Cinnamon Pink

Art Every Day Month & Choosing Creativity

Here is my Art Journal page for the fourth day of Art Every Day Month  in November 2013.

Via the TalentHouse site, I discovered this post written by Melanie Sklarz - Creativity is a Conscious Choice. Melanie says this is what she has learned about Creativity so far:

•  Creativity is an option you decide to pursue every day.
• Creativity is an intention that you set for yourself.
• Creativity is a way of life that you adopt.

You may also be interested in this post which Melanie wrote on Ten Spectacular Creative Cures. I think I'm going to try Cure #6.: 

Make inspiration cards. Every time an idea or inspiration strikes, write it down on its own note card. Then at the end of each day review your cards and see if you notice a pattern.

 

 

Cinnamon Pink Girl in Progress

Here's a postcard-size sketch of a Cinnamon Pink Girl in progress.

Trying To Fit It All In

For the past few days, I wasn't able to blog because our modem stopped working. We had to wait for our ISP guy to bring us a new modem. They don't work on weekends. It felt very strange not to be connected. No Internet, No blog, No e-mail! I'm so glad to be back online.

Now, back to the title of my post: I have taken a temporary job and I'm currently juggling work, my art and my blog. I know many bloggers work full-time in the real world. (Or is that the offline world?) They easily balance blogging, art and work. I'm still trying to fit it all in. As I come up with ideas on how to do this, I'll include them in my posts.

My first thought is to make small art. Since small art doesn't take much time, I should be able to complete a project in one fast sitting. I always feel a sense of peace, or flow, when I finish an art piece.

According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity." (Source: Wikipedia.)

Using flow, fitting it all in and small art, as my goals, I created this ACEO (Art Cards, Editions, and Originals). How do you fit it all in?