Welcome!
We are here to discover Happiness with Art, and Make More Art, Your Way. The Artist’s Journey will unlock doors of perception for you. All you need is to show up, be open to exploring new ideas, and most of all, Do the Projects. Gift yourself with Art Time. It’s been shown that 30 min 3xs a week, or as much as you can give, devoted to creating art, will change your life. I’m so glad that you’re here with me on the Artist’s Journey.
Dragonfly Spiral Artist Success Path
Dragonfly Art Program is arranged to help you find your personal expressive style, your goals, and your true art. This is the Spiral Artist Success Path. There are two ways to look at this.
The first is to see a Path with technical craft skills in the center, and inspired, original, one-of-a-kind, Your Personal Style at the other. All along the way are so many different degrees of art-making to experience. Only by doing art will you find the wonderful sweet spot that is truly you.
The Second is that we all begin as Novices. As Beginners, we commit to creating art. We make the conscious choice of Art as our Journey. On the Spiral, it’s all moving forward and ascending as long as you do art.
What I’ve discovered after a lifetime of teaching art, is that even if you stop creating along the way, your body remembers. You may suffer some self doubt or lack of confidence for awhile, but you come back stronger than ever. You just need guided encouragement and a supportive group to find your Flow. It may very likely be in a new directions, but it will feel great.
I’ve been there. It’s true. Life shifted me away from mixed media to teaching/making jewelry. I needed a way back. Look for it and it will come.
Discovering your passion, your loves, the things that keep calling to you all your life, is where we begin. First, we look to the past. Working with memories and feelings are a wonderful trigger to get you moving. Painful or beautiful, they open a door to meaning for you.
Here’s where our Artist’s Journals become our major tool. We create a Resource of thoughts to return back to over and over again. Create a dedicated Artist’s Journal for the Journey!
Then we move onto your future dreams. What excites you? What ignites your passion? Who do you see yourself BECOMING as an artist? This is exciting new territory for each of us. Writing things down, we learn tools to brainstorm them and touch intuition. A direction begins to form. This becomes your personal Map, an Outline, to give you focus.
We move onto Inspiration Boards. These are images that you love, themes that recur, and colors that ignite the spirit.
With all these tools of the imagination, setting personal goals has never been easier. Goals set the pace for the art. They are your Milestones. Combine focused art with your goals, and you discover gold. Lastly, Inspired Actions get you moving.
Your path is your own. Start today by planning your Spiral Artist Success Path. Where are you beginning and imagine where you’d like to go. How much time would you like to give to art each week? What kind of media attracts you? What are your favorite colors and themes? Where will your art space be? Start writing down thoughts about these things.
“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art. “-Neil Gaiman
Here’s a link to the Materials List that we’ll be using. But use what you have. We begin with an Art Journal.
FaceBook Group: Please join the dedicated Dragonfly Membership Group. Introduce yourself and tell us where you’re from. Questions? Ask me anything there.
Now let’s Play!