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Find Direction in Your Artwork: Where to Start When You are Confused, Overwhelmed, and Lost

Two prominent things stand out to me when I think about practicing art and creating a body of work—building my skills to achieve my vision and understanding and communicating the concepts, subjects, themes, and ideas or topics in the artwork. Both require supporting myself through feelings like confusion, overwhelm, and loss to find direction in my artwork. These feelings can be paralyzing and immobilizing. And they can be overcome with a few practices that provide clarity on what comes next.

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What is a Creative Practice: Building an Unstoppable Way of Making Art

From a young age, I learned very quickly that there were so many ways to look at creativity. And so many of those ways came down to individualism. That is the way you perceive the world and the way you process the world. Yet, the subject of creativity is so vast. And it can be just as expansive to identify a way of working - a creative practice - that doesn’t hinder your originality but instead elevates it.

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Creative Mantras That Are Living With Me Through My Artist Winter Season

I never really understood how creative mantras could be incorporated into my daily art practice until I learned how lonely practicing art can feel some days. Yes, I am a part of a creative community that I converse with daily and I have a creative mentor that helps me align with myself quarterly. Yet, for the most part, I work alone in my studio which results in plenty of personal conversations on a daily basis.

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Preparing for the Artist’s Winter Season

The Artist’s winter season is a time for deep nurturing. It’s a parameter of time, completely determined by you, to turn inward and nourish your creative foundation. Leaning into a creative season offers you to align with your current circumstances, intentions, feelings, and needs.

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Free Workbook—Trust Your Creative Practice

Trust comes from understanding any given situation and having confidence in the outcome. You can build a loose routine that helps you anticipate the future using creative seasons. It gives you the tools to know your creative season is focussed and your nurturing season is rejuvenating.

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Embracing Creative Seasons; A Fresh Look at the Creative Process

Growing into an artist is different today than it was just a handful of years ago. Artists no longer just assume the role of lead creative but also might take on copywriting, email design, website design, content creation, shipping, handling, customer inquiries. Over time, and even when you don’t realize it, it’s easy to lose touch with your creativity or forget that creativity has a natural ebb and flows.

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Setting Up A Studio That inspires Creativity

Slowly drifting into the new year, my studio set up shifted as furniture fell into new spaces. I spent time culling through the old and situating collected pieces intentionally — that included the artwork I displayed, the furniture I held onto, and the books that have enlightened me. I created a space that I am excited to belong and continue to work through the stories of my materials. How do you find that warmth in your own studio?

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Stepping into the Artist You Want to be

Outside of busy happenings in your day to day life, you get to divulge in an artistic practice daily. In this practice, you give yourself permission to be who you know you really are. You free your mind and let your imagination come to the forefront. This is your opportunity to step into life for yourself where you are your most amazing self and you suppress fear and inadequacy.

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A Decade of Art

The end of this year will mark one decade as an artist. Over these last ten years I can confirm that I created a lot of work — some really great pieces, and some not so great pieces. Exploring my work taught me a lot about myself, those around me, and this planet, Earth.

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Creative Musings—Melissa Jenkins

A ray of sunshine. Nothing could describe this human any better. So full of energy and enthusiasm for the free will of creating. The fourth person I shared a conversation with was someone that I followed since my beginning days on instagram. It was so wonderful to finally connect.

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Creative Musings—Julie Kim

There was a real sense of calm when it came to the third conversation I shared. After having multiple interactions over natural earth pigments, I couldn’t wait to dive into a deeper conversation and share a language for the Earth.

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Creative Musings—Melissa Parman

My first conversation was shared with someone who has quickly become a really great friend of mine. At the beginning of the year, I slowly began to let people into my studio practice by sharing my process on Instagram live. It is a very raw and a very vulnerable step for me. One day out of the blue, this amazing soul reached out, sharing her thoughts and joy in seeing the process. Once the live was over, she quickly messaged me and our conversation flourished from there.

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How to Successfully Create a Studio Practice and Follow It

Stepping into your studio should wake something inside of you. You should feel energized, motivated, inspired, curious, joyful, and peaceful. You should effortlessly move throughout your creative practice without question or hesitation. Working in this manner is the definition of creating a studio — habitual — ritual and when this happens these emotions come in abundance.

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Elizabeth Suzann x Lauren Sauder

I’m so excited to finally share that while I spend my days working through my 100 day project, I am letting my imagination run wild on a collaboration with Elizabeth Suzann! Since moving to Nashville two years ago, Elizabeth Suzann quickly caught my attention as a brand/fashion label working to bring quality over excess to their consumer. Always made with 100% natural materials, their clothing celebrates sustainability + simplicity, made for women who want their clothing pieces to live with them.

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Rekindle Your Friendship With Creativity

Do you every create and get completely immersed the process? I’m referencing those moments that you realize you are completely in tune with yourself as the outside world becomes quiet. I refer to these as my slow studio moments and I believe that you can cultivate a practice where these moments are in abundance.

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