What’s in your paint and did anyone die making it?

Don’t pick up that brush until you have employed the three a’s. Awareness of what’s there. Assessment of the shapes colors, etc. Then action.

Three things to watch out for when reaching an intermediate level of painting skills.

Is criticism good for artists?

Opening up to the way our ever changing bodily and mental states affect our creative process and how to use them or enhance them to be in flow.

How does personality type affect creativity?

How to approach dazzlingly beautiful subjects

Another level of deep observation. How to think beyond first impressions and avoid boring paintings.

Stay focused on the active creative work of painting and let the automatic do your bidding. But don’t let the mindless unconscious run away with the process.