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Finding the way
Watercolor and calligraphy are in themselves not hard – it is the same techniques bundled in different ways. So how do I as a teacher help people with that bundling so that they can be successful? I share 2 pieces of feedback from students and some thoughts.
Finding time for art
Time is our greatest commodity – we cannot make it, we can only preserve or protect it and the waste or misuse of it. Time is finite. And everyone has demands on our bucket of time.
Baby butterflies on vellum
We take out a scoop for family, a scoop from the Bucket of Time for friends, another scoop for work, another one of volunteering. It feels like 3 scoops for house work and tasks… pretty soon the Bucket of Time is pretty close to empty. And still no art or creativity has been scooped out.
My life is crazy right now. If I want time for art I either have to be teaching it, earning it through commissions or giving myself an extra scoop of art time by buying time for lessons or experiences. Somehow, when those committments to others are made, I can then schedule my time and voila! I have time for art through structure. It works for me for where I am right now and how I am scooping out my time. Once I have to do homework and have goals and objects for my own teaching, I have more time for my own art. It works.
So my advise is: if you want to find time to do art, sign up to do art. I would love for you to take my classes but find something that works for you. Do art, sign up for creativity!
The writing is on the wall
I was awarded a grant and the local newspaper published an article on my art and approach to just about all things…. this gets interesting.
Write Properlike
The role of the written word cannot be underestimated in both our business and creative worlds.