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This morning I started searching for weekly art challenges, but didn’t come across anything that called out to me so I returned to reading one of the chapters on discovering a sense of perspective in Walking in this World by Julia Cameron.

One of the sections in this chapters calls you to map out your interests in groups of [5]. So far, I’ve only got four with each prompt, but it’s a start. Also, not all of her prompts call out to me so I created a couple new categories of my own:

I’ve been struggling with personal planners for ages.  I started with this mammoth leather planner that I now use as a portfolio for unfinished soft pastel paintings.  Then I moved on to various computer calendar programs like Outlook.  I even moved on to internet services like Yahoo!.  But this past October, I found [...]

Two original paintings and one fine art print have already sold within this past week! So I’ve updated the Top 10 Holiday gift list:

Stocking Stuffers under $5: Chaos Theory Magnet
A great gift idea for your mom, your grandma, or a special aunt: Hummingbird in Flight Framed Tile
A Blank Journal featuring one of my best [...]

When it comes to living a creative lifestyle, we often know deep down what keeps us going. For me, it’s a myriad of regular activities:

Walking
Keeping lists
Daily Affirmations
Sketching in my pastel journal
Connecting with fellow artists
Keeping an image folder
Treating myself occasionally to new art supplies or books/mags on art
Checking out local art events
Experimenting with new methods [...]

Hmmm…I may have just discovered my new blogging fetish, library project cards, thanks to il Bloggo.

A couple weeks ago, a friend remarked that my art had taken backseat to the daily grind, which indeed it has. But that is not necessary a bad thing unless it takes us years to return back to those pleasures in life that bring a smile to our face.
The challenge then becomes finding the [...]

As someone who is always having creative ideas, I have always struggled with how to keep track those ideas for a rainy day. In the past, I would try to log them in my journals, but over time I would lose track since the ideas were kept in between long winded journal entries. [...]

A list of places & things that I would like to get around to shooting:
1. FOREST
In Florida, we have several beautiful parks, and there is one that I have in mind that has the most beautiful live oaks trees that twist in all these interesting directions, definitely interesting subject matter.
2. YBOR
Ybor is the old Cuban [...]

1. HANGING OUT WITH MY HUSBAND AND CATS
My husband and I are always discovering different ways to spend time together. Our latest project together has been photo shoots to be utilized in art projects. But in the past, it has been as simple as a nightly tea ritual where we would sit and [...]

I’ve mentioned “Artist Dates” in my journal before. It’s a term that Julia Cameron, author of the Artist Way, coined to describe those moments when we take time out of our day to romance our artist side by taking it out on a date. But personally, I think the theory behind the artist date holds [...]