Shawn Petite shares how she found her art soul in mixed media. We talk about Shawn’s love for documenting how she is feeling as part of her creative practice and discuss how Shawn gently dips into her creative practice through small steps that help her connect herself and her art together as she creates. This is all a part of a process of keeping creative momentum and using yourself as inspiration.
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Break Your Own Rules with Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd
I loved chatting to Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd. Vanessa has such a strong, clear creative voice and she proudly and confidently shares that voice with the world. In this episode we talk about the importance of giving yourself permission to break your own rules and get out of your comfort zone. Vanessa shares how she is working on balancing creating art as a teacher and art that is inspiring her and helping her grow as an artist. We also explore what creating art beyond the journal has felt like and what insights have come up for Vanessa as she has explored this new part of her creative journey.
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Nurturing Yourself With Ash Hoffenberg
Ash Hoffenberg is one of our amazing Messians and I loved getting to chat to her for this episode. Ash and I chat about the importance of self-care and how art making can be a big part of that for many of us. Nurturing yourself allows you to go out into the world and be a better human. I loved Ash’s insights and tips for someone starting out on their own creative journey, we even put together a little supply starter kit together.
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Find Your Voice With Jessica Kaschig
In this episode I am chatting to one of our beautiful Messians, Jessica Kaschig. Jessica talks to us about the power of the Artist’s Way and how art helped her through big life decisions and changes. I loved chatting to Jessica about the concept of living with audacity and being true to yourself and how the power of art and community can help you to do this. Watching Jessica grow in confidence in herself and her art over the past few years has been such a delight.
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Trusting the Alchemy of Creating with Betsy Walton
In this episode Betsy Walton shares with us about her creative journey and how she discovered and rediscovered her creative voice. Betsy talks about the importance of having a sense of curious play within our creative process.It is so exciting to hear Betsy share her love for adding a layer of mystery within her art-making by having an openness to being aware of how the piece is developing and responding to what is happening in front of her as she creates.
Making art should be easy. But let’s be honest: Art is messy. (Heck, life is messy!)
Together with me, Caylee Grey, we’ll explore what it REALLY means to be an artist. Practically. Warts and all. So that you can be an artist, today, now, even if you work a day job, have a million and one commitments, and own a cat that likes sitting on your art.
No more excuses. Okay? Okay.
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