Artist Strong Blog
Enjoy interviews and articles about creative process and our inherent creative spirit.Exploring Resistance with Wax Resist
Some people feel silly when asked to participate in "children's games." It makes them feel awkward and uncomfortable. In fact, it appears as if someone asked them to eat an unusual dish for their palette, or to smell something particularly fragrant. Why? Why are we...
Creative Spirit Eli Trier
Eli Trier is an Artist and Author who travels the world writing, drawing and making gorgeous picture books for grown-ups about everything from gratitude to productivity. She spends her days exploring ideas, messing around with paint and counting her lucky stars. Her...
What is an Anti-Creative Mindset?
Often we are told that our desire to be creative is unimportant, or less valuable than other obligations and responsibilities in our lives. Through dialogue or omission, most people I know have faced someone spouting “would-be advice” to maintain the status quo....
Creative Spirit Monika Proffitt
Monika Proffitt is an installation artist, writer and entrepreneur. In her former life she worked in arts administration as a grant maker and in social services as a counselor to mentally ill homeless people. Proffitt’s installations have been exhibited throughout the...
Digital Theft and Art
I remember how wary I felt about posting my artwork online. Will people like it? What if I get bad comments? What if people tell me my work sucks? Navigating fears of rejection are difficult. This alone prevents many, many artists from sharing their work with the...
Creative Spirit Sara Riddle
Sara Riddle is a professional pet photographer who has been based in the Northern Virginia, DC area, USA. Her two dogs/muses/loves of her life, Tater Tot and Kiki, inspired her to start to her business, Photography by Sara Riddle over 6 years ago. Sara specializes in...
How to Numb Your Creativity
We use technology today as a social crutch. And by choosing to do so, we destroy our quiet moments of creative insight. Lines in grocery stores. Waiting at a restaurant for a friend. Dining alone. Waiting for friends at the bar while they go to the washroom. Sitting...
Creative Spirit Julie Lewthwaite
Julie Lewthwaite has over twenty years’ experience as a professional writer. She is a published author of non-fiction and fiction (the latter as Julie Morrigan), and a member of the Society of Authors in the UK. She has worked as a freelance writer and editor for the...
Art Activity: Disconnecting to Reconnect
Does Staying Connected Keep us Disconnected? This month I seem to be writing in a theme of sorts. It’s about our use and abuse of social media, how we utilize our tablets and smartphones to cure social anxiety or awkwardness, some consequences of which can actually be...