today enjoy 4 tips for creating worthy rewards on Patreon. What do people want from you? What kinds...
Creative Spirit Sarah Manning
Sarah Manning is a saxophonist, composer, writer and artist empathist. She fights for creative sustainability by building empathy between artist and fan through performing, writing and speaking. She has released four critically acclaimed albums and is a Posi-Tone...
How to Create Financial Freedom for Artists
As artists we navigate the ever fluctuating income that seems married to being a freelance creative. One tool that can not only make our art more affordable for collectors but also offer us a recurring income is called Patreon. Have you heard of it? In today’s tips...
How Mixed Media Art Relieves Stress
Art is now regularly touted as a vehicle to relieve stress. It’s also seen as a healthy coping mechanism for navigating hard times in our lives. But when the going gets tough, how can we really make art work for us and not be another item on a self-care to do list...
Creative Spirit Maryanne Moodie
Maryanne Moodie is a fibre obsessed maker from Australia who now resides in Brooklyn, NYC. She busily divides her time between designing and creating woven wall hangings, creating beginners weaving kits and teaching sold-out workshops across the world. Maryanne is...
How to Build Skill using Mixed Media
Does mixed media hide an artist’s lack of skill? It can be a go-to crutch for artists seeking to build skill who are afraid to draw from observation and even scarier, show that work to others. “I may not be good at drawing but I can…” And yet, the strongest mixed...
Intuition AND planning help your Art
To what degree should you plan and prepare the art you create on the pages of your altered book? I see the amazing benefits of altered books and art journals as a space for creative play and self-discovery. I don’t see a lot of tools on refining artist skill and voice...
Creative Spirit Rebecca Mitchell Kelada
Rebecca Mitchell Kelada is from a family of artists--painters, sculptors, photographers, and writers--and she holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Washington. In 2011, after her mother, Surel Mitchell passed away, Kelada founded Surel’s Place, converting her...
Tips and Tricks: Preparing the Pages of Your Altered Book
This week I show you a tool I use that you likely have in your home… but don’t use it for art. I find this super helpful for preparing pages of my altered book art. Discover two mediums you can use to prepare your pages and this easy and affordable tool today: “Use...