Learn how creativity can breathe life into your soul!
When we are young and the desire to love is first awakened in the human soul, most of us fall into a familiar trap: believing that finding a “great love” is the ultimate answer to our deepest human longings. I have experienced this chase in my own life, and I saw it play out vividly …
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Every portrait carries a visible face, but it is the invisible stories woven into the layers that give a painting its soul. When I began working on my Word of the Year painting, Worthy, I knew it needed to be more than an aesthetic expression. It needed to map a deeply personal shift from proving to knowing—a …
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The impish author I’d grown to think an impostor starts to perform again. The magical mystery befuddles me. How can a once prolific practice abate when I paint? I wonder. Then the stirring starts. I’m enamored with the flow and cadence of thoughts transforming into words. With passion and purpose the prose progresses. I’ll never figure …
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In creativity as in life, sometimes feelings of overwhelm call for us to step away. To get fresh perspective. To see our art or circumstances through new eyes. The online Collins Dictionary defines overwhelm: “If something is overwhelming, it affects you very strongly, and you do not know how to deal with it.” The antidote: “The task won't feel so overwhelming if …
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The creative stirring starts. Sleep evades me, so I rise early to write. The Creative Stirring This sense that something is missing. There's more to come. God has other opportunities on the way. My mind mulls over what I read on https://janefriedman.com:Is It a Book? 5 Ways to Test Your Nonfiction Book Idea by Bethany Saltman and …
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When was the last time you felt creative joy? Merideth Hite Estevez presented this question to her Artists for Joy Creative Cluster I recently joined. "Fuel your creative well-being with our supportive community!" A promise Merideth not only makes but supports with what she describes as a "...15-week adventure to experience joy in our creative practice …
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Artist and writer, Diane Bailey, posted a painting on Instagram of a woman with angel’s wings, holding a red rose. The descriptor read: “The Soul of a Woman - and when she believed she was loved, she began to bloom.” When I read this, I instantly remembered a promise the Lord had given me when …
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"Fearless!" The word swirled in my thoughts for weeks before I dared to claim it as my word of the year. Then the painting came: a fierce tiger and determined woman nestled next to one another. The woman draws strength from what the tiger intrinsically possesses, fearlessness! Watch the progression of the painting: https://youtu.be/ouEfRx9MqWM Next …
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I sit and write with Christmas lights twinkling around me. The Christmas trees’ reflections in our picture window reach to the sky, giving the appearance of doubles on the embankment. All is still, so I listen and wait. Tasks for today creep into mind. Hopes for tomorrow aren’t far behind. I love Christmas with its …
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