25 Mar 2011 Comments Off
Zoe Zuniga is an artist studying animation/multimedia art for the web in Berkeley CA. She makes a living teaching pilates and is working to promote vegan permaculture and sustainability projects through writing and visual media.
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18 Mar 2011 Comments Off
I went to a free workshop at the Berkeley Public Library and was inspired to find ways to live the life I really want as a creative person.
Ann Rea is an artist who got tired of sitting in her cubical at a job she did not enjoy. She took her business experience and applied it to her own life. She was able to find an untapped market for her art instead of using a gallery or agent. She did not like the feeling of exploitation and desperation that comes with giving away so much of the profit to a gallery or art agent anddecided to cut out the middle man. Now she makes her living selling her paintings and teaching others how to live as successful artists.
06 Mar 2011 Comments Off
Julia Cameron’s book has really helped me to be more creative. She uses a 12 step model to create a recovery of your creativity. Her tools include keeping “morning pages”. Morning pages are a journal of the subconscious mind that you spew out and get out of the way in order to clean the slate. At least that is how I think of it. Sometimes I come up with great ideas but usually it is just a lot of the things that are not working in my life that come up. This can be a good thing because it lets me know what I need to change.
In the 12 chapters there are exercises that allow you to look at how your creativity might have been stifled. By the time you are done examing the past for clues you might be surprised you have been able to be creative at all. This book is for artists and for anyone who wants to be more creative and less blocked. I is about self acceptance and exploration.