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A simple question to shift your art—and your life

Hola Everyone, welcome back to the Art2Life vlog! I’m still here in Mexico, and I’ve got something really special to share with you today. It’s a question I ask myself…

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Maintaining Connection in Difficult Times

The news can feel heartbreaking. I try to live and teach that to keep making our best art, we need to keep our focus on the internal instead of the external news. Paying attention to how we are feeling, what inspires, and what brings us alive is truly helpful. However,…

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Staying at the Helm in Your Practice

There’s a commercial aspect to art-making that can be a challenge. Once as an illustrator, I worked on a project that was so lucrative I couldn’t turn it down. However, the art direction was so specific and outside my taste that I ended up making something awful. Though the money…

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Connecting your Art to your Life

Connecting your Art to your Life

There’s an old shipyard near my studio. It’s a place where I find beautiful patinaed colors and shapes amongst all the worn and broken pieces of boats. What’s so cool is that these things relate to my art. Going here strengthens this connection and gives me inspiration for my art….

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