Making Time for Art

Making Time for Art, An Attitude Adjustment

Making Time for Art involves our core beliefs, developed over a lifetime. We’ve heard you need to be born with talent, artists are starving, you have to live near the art scene, or you have to have a strong art education.

Teachers, friends, parents, books, and media set us up with fearful, non productive attitudes about art. Plus, negative beliefs, if said often enough, become automatic killer responses to our creative life. After all, doing art questions our basic self-worth.

Do you remember who did this to you? One teacher said, “get married, have babies”, while I wanted to have a teaching career. Common beliefs said the boys needed to get the A’s since they’d have to have careers, and support families. However, as a single parent for 8 years, I was grateful I followed my heart, and could provide a life, and pay the bills.

We accept athletes need ‘practice’, as well as musicians, to become ‘good’. Yet we expect our own art to be perfect, flawless, a masterpiece every time. Why is that?

Fear is a natural part of the creative process. Christine Nishiyama

Making Time for Art is the key. Let’s get some positive energy flowing. Doing art is about the fun process, not the judged outcome. Also, I know I’ll improve if I just practice. Art is a learned skill. Small projects are as good as big passionate ones. Curiosity drives me as I play without a desired outcome. Therefore, doing Art I either Win or Learn. It’s all good.

In addition, small sparks of doing art, or anything, is the best way to learn. Set up a studio, where you can return easily, supplies ready, allowing you to go and play anytime. The time in between lets the creative process assimilate deeper. Inspiration only comes in the doing of it.

So accept we’re all in this challenging doubtful place together. You are an artist if you are making art. Take baby steps often to get really good. Breaks are good for art making. There is no perfect, just your unique mark. Finally, doing art makes you more present, a better person, more relaxed, with inner peace. Who doesn’t want that?

What stops you from doing art? How do you get started again? Let’s talk about this below.

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