You have an idea. It is bold, untested, possibly brilliant. It might fail. It might change everything. And you are frozen. Or perhaps you are the opposite: you leap at every new idea, start projects with abandon, and only later realise you have scattered your energy across fifteen dead ends. Continue reading Creative Risk-Taking: How Different Archetypes Approach Uncertainty

Daily writing promptWrite about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently?View all responses The Dream I Didn’t Chase… But Maybe I Still Am You know that thing people say? “Follow your dreams. They know the way.” Yeah, well.Mine knew the way but forgot to leave a map. 😞 The Action I Didn’t Take (Because Fear Is a Full-Time Job) I wish I had done it…

An Interview with Kelly Marie Carlin-McCall (Part Four)

Interviewer: Scott Douglas Jacobsen Numbering: Issue 13.A, Idea: Outliers & Outsiders (Part Nine) Place of Publication: Langley, British Columbia, Canada Title: In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal Web Domain: http://www.in-sightjournal.com Individual Publication Date: March 22, 2017 Issue Publication Date: May 1, 2017 Name of Publisher: In-Sight Publishing Frequency: Three Times Per…

Little boxes waiting to be finished in a 3D piece

I don’t know where I came across this phrase: “holding the tension,” but when I saw it I was in the middle of trying to figure out a title for my solo show at a local gallery (Blue Lily Atelier) in October.

I was writing down everything that popped into my head: seeking stasis; fault lines and fractures; disrupted paradise; lurking on the edge;…

The problem with being consistent in artmaking

color pencil sketch from my sketchbook

  Being consistent doesn’t necessarily go along with exploring different processes and ideas.

I have a show opening in a few weeks, and I’m trying to finish up a couple of pieces to fit with the ones I have already painted. Being faced with the issue of consistency in the work, and wanting to reject it AS an issue (art critics, beware!), I waited a long…

The What and the Why

oil pastel from my sketchbook

There’s a post that popped up on my Facebook page that struck a chord for me.

It’s a clip from Michael Jr. Comedy.  He’s talking about the underlying passion of what we do in our lives—what drives us, interests us, motivates us, makes us do what we do—and letting that underlying passion appear in the outcomes.

The “what” and “why” example in the clip applies so well…