Why Your Most Powerful Art Can Come From Your Hardest Seasons

When life changes in a big way, art isn’t something to wait on until you feel great. It can be the tool you use to find your way out and…

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Want to improve your art? Share it.

Making art can be hard. But sharing it with others sometimes can be even harder. I think this is because, for some reason, we feel we have to be perfect. But this notion holds us back. And it certainly can stop us from sharing. Sharing, however,  is the very thing…

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Russell Chatham 1939 – 2019

Last Sunday, the extraordinary landscape painter, Russell Chatham passed. He was a writer, avid fly fisherman, and naturalist. But above all else, he was a painter. He grew up in California painting the wild, untamed places of Northern California. He developed his art in Montana and late in his life…

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Hard to start your art back up? Try this.

Yep. This is one of the biggest challenges most artists struggle with… Starting your art again. It is so easy to lose the rhythm of making art. Sometimes it is a big life thing that gets in the way. It can even be a vacation. What about that friend who…

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