Doing Art needs a New Approach

Doing Art demands a new way of thinking. We have to step away from the competitive world, the one that is quick to label, bully, and hold us back. Art Success is not about making money, or being as good as that guy, or creating perfect masterpieces every time.

Making Art is personal. It’s improving, playing, experimenting, and ultimately, finding our own personal self expression. It demands a spaciousness of time and place.

The main takeaways from this video are:

1. Doing Art demands a state of curiosity. Art is a love affair with Your Self. You start with, ‘What if…?’ It’s a time to play and create art meaningful to you. Doing art is about your life, learning, and growing into new experiences. You immerse yourself into projects big and small because they’re fun, interesting, and easy.

2. Art is totally a learned skill. The more you do, the better you become. We don’t question the guy playing golf or basketball every chance he gets, just so he can improve his style and technique. The musician must practice to learn and experience chords, amps, and songs. In the same way, artists won’t create a masterpiece every time. Art isn’t perfect. It’s messy, experimental and scary. But we enter our studio sanctuary every chance we get, even to just create for awhile. Small spurts of creating are a great way to learn.

3. Doing Art puts us in a higher state of consciousness. When we are truly involved, music and voices fade away. We enter a place a of No Time. There’s a spaciousness there to dream, explore, and discover new talents, abilities, and our Self. There you can be loud and wild, or thoughtful and meditative. Intuition lives here.

So what’s your approach to art? Are you hard on yourself, or do you let yourself play and experiment? Do you enjoy the learning process, the letting go to see what happens? I’d love to hear what you think!

Enjoy this day. Be inspired.

Pat