Scroll for information about today’s giveaway, to watch the video, and read my thoughts. I took a self-portrait class. Even though I’ve created over 800 self-portraits, even though I’ve taught self-portrait classes before… I went. And I was a student. Going to this class, taught by the gorgeous person Meghan Davidson, opened up two ways of thinking for me. The first was one that I had to understand before I went. I’m a natural facilitator. I love teaching, love guiding…
How often do you make something that surprises you? As the great photographer Jerry Uelsmann once said, and I paraphrase – if he has any goal, it is to surprise himself. I think that is one of the most profound statements an artist can adopt. It is so difficult to surprise ourselves. After all, we are ourselves. To do something so out of our usual comfort zone that even we are surprised by what we do or the outcome of…
Read to the end for today’s free giveaway + to read my practical tips for an art business! This is a long one but it sure is juicy! Folks, I need to admit something to you. I’m not terribly organized. However, after I started sharing about my work days (on Instagram Stories) and how much I get done, I started getting messages (like, a lot of them) about how I stay organized enough to get all of those tasks crossed off…
(Read through to the bottom to enter a giveaway for a free portfolio review!) I have tried and failed to put this idea into words for years. YEARS. But I finally feel like I understand it well enough to talk about. So, let’s talk. Please. Talk this out with me. I am a Creative Professional. I say it this way because, depending on the day, I fall into different roles: Photographer, Writer, Speaker, Educator, Philanthropist. Depending on the day I…
I suddenly went from almost never reading to reading 45 books in a year. This blog post is about how to achieve that kind of result…I think. I went from doing a job that I hated to a job that I loved. I went from letting emails pile for months to answering on a 24 hour cycle. I went from never keeping receipts to doing taxes monthly. I went from being judgmental and difficult to easy going. A week ago…