Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic

Monica Lee-Henell, an artist friend of mine, has some great advice on how to use Pinterest. She creates a bunch of boards themed around things she’s drawn to, like landscapes, or portraits, or the color yellow. Then she pins like a crazy person in each of the categories! You might go into this thinking “a portrait is a portrait,” but once you’ve cr

I think so much of it is realizing that your experiences are valid. Start by owning your story.

I am someone who draws and paints nearly every day, sometimes multiple times a day, even when I’m not “working” (I also draw when on vacation or at night while I’m watching TV), so taking a few weeks away from my art supplies and studio was a big mental shift.

Carolyn Sewell is famous for saying, “Pleasing everyone is the shortcut to beige.”

MAKE A SCHEDULE AND STICK TO IT To get into a routine of creating, I recommend making a weekly schedule that lays out when and for how long you will work on making art each day.

Finding your voice is one of the most important experiences you will ever have. And the process cannot be rushed. Likewise, it isn’t just something that magically “happens.” Instead, it’s both an exercise in discipline and a process of discovery that allows for—and requires—a lot of experimentation and failure. Most of the time, finding your voice

One of the first tips my former agent, Lilla Rogers, gave to me was that I should give myself assignments when I didn’t have paid work; I should use the time I had to make the kind of work I wanted to get hired to do by clients.

Kate: By diving deep, you’re going to find a rhythm, you’re going to discover patterns, you’re going to discover new ideas, and I’m a firm believer that one project leads to another project leads to another project. Everything is connected,

When we are in the process of finding our artistic voice, we are almost constantly straddling the planes of belonging and independence, of being part of a movement and having our own unique form of expression, of emulating artists we admire and breaking away from them.