Sarah’s Creative Journey

I am so excited about the latest chapter I have been reading in The Artist's Way : Finding Water  that I had to share. Most of them quotes, they can speak to anyone... "When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees." -Kenneth Kaunda "If you don't risk anything, you risk even more." -Erica Jong "You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything." -Francine Prose "There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." Henry Ford **"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." -Malcolm Forbes "Only those that risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot "Contrary to our mythology, creativity is not a dangerous pursuit.  The creative flow is both normal and healthy." -Julia Cameron This chapter is mostly about how...

So as of last Monday, my thoughts were:  I have only 3 more weeks to prepare myself for RAW.  I have hardly made any new and finalized "pieces" to take with me, and I have now been showing my college artwork for a few years now...  My goal:   Put myself to work and get shit done How: Give myself more thinking time, work time, and play time Process: Go to bed at 2am and attempt to get up at 8am everyday this week Results: Most of them good Finished 1 project I had started a few weeks ago, completed 1 project (in a day!) I had planned to do last year, did a small painting of a friend, got an idea for the Dayton water project, and worked on some color scripts for American Pie!  As well as read a couple chapters in Artist's Way, writing and drawing some, and feeling overall pretty content and happy--as opposed to what might have happened to a sleep-deprived and art-deprived Sarah. The only down sides: Obviously lack of sleep.  Overslept an hour on t...

This is what I have been doing with my old business cards.  I have made more than 159, but have already given out quite a few.  I started this project about a year ago as a small project to get myself to start drawing characters everyday.  I would say it has been mostly successful!