Hi Everyone, Starting a new piece can be a bit like traveling to someplace new without a map – you may know a little about where you’re going, but without directions it will take you longer than it should to arrive. With that in mind, when I begin a painting, I find...

Hi everyone, It's incredibly gratifying to finish a painting. Seeing everything completed and in the right place - it's like coming home at the end of a long journey. There's just one thing left to do: the signature. Now, not every artist signs their work, which is...

The process of making authentic art actually begins before you even start. What you choose to look at, think about and even remember is ultimately what makes your art yours. In other words, what you put in affects what you create. Especially when making Art. This is...

Is it hard to choose the right colors when creating your art? I used to really struggle with this. I would spend a ton of time changing colors and in the end the colors I ended up with were not really any better. And then I started choosing colors in a different way....

Our art is really just a sequence of choices. A series of “Yes I like this”, or “No, I don’t like that” decisions. In the end it is all about discernment. To get good at this we need to practice. Not just in our art but also in our life. Discernment is the primary...

Hi, for the past 2 days I have been talking about Design because the Art2life Free Workshop has started! Go here to grab your spot! We just started with lesson 1 Design and have 3 to do over the next week. Today I am talking about the importance of seeing the 30,000ft...

Fear holds us back in our art. But not all fear is the same. Knowing which kind of fear you have is important to discern. Most fears come from not knowing the answers. Uncertainty in life and art conjures up a little fear almost every time. And this is a good thing....

There is something cool about garage sales. There are so many disparate things and all are thrown on afew tables on someone’s front lawn. You never know what you might find amongst all this person’s stuff. People sell all kinds of things. There seems to be no rhyme or...

Sometimes, to make a big change in your art, all you need is a small, one in your thinking. I was reminded of this when recently being shown how to find mushrooms in the forest. Watch the video below and let me show you... Like the wide awareness of an owl perched...

Hi everyone, Once we begin making our art, everything changes. It can so much that sometimes our art ends up very different than intended. The reason this occurs is because once the art is underway, it is super easy to forget the essential feeling we had when we...