Art Blog for The Inspiration Place

One of my favorite social media time wasters is instagram. Being a visual person, I love all the eye candy that people post throughout the day. In this post, I share with you my top five loved instagram posts in 2015.

All but one is of my animal art, which shouldn't really surprise me. Do you do instagram?

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I named this painting "Foxy Loxy" after one of my favorite children's stories, Chicken...

Okay, we have reached the last post in the series of books I enjoyed during 2015. Have you added any to your reading wish list? If you run any kind of online business, then these books were awesome. They really appealed to the nerdier left side of my brain. Let me know in the comments if you enjoyed this series!

Invisible Selling Machine by Ryan Deiss “if I had to boil it down to the one thing that...

Now I have a little confession... so far I have shared all the books I have read-- with my eyes. But the following 5 books I did not read. I listened to them on audio. In fact, I drove my children absolutely bananas since I decided that they needed to listen to them too as we drove around from place to place. I figured maybe Tony Robbins or Jack Canfield could get my son to do his homework or my...

This blog post is a continuation of my year of reading. See what inspired me this year and if it inspires you as well! If you are wondering what this has to do with art, then let me share this quote by Twyla Tharp: “I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.” ― Twyla Tharp ...

At the end of last year, I made a very firm commitment to read. After passing on a very expensive online course promising to teach "how to maximize your performance," I went on a year long quest to educate myself in similar strategies by reading books in management, personal self-development and marketing.  Reading in my studio.... Book Review Series This blog post is actually going to be part of a...

This blog post turns the spotlight on some other watercolor artists who will be sharing the stage with me in January for Creative Jumpstart.

Here are the watercolor goodies I will be using!

What is Creative JumpStart?

If you haven't heard about it yet from my other blog posts, Creative JumpStart is an online course featuring 24 artists. I will be joining the fray and sharing fun techniques using...

Want to see how to make wrapping paper extra special? If you love getting crafty and like to add handmade touches to your gifts then the guest blog post I did over on Jessica Sporn's blog is for you. 

Other blog posts you might like:

• 8 Hanukkah Gift Ideas

• December is the new January

• 5 Gift Ideas for the Hostess

 

For the past few years, my family and I have started a tradition of choosing a word for the year. We begin discussing our words in December, as we proudly turn words over in our minds and share them with each other.

Harmony

If you are new to this concept, let me explain how this works. Two years ago, I chose the word "harmony." I decided to look for harmony in everything I did. I was not cleaning...