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"One more week till I can go and get my supplies and then get started. I
really want to get past my fears of failure and of painting something that
others won't find acceptable. Make it all about me and the process.
Have you read "The Artist's Way"?
If you don't have it, beg, steal, borrow or buy it NOW. It's the "must have" book for those trying to reclaim that creative spark within.
Ren
really want to get past my fears of failure and of painting something that
others won't find acceptable. Make it all about me and the process.
Have you read "The Artist's Way"?
If you don't have it, beg, steal, borrow or buy it NOW. It's the "must have" book for those trying to reclaim that creative spark within.
Ren
Julie
Have you read "The Artist's Way"?
If you don't have it, beg, steal, borrow or buy it NOW. It's the "must
have" book for those trying to reclaim that creative spark within.
Ren
Thanks Ren, I checked at our library's website and they have it so I will
definitely read it.
Julie
If you don't have it, beg, steal, borrow or buy it NOW. It's the "must
have" book for those trying to reclaim that creative spark within.
Ren
Thanks Ren, I checked at our library's website and they have it so I will
definitely read it.
Julie
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In a message dated 6/11/04 7:03:00 AM, ahclarke@... writes:
<< i too dream of being an artist, but fear no one will care or want
my art. and i fear that i will let other people opinions about my very
personal art affect how i do art. >>
When you do something so passionately that you don't care if others care, or
want it I think what is likely to happen is that you will infuse the work and
the air around it with that thing that people do care about and want.
The statement above sounds like you were thinking you want to make a living
as an artist. That's not the same as BEING (in your being, in your soul, in
your actions, in your priorities) an artist.
A mundane and unrelated parallel:
Kirby is 17, works at a gaming shop, and when August comes he will have
worked there for four solid years.
Kirby has a friend who has said he really wanted to work there, would like to
work there, has applied, but isn't hired.
Kirby used to volunteer to help there, when he was 12 and 13. He would pick
up chairs at the end of the day, offer to vacuum, help fold calendars for
mailing, run errands. Kirby loved the shop and was helping because he wanted to
be helpful.
His friend declared flatly in a large group of people (I was there) that they
were asking for volunteers for a tournament, but he wasn't going to work for
them for free.
Marty has worked many of those tournaments. They give him store credit and
he gets cards for games he plays. Marty was offered a job, but turned it
down. He didn't want to work where Kirby works. (Makes sense.) Meanwhile, the
other guy who claims to want to do that refuses to actually DO it unless he's
paid.
There's something about peace, contentment and commitment that's alluring,
and it can be apparent in art and music and food prep and bedmaking and, I
guess, game-store customer service.
Sandra
<< i too dream of being an artist, but fear no one will care or want
my art. and i fear that i will let other people opinions about my very
personal art affect how i do art. >>
When you do something so passionately that you don't care if others care, or
want it I think what is likely to happen is that you will infuse the work and
the air around it with that thing that people do care about and want.
The statement above sounds like you were thinking you want to make a living
as an artist. That's not the same as BEING (in your being, in your soul, in
your actions, in your priorities) an artist.
A mundane and unrelated parallel:
Kirby is 17, works at a gaming shop, and when August comes he will have
worked there for four solid years.
Kirby has a friend who has said he really wanted to work there, would like to
work there, has applied, but isn't hired.
Kirby used to volunteer to help there, when he was 12 and 13. He would pick
up chairs at the end of the day, offer to vacuum, help fold calendars for
mailing, run errands. Kirby loved the shop and was helping because he wanted to
be helpful.
His friend declared flatly in a large group of people (I was there) that they
were asking for volunteers for a tournament, but he wasn't going to work for
them for free.
Marty has worked many of those tournaments. They give him store credit and
he gets cards for games he plays. Marty was offered a job, but turned it
down. He didn't want to work where Kirby works. (Makes sense.) Meanwhile, the
other guy who claims to want to do that refuses to actually DO it unless he's
paid.
There's something about peace, contentment and commitment that's alluring,
and it can be apparent in art and music and food prep and bedmaking and, I
guess, game-store customer service.
Sandra
Andy Holly Clarke
hi all
i get this groups email in digest form and rarely make it through reading it
all
i did catch a little about this string of creativity
i too would recommend the artist's way. i actually have it from the library
now. however, i have stopped reading it to read fearless living by rhonda
britten
this book focuses on defining our fears and learning how to deal with them
to live more creatively, and with all our essence.
in a way it is a self help book, but only as much as the artist's way is
too. kwim?
i think fear often holds our creativity and possible our whole selves back -
i know it does for me.
anyway, i definitely need to go back through my emails and read more of this
string. i too dream of being an artist, but fear no one will care or want
my art. and i fear that i will let other people opinions about my very
personal art affect how i do art.
hope some of this makes sense.
holly
i get this groups email in digest form and rarely make it through reading it
all
i did catch a little about this string of creativity
i too would recommend the artist's way. i actually have it from the library
now. however, i have stopped reading it to read fearless living by rhonda
britten
this book focuses on defining our fears and learning how to deal with them
to live more creatively, and with all our essence.
in a way it is a self help book, but only as much as the artist's way is
too. kwim?
i think fear often holds our creativity and possible our whole selves back -
i know it does for me.
anyway, i definitely need to go back through my emails and read more of this
string. i too dream of being an artist, but fear no one will care or want
my art. and i fear that i will let other people opinions about my very
personal art affect how i do art.
hope some of this makes sense.
holly