Last Friday January 23rd, the French painter and art teacher Paul Reynard died in his New York home. He wasn’t particularly well known for his art in the United States (in fact I couldn’t find any images of his paintings on the Internet.) However, I loved something he once said about the creative process: “…there…
Nearly everyone I know right now seems to be “waiting.” We’re waiting for decisions to be made—waiting for leaders to act, for resolutions to come, for the world to shift. Whether it’s political transitions, economic recovery, climate action, or personal uncertainties, waiting seems to be the theme of our time. But lately, I’ve been experiencing…
There are so many gems of wisdom in Robert Henri’s The Art Spirit that it’s hard to choose just one to share. (If you flipped through my copy, you’d see “wow,” “cool,” and “neat” scribbled in red letters in the margins of practically every page.) But perhaps the most profound insight is this: creating art…
There was a child went forth every day.And the first object he looks upon, that object he became.–Walt Whitman The late poet Stanley Kunitz believed that writers often have a “key image” that threads through their work, shaping their creative journey. He suggested that writers might spend an entire lifetime exploring a single key image,…
I’ve never been a naturally confident person, and sometimes I wonder about that. Every creative thing I’ve done has required inner courage—pushing through a persistent voice that whispers there’s nothing of value here. It’s an exhausting pattern: I dismiss and deny my own work, and then I look at confident people and assume they’re more…
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