Art Blog for The Inspiration Place

This blog post goes over the five basic steps in developing your artistic talent from practice to finding the right teacher. If you want to succeed you need desire and someone to show your proper techniques and the best tools.

1. Practice (Trumpet Practice by Norman Rockwell) There is no question that the more you practice the better you get. If you are intimidated to practice without guidance, it...

In the beginning of 2014, I made a goal to get published in art magazines. Starting with the end goal in mind, I knew the only way to get "discovered" was to submit the art myself to the magazines. I made submitting my art a priority in 2014. Steps to getting your art published The first step to getting published is to research the magazine's deadlines and editors....

As I unpack 2014, I take a look at the more popular blog posts for the last year. I like doing these round ups for several reasons. First, it allows me to share the best of the best with you and second, it guides me in deciding what I should be blogging about in the coming year. I also added some notes about why I think these posts became so popular.

5 Artists to Follow on Instagram

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Discover my most popular instagram pictures of 2014

Hooray for 2014

In the spirit of celebrating the end of the year, I am going to be doing round up posts over the next few days.

My Instagram Story

I started doing instagram about a year ago. I have had a lot of fun and connected with a great community. Instagram doesn't take a lot of my time and it is pure eye candy. Do you do instagram too?

Top Five...

One of my 2015 art goals is to create more free videos and teach more content through youtube and my blog, so I am working on a cat painting video series. Coming soon, I'll be offering a three-part video demonstration using watercolors to capture your adorable companion. Click HERE to get email announcements as the videos become available.


Send me your Questions

Since I am working on the series...

I have never been one for News Year's resolutions but I absolutely love setting goals for the year. One of the best ways I have found for reaching my goals is writing it down and then sharing it. By making my goals public it adds additional accountability to my goal setting and also by putting my goals out there, like on this blog, it also gives me a permanent place to look back during the year.

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Want to hear a true story? Yesterday I was supposed to be working on my online art class on "How to Paint Cats" but I couldn't shake the need to document in my art journal the word that described 2014 and the word I wanted to describe 2015.

 

Documenting the Year

So what happened? I spent four hours working on two different spreads in my art journal...Yep, you heard me ...four hours. I was really mad...

At the start of 2014, I decided to choose one word to represent my hopes and intentions for the year. (You can read more about that in my One Little Word blog post) I decided that "harmony" would be a great word for the year and I have to say that the word served me well.  Hello Harmony When I cleaned my home, I wasn't just "cleaning" but I was creating "harmony." I looked to make harmony...

To start setting goals for next year, take a look back and reflect on 2014. 

I asked some of my artist friends, how would they describe their 2014 art business in one word.... and what they want their art career to look like in 2015.

Here is what they had to say...

 

Deb Harvey explores art with whimsy 2014: accommodating,  2015: discover

 

Renie Britenbucher creates light-hearted paintings. 2014:whirlwi...

 

 

Trust the experts

 

I'm teaming up with blogger Irreversibly Moi for this great giveaway! Do you see all the paints and art supplies in this fabulous picture? I don't know how she managed to put it together but I wish I could enter too! Wouldn't getting this set of paints absolutely INSPIRE you to create?

chance to win an ornament eBook

In addition to a chance to be the one grand winner of all these supplies, three...

What's in my art journal right now...

An inspirational art calendar will remind you to reset each month

There are certain points in the calendar year that seem to lend itself well to hitting the reset button: January, Monday, September, your birthday. Everyone loves a fresh start and a new beginning; however, I am wondering why do we have to wait to hit reset?

Hitting the reset button

When my computer...