A Day in the LIFE of Learning to LIVE SELF FULFILLMENT: Day 841

Today I woke up at around 7:30am. This gave me about 1 hour to have my morning coffee, prepare my lunch and get dressed and leave for work. I was out the door at around 8:40am. I decided on no music and no radio in the car on the way to my carving studio this …

Realizing My PURPOSE in Life Is NOT My ART – An Artists Journey To Life: Day 840

  One of the challenges I am currently facing in my life at the moment is giving myself purpose throughout my day. A lot of the time I am feeling very uninspired, lethargic and resisting doing anything including getting out of bed and facing that moment where I am going to have to make a …

When My Passion Becomes My Burden – An Artists Journey To Life: Day 827

How do I not do art? This seems like a strange question but here me out. I have struggled with this point over the years. Today I decided that I would NOT go into my studio and paint even though my logical mind tells me this is the best way to ensure productivity with my …

Simply MY Best – An Artists Journey To Life: Day 826

For a long time I wanted to be ‘The Best’, and this programming was formed quite young. I wanted to be the best at hockey, I wanted to be the best at art, I wanted to be the best. When I look at this idea now of ‘being the best’ it does make sense in …

Forgetting To SEE MYSELF in my Passions – An Artists Journey To Life: Day 819

I thought I would take a moment and sit down here to do some writing and share what I have been up to lately. I have recently started putting more time towards developing some acrylic paintings. Most or much of my focus these days goes towards developing my art business. So a big point for …

Being Creative in a Marketable World – An Artist Journey To Life: Day 776

I have spent the last 3 and half years working Full-Time as an Artist! That’s pretty cool. I have really enjoyed it and throughout that time have encountered some interesting challenges. Although I have been “making a living” doing art for the last 3.5 years, before that I spent a great deal of time creating …

Creating The ‘KILLER’ Whale – An Artists Journey To Life: Day 753

  The newest sculpture I am working on at the moment is of an Orca Whale. One thing I like to do is to research the animals that I make carvings of. So with this one, since I have never carved an Orca which is also referred to as a Killer Whale, I decided I …

Introducing New Words into Art and Self Creation – An Artists Journey To Life: Day 752

The other day I was admiring some artwork by one of my favorite life painters (John Singer Sargent) and I wondered to myself if this artist had ever written anything about his techniques of how to paint as surely I could learn something from this. I ended up finding an article put together by someone …

Moving out of Fear and Into Application – An Artists Journey To Life: Day 743

So recently I had a look at a Fear I have that has been existing within me for sometime. This fear, is in relation to my current profession where I work as an artist, which has always been a passion of mine. Art has always been something that I have wanted to do in my …

Fear of Drawing In Public – An Artists Journey To Life: Day 739

Today, I went out to a coffee shop to do some drawing. I used to do this in the past but is something that I haven’t done much of in recent years. When I arrived I noticed that it was pretty busy, which normally is a good thing because then there is lots of people …