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Visual Journal Practice: Day 23

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Process as Self-Care

As 2013 turns into 2014 my mind finds its way to thinking about caring for the self. I hear a lot of people talking about their New Year Resolutions, and I’ve noticed a couple of things. The first...

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Process AND Product AND a gift!

Hello Creatives! There’s only 1 week left to register for a five-week hands-on journey where you will experience intuitive process painting, explore the principles of design, playfully experiment with...

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Let’s talk about Fear

True confessions time. I’ve been dealing with a lot of FEAR lately. It’s been stressing out my capacitors and bringing me down. It’s causing stress-induced eczema, anxiety, self-doubt, general...

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Dandelion Pieces – Noticing the details

Dandelion Pieces, sketchbook page, ink on paper “Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”  ~ Georgia...

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Slow start

  morning contemplations Notes from my studio yesterday: Getting a slow start. My body and mind just won’t be rushed into activity. And as I feel the beginnings of self-judgment and recriminations...

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Discomfort is a compass

Discomfort sometimes points the way… In intuitive process painting, you find that there are all sorts of ways that your intuition/inner wisdom communicates with you. Sometimes it’s through curiosity,...

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Power of Permission

It never ceases to amaze me how much can be learned and deeply transformed with the simple tools of paint and paper and the practice of intuitive process painting. That’s why I’m so passionate about...

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More thoughts on Permission

some of my recent experiments   So many lessons to learn from the process, and from teaching it – and to RE-learn, again and again. Another thing about permission? I have to remember that it applies to...

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Beginner’s Lessons

In the spirit of my last post about permission to be a beginner, I allowed myself to follow along on a beginner’s painting tutorial that caught my eye the other day. (I’m also getting more and more...

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Painting and Harry Potter’s Liquid Luck

  Since the very sad news of Alan Rickman’s death in January of this year, I’ve been re-reading J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of books. It’s been very enjoyable to dive into that wonderfully...

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Announcing THE WHOLE ARTIST

The Whole Artist: Spring 2016 Dates: 9 Saturdays, April 2nd – Jun 4th, 2016 (no class on May 21st) In order to assure that each student gets personal, individualized attention, space is very limited....

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The Whole Artist: Reclaiming a Sense of Safety

As I begin teaching my new course The Whole Artist, as ever, I’m finding myself reminded that one of the most challenging things about creating art, or anything really (a painting, a dance, writing...

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Experiencing painting as a loving healing practice

In my last blog post I shared some of the benefits I enjoy from the practice of intuitive process painting. And during the recent weekend painting intensive I held at Painted Crow, I experienced a new...

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