Zoom Out + Celebrate - Filling the Creative Well - Blog Series

Think about your creative practice and how many times you have shown up for yourself and celebrate. If you have been joining me daily on this journey then You have made past the halfway mark, now take time to zoom out, reflect, and celebrate. You’ve shown up for your creative self for 26+ days. That’s no small thing.

As you look back through your journal or art pieces. What do you see? How have you grown, where have you shown courage? What does your creative voice sound like. These are the fruits of your commitment you have shown to yourself.

What you can try 

• Create a page that celebrates this journey so far. 
• Take a moment to celebrate yourself today. 
• Make a joyful page, dance, write yourself a love letter. Share your work if it feels right.

Takeaway Nuggets:

1. Completion is a form of creative joy. 
2. Your journey matters—every single step.

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Check out some of the free and paid resources below to enhance your creative journey 

Course Platform - there are a variety of FREE courses and resources for you to use in your creative practice.

FREE Tier - Patreon - I have a Free Tier on Patreon that has a selection of early release posts and monthly Digital Download Papers for you to use in your creative projects - Learn More Here

YouTube - Weekly Videos to encourage your creative practice, Slow stitching, art journaling and Artists chats - Learn More Here

Check out Filling the Creative Well which helps you establish your creative practice. In the course Filling the Creative Well, your journal is also a place to answer questions, encourage and motivate you, some days you need a reminder and so filling it with encouraging words so that you can come back to it, especially in those days where you are in a valley is really important. .

Your Creative Why - Filling the Creative Well - Blog Series

Why do you create? What brings you to the page and into your studio or creative space, the paint, the thread, the glue? Your creative “why” is your foundation, it is important to articulate it. 

It can ground you when you’re lost, fuel you when you’re tired, and give purpose to the process.  Check out the following Video:

What you can try

• Create a page around your creative purpose. Use images, color, and affirmations.

• Spend time today reflecting on what drives your creativity. Is it joy? Healing? Connection? Play?

• Once you find your “why,” document it. Write it down. Make a visual reminder. 

This will become your anchor in future moments of doubt or creative fatigue.

Takeaway Nuggets:

1. Your “why” roots your practice in meaning.
2. Purpose sustains creativity through the peaks and valleys

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Check out some of the free and paid resources below to enhance your creative journey 

Course Platform - there are a variety of FREE courses and resources for you to use in your creative practice.

FREE Tier - Patreon - I have a Free Tier on Patreon that has a selection of early release posts and monthly Digital Download Papers for you to use in your creative projects - Learn More Here

YouTube - Weekly Videos to encourage your creative practice, Slow stitching, art journaling and Artists chats - Learn More Here

Check out Filling the Creative Well which helps you establish your creative practice. In the course Filling the Creative Well, your journal is also a place to answer questions, encourage and motivate you, some days you need a reminder and so filling it with encouraging words so that you can come back to it, especially in those days where you are in a valley is really important. .

Express - Filling The Creative Well - Blog Series

 

Expression is at the foundation of our art, and we can find many different creative ways for that expression to be visible. Let go of the idea that it has to take a specific form or be what 'others normally do'. It is coming from you, and it doesn’t have to be pretty. It just needs to be your truth.

Let go of polish and focus on truth-telling through color, line, and texture. It doesn’t happen overnight, but it is a practice that you commit to.

What are you holding right now, it could be emotionally, mentally, spiritually? Pour it onto the page this is not a performance it is for you. Let the work be raw, real, and uncensored.

What you can Try 

• Make a page that expresses a strong emotion or truth you’re carrying today

• Use color to represent mood, create marks, writing, or found words.

• This is your space to show visually how you feel to vent or celebrate. Cry on the page, laugh, sing or whisper.

Expression is not about art that’s understood, it is about art that feels.

Takeaway Nuggets:

1. Expression is healing even when it’s messy.
2. Your page can hold what your words cannot voice.

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Check out some of the free and paid resources below to enhance your creative journey 

Course Platform - there are a variety of FREE courses and resources for you to use in your creative practice.

FREE Tier - Patreon - I have a Free Tier on Patreon that has a selection of early release posts and monthly Digital Download Papers for you to use in your creative projects - Learn More Here

YouTube - Weekly Videos to encourage your creative practice, Slow stitching, art journaling and Artists chats - Learn More Here

Check out Filling the Creative Well which helps you establish your creative practice. In the course Filling the Creative Well, your journal is also a place to answer questions, encourage and motivate you, some days you need a reminder and so filling it with encouraging words so that you can come back to it, especially in those days where you are in a valley is really important. .

Wild and Free - Filling the Creative Well - Blog Series

 

I used to worry a lot about what 'they' would think about my work and me if I posted. I started to ask myself who the 'they' were that I allowed to take up real-estate in my mind for FREE. I tried to put a face to the 'they' - all those who had negative things to say, or who I imagined would have something to criticize me for and I decided to untether myself.

Consider what it would be like if you threw off the rules, expectations, and perfectionism, and let go of all those negative thoughts that only delay you.

Let yourself create with childlike joy and abandon.  We can hold ourselves in such ridged constraints worrying about what the others might think.

What you can try

• Put on music and move while you create. Draw with your eyes closed. Your creative practice doesn’t have to be tidy it just has to be true and come from you.

• Create a page that’s loose, bold, and unfiltered. Let your instinct lead.

• Create on the wild side and tap into your intuition. It lets your hands speak before your mind interrupts. You can also rediscover the part of you that just wants to feel good creating.

Whatever you make today, let it be untamed. Wild lines. Loud color. Bold movement. Nothing is too much.

Takeaway Nuggets:

• Wildness invites joy and surprise.

• Freedom is where the real magic begins.

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Check out some of the free and paid resources below to enhance your creative journey 

Course Platform - there are a variety of FREE courses and resources for you to use in your creative practice.

FREE Tier - Patreon - I have a Free Tier on Patreon that has a selection of early release posts and monthly Digital Download Papers for you to use in your creative projects - Learn More Here

YouTube - Weekly Videos to encourage your creative practice, Slow stitching, art journaling and Artists chats - Learn More Here

Check out Filling the Creative Well which helps you establish your creative practice. In the course Filling the Creative Well, your journal is also a place to answer questions, encourage and motivate you, some days you need a reminder and so filling it with encouraging words so that you can come back to it, especially in those days where you are in a valley is really important. .