Showing posts with label the artist's way. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the artist's way. Show all posts

Monday, June 27, 2011

Inspiration: 197/365

Sunday nights are when I read the upcoming week's chapter and tasks in TAW.  Using my Nook light in the dark, the book's pages that were left out in the rain last month looked rumpled and interesting, but not enough for a pic, so I moved to the inspirational source herself, Julia Cameron, and liked the distortion the glass provided. 

Here is the creative lovely, herself.  I'm currently in week seven and wanted to share what she had to say about perfectionism which I found very helpful and a reminder to "just do it!"
"Perfectionism has nothing to do with fixing things.  It has nothing to do with standards.  Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead.  It is a loop-an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.  Instead of creating freely and allowing errors to reveal themselves later as insights, we often get mired into getting the details right.  We correct our originality into a uniformity that lacks passion and spontaneity."  -Julia Cameron 

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Hope: 193/365 (Thursday)

Wednesday I took Julia Cameron's advice in The Artist's Way's week 6: Recovering a Sense of Abundance, and went shopping at World Market for something nice for myself.  I had been wanting a plain silver chain I could wear daily and this piece spoke to me, especially for $4.95.  I noticed the light reflecting through my water glass onto my skin after a shower the next day.  May HOPE radiate light and peace to anyone who sees this reminder.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Stirring it Up: 163/365


I'm currently working The Artist's Way for the third time in ten years.  I hope now to complete the twelve week course, having had this SG 365 project as practice and another form of discipline.  I'm on week two of writing my daily pages, doing the tasks and taking my inner artist on Artist Dates. 

 It's another way to grow and nurture myself, though I have found it to "stir" some things up.  Some of it good, some stuff I'd rather forget. But then the other alternative is quitting for the third time, finding the payoff in not achieving or creating more comfortable and safe, painfully watching others produce while I sit back and admire (or judge) their art rather than doing the work myself.

Luckily, Julia is familiar with this flood of emotions and week two is called, "Going Sane," though after week one, you may feel like you are going crazy.  She is also covering who we need to surround ourselves with and how to recognize the people in our lives whom aren't supportive, making me even more grateful for everyone that supports me here. <3   

Some examples of what Julia Cameron covers:
  • Protect the artist child within
  • Acknowledge that you are an artist
  • Lose the fear of being wrong
  • Don't judge yourself, allow yourself to make mistakes
  • Go slow -- it isn't a competition, and there's no deadline
  • Affirmations: "I am a billiant & prolific __________."
  • Blurts - subconscious negative responses -- turn them into positive affirmations
  • Also - creative affirmations, i.e., "I am a channel for God's creativity, and my work comes to good," etc. (even agnostics can work this process)