Artist is a Verb (eBook)

Live the life of an artist, with a commitment of just 5-minutes a day! This book will be a companion for life for anyone who wants to begin or keep going on a creative journey. A daily splash of inspiration tohelp you get started and keep going, show up for yourself, work through challenges, befriend your inner critic, embrace the blank page of creating, and celebrate your own unique creative path. Supportive readings with ideas for you to do each day to grow your creative life. Whether you choose to show up daily or regularly on your own timetable, allow yourself to receive the gifts of devotion to yourself through a Creative Practice. What is the creative dream or longing that lives inside you? Visual art, writing, dance, acting, music, singing, cooking, gardening, or any other projects or creative acts? About a week before her mother died author Tish McAllise Sjoberg asked her if she had any regrets. The answer was yes, her mother hadalways wanted to become an artist. After 73 years, that was her regret. Not that she had done something terrible or wronged someone, but that she wronged herself in an almost invisible way. Always putting others' needs and wants first, she never became who she wanted to be. Her mother's regret became fuel for her own creative path. Tish thought she too could die without realizing her dream of becoming an artist. In a commitment to honor her mother's life and regret, and to not let a single day go by where she didn't honor her own desire to be anartist Tish embarked on her first 365 Days of Art project. She committed to make art every day for a year and McAllise Sjoberg never stopped. At publication of this book she celebrates of 20 years of making art daily. "e;Artist is a verb. We don't become an artist and then do art, we do art and then begin to feel like an artist."e;-Tish McAllise Sjoberg