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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

But the truth is that everyone’s story matters, including yours. The fact that you might not think your story matters is actually just part of your story!

And there is no way you can get to where you want to go without making piles of work.

once I started to make art, it was like a floodgate opened. The boring interior life I previously related to was transformed into an inner world so intriguing to me that I couldn’t contain it.