What’s the risk is a question I should be asking myself more often when fear strikes. One of my greatest fears as a beginning artist is the blank page. Before I even put the pencil to the page thoughts of screwing it up are racing through my brain. I get over it. I put the . . . → Read More: What’s The Risk?
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“And that is why, when it’s time to make a change in my life, I just BEGIN. Even if I’m starting in the wrong place. On the wrong project. I simply BEGIN. ACTION is magical. Somehow, action leads to clarity. Begin somewhere and just pay attention to the results you get. Then, . . . → Read More: It’s All In The Eyes Day three of my Young Authors Workshop was Illustration Day. We met my illustrator friend, Lynne Chapman from the UK, via website. The children saw video of how she goes about illustrating a book and then watched her do an actual page from her studio. Next they used Lynne’s how to draw lessons on her . . . → Read More: Illustration Day – Day 3 This morning I got up and set to work going out to do what I needed to do today along with all the other Bostonians all around me. A friend of mine wrote a blog entitled Finding Perspective that I read just before leaving the house. Not being up here in the city or being . . . → Read More: Gaining Perspective – Day 2 I just got home from my Cape Cod Children’s Writers critique group. Since I’m not writing right now because I’m illustrating, I didn’t bring a piece to share. I brought some of my artwork for the book I’m working on, shared that and sat back to listen carefully to the readings of the night. . . . → Read More: Choose – You Can My writer friend Diane published a new blog on Saturday entitled “Feed the Soul”. It was just a short little post, but it made me stop, and for the last three days, ponder the question she posed. Her question was: “What makes you joyful? What gets you out of your entanglement?” I walked away from . . . → Read More: Speaking Of Joy…. Dreams do that. They lie out there like the waves glinting on the water and move….ever so subtly through the back of my mind. No matter what I’m doing, I’m aware of those dreams, clicking like a wave on the shore, rippling underneath and giving energy and motion to my days. Whether I’m washing . . . → Read More: Dreams Shimmer When new things appear on my radar that require me to put in more spiritual work to deal with them, I tend to focus on one aspect of the situation until the focus becomes my focus and I lose perspective entirely. My illustrating project has taught me much about dealing with the things life throws . . . → Read More: From An Illustrator’s Perspective I brought a few projects with me to NY this weekend and planned to work on them while my husband was at work, but I had one of those days where I just couldn’t settle into either art or writing. “Go shopping. Go shopping.” kept niggling in the back of my mind. I can’t waste . . . → Read More: Out Of The Head There is a a lot talk in the spirituality realm these days about being in the present. This is a hard concept for me. I mean, how hard is it to stay present, when, your, well…present? I pay attention to what I’m doing when I’m doing it, so I’m present, right? I thought so until . . . → Read More: The Here & Now |
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