Share It wasn’t happening. Every time I sat down at my desk to complete the next drawing lesson in Drawing From the Right Side of the Brain … something came up. I didn’t have the right plexiglass frame. There were emails to answer. The lighting wasn’t right. The pencil needed sharpening. The kid was too [...]
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The Faith of Art
Share I opened up the Travel & Leisure magazine and just started ripping. Tearing out glossy pages at random, letting my hands choose relevance without judging or thinking or deciding what each page would be used for. Then, removing the edges of each piece until it emerged. The word, the phrase, the tiny pig figurine. [...]
The Necessary of Getting Messy & Looking Like an Idiot.
Share Yes, I am a writer. Words are my media, my language of painting my truth. Words are how I attempt to compose a symphony of evocation and inspiration and stirring-you-up. Words are how I share myself, whether written or on video or in teaching a live class. But lately I’ve been doing some creativity [...]
twenty-eight days: misplacing my voice and other reasons to pick up a pen
Share The temporary excuse was the failure of a single digit. The diagnosis of osteoarthritis in the middle knuckle of my right ring finger – stiff, swollen – necessitating aleve and rest and splint and ice and the sticking of my flesh with needles. I couldn’t type. Couldn’t write. Was stuck with videos and hunt [...]
How to Make Money By Getting Nothing Done
Share I’m coming up on the end of the 60 day sabbatical, my moratorium on promotion and launches and producing and completing, so I could have space for the energies of thinking and creating and writing and who knows what else needed to be allowed to happen. Here are a few things I learned. Writing [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.