by Carrie | Develop Your Unique Artist Voice
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...
by Carrie | Art Marketing, Build Your Skill
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...
by Carrie | Why do the Arts Matter?
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...
by Carrie | How to be An Artist
Elissa Nesheim is a professional watercolor artist living and working in Northern California. Inspired by long drives across the hills and prairies of her first home, South Dakota, her watercolor landscapes are an impression, a feeling of the natural world. As a lover...
by Carrie | Develop Your Unique Artist Voice
There’s a problem that comes with aiming HIGH and dreaming BIG. Sometimes you don’t make it. I know the rejection you can feel when you apply to 10 MFA programs, like the woman in Episode 204 of Season Two of Big Magic, who was refused from all of them. When I...
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