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

Making art is an enormously personal experience, no matter your style or subject matter.

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.

Kate: One branch might be an interest in a certain style of illustration. Another branch might be this movie that has stayed with you for five years. Another branch might be all the cool things you collect from thrift stores. Another branch might be a particular interest in a period in history or weird experiences you had as a kid. And then you put

BEGIN ANYHOW:

The truth is, when we first start something, it can feel wholly uncomfortable. It can even feel risky! What if we fail? When we have an idea for what we want to create (perhaps related to whatever gave us the spark and the urge to make something in the first place), the end result we envision is often so far from what we have the skills to do. So w

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

My more limited palette is one of the ways my work is consistent.

Finding ways to honor, appreciate, and enjoy the tedious aspects of your work will help you enormously in your path.

For Tharp, the blank space, and the mystery and the challenge that come with more spontaneous acts of creativity, are exciting.