Summary
In this episode of Painterly Life, host Shannon Grissom speaks with artist Teresa J. Sharp about her inspiring journey of creativity, shaped by her family’s influence, hospitality experiences, and travels. They explore how sourdough baking fuels her artistic expression, the vital role of community, and strategies for overcoming creative blocks. Teresa shares profound experiences from Japan and France, illustrating how these moments have enriched her art. The conversation wraps up with invaluable advice for aspiring artists, emphasizing the importance of connecting with their creativity and the art community.
Takeaways
- Creativity can be ignited through personal experiences.
- Family traditions, like baking, can influence artistic expression.
- Hospitality can serve as a creative outlet.
- Traveling can provide new perspectives and inspiration for art.
- Overcoming fear is essential for pursuing artistic opportunities.
- Building relationships with other artists fosters growth.
- Creative blocks are common, but can be managed.
- Engaging in challenges can help reignite creativity.
- Investing in oneself is crucial for artistic development.
- Art is subjective, and self-acceptance is key.
Inspirational Reads
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The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Chapters
00:00 Igniting Creativity and Inspiration
00:50 The Art of Sourdough and Family Influence
03:08 Hospitality and Its Impact on Art
05:53 Rediscovering Art Through Life Changes
10:09 Traveling to Toulouse: A Creative Journey
11:46 Cultural Influences: Japan and Artistic Growth
15:01 Overcoming Creative Blocks
20:04 Building Relationships in the Art Community
21:57 Future Aspirations and New Opportunities
About Teresa
A native Californian, Teresa grew up in the San Joaquin Valley with her family in the town of Shafter, where she learned to see the beauty in the daily elements of life: food, farmland, wildflowers and occasional sunsets on the Central Coast. She took a few drawing and oil painting courses at Bakersfield Community College and Fresno State before getting married and pouring her creative energy into home-making, mothering and hospitality. She especially enjoyed cooking and baking for those she loved. Life in Southern California, the Hill Country of Texas, and the Bay Area of California filled her mind with scenes and images she longed to paint.
Teresa enjoyed incorporating her love of art into mothering and home-making. There were seasons of watercolor classes sprinkled throughout her years at home with her children.
The year that Teresa turned 50, she challenged herself to work and develop her latent artistic talent after reading “The Artist Way” by Julia Cameron. One of the first big steps toward that end was a solo Art Retreat near Toulouse, France. The experience was life-changing and jump-started her focus on art. She also spent most of that year participating in a group class at the Morgan Hill California Cultural & Senior Center. A serendipitous introduction to a professional artist led to a mentoring relationship that inspired her to go back to college. Teresa found her Color and Basic Drawing classes at Evergreen Community College in San Jose, California to be the perfect building block she needed as a growing artist. This season was an encouraging time of growth. Several of her pieces were accepted for the 2012 Juried Student Art Exhibit; one piece was used for promotional materials and received an Honorable Mention during the awards ceremony.
The biggest change was still to come. When Teresa’s husband was given the opportunity to move to Japan for a temporary assignment, the flood gates of artistic development opened up. In Yokohama, Teresa found an English speaking art teacher who provided not only quality instruction, but an artist community where she could participate in exhibitions and found friendships which led to new opportunities.
The beauty and art culture in Japan was an artistic sensory overload. Every seasonal change, with its dominate flower and foliage, was celebrated and presented in a way that inspired interpretation. While in Yokohama, Teresa had one Solo Exhibition and one Duet Exhibition where many of her pieces were sold. This was also the time that Teresa began working on portraits and completed two commissioned works.
After returning to the USA in 2016, Teresa and her husband, Lenny Sharp, settled in Oakhurst, CA near Yosemite National Park. Together they cofounded “Live Create Connect” that combines their love of art, photography, and hospitality. One of Teresa’s jobs is helping to manage a few short term vacation rentals through the hospitality side of their business called “Sharp Vacation Homes”, where her creative outlet is primarily in interior design and staging of those vacation homes.
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Links
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Transcript
Shannon Grissom (00:05.742)
Hi, I’m Shannon Grissom. Are you looking to ignite your creativity? Or how about be inspired by a steady stream of muses? Welcome to Painterly Life, the podcast that celebrates those who create, inspire, and innovate. So whether you’re looking to spark your next big idea, reignite your passion, or simply soak in some creative energy,
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Shannon Grissom (00:50.368)
Welcome to Painterly Life. I’m your host, Shannon Grissom. Today’s guest is Teresa J. Sharp. Teresa combines her culinary, family life, and hospitality background into her art. Welcome, Teresa.
Thank you, it’s good to be here.
Okay, rather than just diving straight into the art, I would really love to talk about your sourdough. It’s a beautiful sculptural creation and dang, isn’t it yummy? So how did you get started doing that?
Well, I have a long legacy of baking. I loved baking, but I didn’t really do it sourdough. And then, you know, the craze started with the COVID shutdowns and my daughter got into it, which is funny because she wasn’t a baker, but she got really into sourdough. And then the first time she was able to come visit, she brought some starters, like, mom, you’ve got to try this. And she showed me how she did it, which was fun. A big role reversal, you know, instead of me teaching her to bake, she’s teaching me.
It was just a fun little tradition that I picked up.
Shannon Grissom (02:07.446)
So how has your family life, your baking, love of entertaining influenced your art?
Well, it’s all interconnected, I think, like it is for most people. Our stories are just a tangled mess, a beautiful tapestry, as we like to call it, of different twists and turns. And when I got married, my biggest dream was to be a homemaker. I really didn’t have career aspirations. I had the latent art interest, but I didn’t think that I could do anything.
practical with that. So I just threw myself into homemaking. And that really was a creative outlet in my 20s and 40s. It brought a lot of joy just providing home as a haven, know, preparing, organizing, planning, decorating, and then keeping it going so that my husband and my children had a place to launch from.
And I really didn’t feel deprived. I didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything. I did that as creatively as I could. And that kind of expanded into inviting family, friends, neighbors over for meals and everything from a casual takeout pizza and brownie box to, you know, a seven course New Year’s Eve dinner. You know, I liked everything in between.
So it kept my creative juices alive and was a genuine expression of wanting to sort of add to the beauty of the world and engage with others in that.
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And while you’re still doing that now on top of your art, can you tell me a little bit about your involvement in the hospitality industry and how that has influenced your art?
Yes, so I’ve always enjoyed having people over hosting and especially overnight guests. But we actually lived in Japan for four years. And while we were there, we ended up having a lot of visitors that were more extended, know, relatives of relatives that I didn’t know yet, or friends of friends that I didn’t know yet.
And we just got more comfortable having people in our home and sharing what we loved about where we were living, taking them sightseeing to our favorite restaurants and that sort of thing. And then as we were thinking about what life would be like when we came back to the States, we came up with this idea that was just when the vacation rental, the short-term vacation rental boom kind of started. And my husband is an early adopter on a lot of these sorts of things. So he was like, let’s…
consider doing this. Let’s find a place to live instead of going back to the Bay Area and getting maybe stuck in a home that with a huge mortgage. Let’s try to find a place to live that costs a little less and has space room to do vacation rental short-term vacation rental. So eight years ago we did that and I helped manage those vacation rentals. We have the one we live in and one in in Oakhurst and then one in
Mariposa and now one in San Antonio, Texas and my husband does the bulk of the work because I got too busy with that and and Although it was fun, especially the setup. That was the creative fun part, you know decorating going with the theme Setting up the functional aspect being organized having my checklist. I loved all of that Then when we got in the day-to-day Managing setting up the cleaners and that sort of thing
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it started to take away from my true passion, which was the art in painting. So he’s taken on the bulk of that now and I’m still helping, but I don’t do as much with it. I still enjoy rearranging the art in those spaces and sharing what we’re doing with them with others. I engage with the guests a little bit, especially at our own home, but it’s…
Again was another fun Way of using my desire to create a haven, a place for people to launch for their adventures, you know, as they travel.
I love that you too were influenced by The Artist’s Way I read the book when I was in my thirties and to this day, many, many years later, I am still doing morning pages every day and they still serve me well. I continue to get inspired by them. So with you, you took classes, did the Artist’s Way exercises and then you went to Toulouse, France. So tell me about that.
Well, I always enjoyed art as a child and I fell in love with oil painting in high school. But then when I got married and focused on homemaking, I put all that aside. I didn’t have the room to leave the messy stuff out. And I dabbled in art classes every now and then when I homeschooled my daughter. It was a great excuse. It’s like, this is part of her education. And I’d sit in and…
That’s when I started doing watercolor. But again, it was very sporadic. I didn’t prioritize it. It was low on the list, but it was always there. And if I go on vacation, I might take my paints and do a little bit. But when I was turning 50, the year, well, I was 49 and looking ahead to my 50th year, I had noticed a couple of other friends had made some major life changes right around 50.
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They had personal challenges or started new things. And I was going through a hard time struggling with some depression, was a bit overwhelmed. I had been involved in some women’s ministry and volunteer work, which I loved. It was very rewarding. But I just had reached the end of a chapter and felt like something had to change. I needed to take better care of myself. I needed to focus on
something that didn’t involve the children. My youngest was a teenager and was kind of giving me the, okay, mom, you’re done signals. And so I’m like, I’ve got to get my own life now. And I started reading The Artist’s Way. And honestly, the first time I read it through, I’m like, no, no, this is no, this isn’t me. total denial.
And the second time I read it through, like, give it a chance. Maybe there’s something there. Do some of the exercises. So I did start doing the morning pages. I actually got involved in a writers group. It’s like I just needed a creative outlet. And the combination of the writers group, The Artist’s Way, and then a serendipitous meeting with a few other professional artists who encouraged me, I just decided to make that year, the year I turned 50,
a year of transition and sort of a trial periods. Like I’m gonna quit everything that adds stress to my life, continue loving God and loving others, continue the basics of being a human. But I wanted to see if there was really something to my art that needed to be nurtured and could grow. So I started thinking what I really would like to do is
go away for a while on my own, be brave. My husband is a world traveler and traveled a lot with work and I got to piggyback on that, but he always took care of everything. And I was like, you know what, I’m a grown up. I ought to be able to travel on my own. So it was a reward for turning 50, for staying alive and a challenge to step up and be brave.
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And so I found this art retreat in Toulouse, France, and it was scary on so many levels, just allowing myself, it seems so decadent, like to invest in myself, to say, it’s okay to spend the time and money and effort to focus on something I might just enjoy. It may be nothing more than enjoyment. And it was a huge spiritual, emotional hurdle.
honestly to overcome but my husband was super supportive and I made the plans and it was in October. I started this plan in November, December and it wasn’t until October so then I spent those next months preparing for that. I joined a senior center class with watercolor, took a couple of private lessons with watercolor and then
By the time October came, I was ready to jump in and it was an amazing experience. And it was scary and I made lots of mistakes that I could laugh about, like packing too much luggage and not getting accurate directions, walking, wandering the streets lost in Toulouse with giant luggage, the embarrassing ugly American, but it was fun. It was wonderful. And it really did help kickstart my like, this is real. I’m really becoming an artist.
Well, you’ve had a lot of travel. I love your geishas and your koi paintings. Can you tell me about your time in Japan?
And that was also sort of a follow-up to this whole Artist’s Way honoring the passion that’s in me. After getting back from Toulouse and continuing with the Senior Center and then meeting these other professional artists, we actually went through the Artist’s Way workbook together. And one woman had raised her child as a single mom, as a full-time artist. Her entire adult career was a
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was a full-time artist and I just, that was so inspiring to me. It’s like you can actually make this profitable. You don’t have to just be the starving artist who spends all your extra money on your art supplies and consider it a hobby. So that planted a seed of maybe someday I could, you know, increase my skills enough to have a little career out of this in my later years.
And they encouraged me to go back to school. When I got frustrated with the level of seriousness or instruction at the senior center, they’re like, just go back to school. So I went to a community college in San Jose, Evergreen College, and took a basic drawing class and a basic color class. And my gosh, I fell in love. I loved homework assignments. I love instruction. It helped with some of that artist block of what am I going to do?
It’s like I had a home assignment. That’s what I’m going to do. I very limited choices and really helped. So it got me in the practice of doing that. Then shortly right after that one semester, I only took one semester right after that semester was over. My husband got a job opportunity to have a temporary assignment in Yokohama, Japan. And again, it just seemed like the right time in our life. And we just
We sold our home, we put most of our belongings in storage, and it was a two-year assignment that turned into four because we loved it so much. Again, I think just the personal challenge of having to give up what was behind and move forward, again, there I didn’t have any responsibilities except to love and support my husband. And the funny thing is the primary goal he had other than, you know.
go to work and do his job was to make sure I was happy. And in fact, the funny thing was the company even had that focus. Like they understood that the spouse of the expat who’s doing the job struggles the most because they don’t have a job to go to and instant friends and all of that. So they provided all sorts of resources, language classes, private language lessons that
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turned into a deep friendship and I started traveling with her. She was very supportive of my art pursuits. I found an English speaking art teacher at a small school that I could go to as little or as much as I wanted. That became a new community. Everyone was so supportive. It was an amazing experience.
Well, now you’ve become such a creative powerhouse. Do ever get stuck? I mean, do you ever just feel resistance? And if so, what do you do to get out of it?
I get stuck a lot. I have a lot of artist friends who are like, there’s so much stress in my life and in the world. So I just went to my studio and let it all go. I’m the opposite. If there’s stress and anxiety and upheaval in my life, whether it’s my emotional life or my relational life or my physical life, if we’re traveling a lot or whatever, I just don’t produce much. And then I get out of the routine.
And then it’s hard to get back in. Again, may have the little ADD issues. It’s like I can only focus on one thing at a time. And if I have too many things draining my energy and I’m problem solving in different areas of my life, I can’t focus on the art. think I heard somewhere, you an average painting takes, you make 2000 decisions in an average painting. I’m like,
And I am very sensitive to decision making overload. So I have to be very thoughtful about my time and my use of my time. one of my the biggest helps in my life, I like to read and I like to read some basic organizational books, but one of the my favorite books, besides the Artist’s Way is Atomic Habits And I realized that and I reread it almost every year. So I learned some very practical ways of
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thinking about my life, what my priorities are, what I’m doing, and then protecting my most productive time, especially when I have deadlines. So in a general sense, that’s my approach to avoiding being stuck. It’s just carving out time, looking at my calendar and writing in paint on certain days. Like I’m going to protect that day. I’m not going to let something else get in. That is my paint day.
in a more, what’s the word, in a more psychological way to get over those blocks and stops. I have to trick myself. I have to, I’m very linear and driven and check the lists, know, checks the boxes on the list kind of person, which doesn’t really fit with creativity sometimes because again, I’ve got this nagging list in my mind, but
If I just work with that instead of working against it, knowing myself, it’s like, okay, work ahead of time to prepare myself for the days I’m going to paint. So the night before, I need to make as many decisions as I can, maybe the full day before. So I’m going to look through my reference photos, narrow it down, get a few things printed out, draw grid on it, choose what size canvas or paper I’m going to use. I make as many
Preparatory decisions as I can so that the day I’m gonna paint all I have to do is get started So that’s one practical thing, but if I’m really really stuck and I have been you know with again with some transitions like when we first moved here I was isolated and alone from everyone and the return From Japan was harder than the going to Japan I’ve heard that’s a common thing when you’re an expat returning home is sometimes harder than going so
During that time, what I did is I tried to remove as much pressure as I could from feeling like I have to paint a masterpiece. So the key to that for me was sketchbooks. I got several sketchbooks and that’s how I got started. And that’s my tip for people who want to get started. If they haven’t done anything with art and they think they can’t draw and they think they can’t paint, get a sketchbook, get, if you like watercolors, make sure it’s got watercolor paper in it.
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pencil, pen, watercolor, and then just start. again, know yourself and what works for you. And part of what works for me is a challenge, like a 30-day challenge. I like to do social media, so I make a big deal. I’ve signed up for a 30-day challenge. I’m gonna use someone else’s prompts so I don’t have to make a decision. And I’m gonna do this challenge every day. And I tell the world, starting today, I’m doing a challenge. Here’s my first one. And now,
I have a built-in incentive to do at least something every day. And I give myself lots of leeway. It can be a quarter of a page. Doesn’t have to be a full page. Doesn’t have to be a full scene. It can be a study. It can be a practice. It could be a thumbnail sketch, honestly. Just something in my sketchbook. And that helps usually get me back, get my sort of creative juices flowing again, especially if I’ve done it for 30 days and I have a sense of accomplishment.
Because a big part of what happens as I sink into my stuckness is the self-doubt. You’re not really an artist. You can’t really paint. Who do you think you are? You have more important things to do. You all that negative self-talk. Well, if I completed even 15 of 30-day challenge, I’m like, I am an artist. See, I can draw a mug with coffee in it. So that’s just a couple of my…
ways of getting out. will add though, building relationships with other artists was huge for me. In fact, the where I’m at today is directly related to joining some groups. And for us up here, Yosemite Sierra artist group, which is a larger group, was the first step and made a big difference. And then you hear about shows and exhibitions and now there’s deadlines. I need to make sure I have a
painting done by this deadline so I can submit it. That’s just the way I work. Some people feel pressured by those things, but I work to deadlines, like I said, all my fellow students, all the youngsters who were in my Evergreen college class every Friday or Thursday, I would be, what about homework? And the other students are like, no, no, no. But I’m like, I wanted homework over the weekend. And they were like, no.
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So that’s just me. think knowing yourself is the important thing. know, what, what, just trying to figure out what motivates you, what gives you that extra push, but the relationships do. And then later I joined a smaller group of nine women who met, who meet regularly about once a month. And we do show and tell, we have challenges. And again, there were several months where I just, I couldn’t do anything.
went through a hard time when my mom was in her final months of life and you know it was hard. It was hard to get something done but being in relationship with other artists who encourage you and celebrate every little effort was really helpful.
Your self-awareness, that’s huge because I know for me, I work with who I am to make my creations. Case in point is that I was always told that I was too sensitive. And over the years, I’ve learned that that is my superpower. So I think the more that you can tune into yourself and use it in your creations, the better. You’ve definitely got a handle on what works for you and what doesn’t. That’s just awesome.
So what’s coming up for you next?
Well, some exciting things are coming up. Because we lived in the Bay Area for 20 years, I have a lot of connections there. Our grown children and grandchildren are still over there, so we travel over there a lot. toward the end of last year, it really became clear to me that I have a deep desire to connect with the art community, the art admirers and collectors in the Bay Area.
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So I also realized that the only thing keeping me from doing that was fear, fear of rejection, fear of criticism. Again, fear that I might not even hear it, just thinking that someone might think, who does she think she is? That whole, you know, weird thing that we have. So I decided that I don’t want to let the fear of my ego being bruised to be
The obstacle that keeps me from new opportunities is just pride. And it’s silly. It’s like, no, there are artists better than me, and there are artists coming up behind me, just beginning. And that’s always going to be true. And art is so subjective. And the admiration of art is so relative that I just need to relax and embrace doing what I enjoy, which again, there are so many
unspoken or spoken rules like you say that artists think they have to follow and it’s good to learn what do they say it’s good to learn the rules so you can know how to break them you know and one of the things that I’ve always felt kind of bad about is that I love a wide range of styles mediums a lot of I don’t want to just be a pony
What’s the word? I don’t want to do just one thing. And I developed an entire theme of work, or work from the theme of the things I loved in Japan, the koi and the geisha. So I’ve reached out to some connections in the Bay Area and several things have opened up that’s very exciting. I have one painting in a gallery in Pacific Grove called the 480 Lighthouse Gallery.
I’ve also entered a contest there where you paint a little square on location and they’re gonna have a little contest for that. I did some koi acrylic koi for that one and then I spent I did a really fun Plein air trip with a friend of mine who is better at plein air than I am So that’s another thing. I love to learn and challenge myself
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So plein air does not come natural for me. I’m a very fair weather outdoor person. When it’s perfect, I love to be outside. And when it’s not, I just want to be home with the air conditioner on or the heater or the whatever. But my peer group up here, several of them love plein air painting. And I’ve seen their beautiful work. And I know the principle behind painting from life and learning to paint quickly. So I’ve challenged myself to learn that. And it has been…
very uphill battle for me. I have left almost in tears many times thinking I hate painting, I’m never gonna paint again. But I finally decided that I’ve got to give it a better chance by actually doing it more. And so I went on a little trip to the coast, California coast with a friend. We did Capitola, Santa Cruz, we did six days of painting, painted every day, sometimes twice a day.
And it really helped me get over that hurdle. And now I no longer see it as something I hate and avoid. I’m still not at the place of loving it and it being my thing, but I’ve seen the benefit to my work and I ended up with pieces that I didn’t hate. I still needed to finish them at home. I couldn’t just finish in the field, but maybe later.
into that end or in line with that thinking I have signed up for the plan air convention in Reno and Tahoe at the end of May, which is again a very scary thing investing a lot of time a lot of money and I can get obsessive about okay, where are we staying? How comfortable am I going to be? How can I get all my supplies out in the field so that I have what I need? I’m a little bogged down with the logistics right now, but
I’m excited about it. think it’ll be a growing learning experience. And the biggest thing I’m looking forward to this next year, which has sort of already begun, our daughter and son-in-law live in Corte Madera, which is in Marin County. And I found out that Marin has a open studio every year in May, the first two weekends of May, and it’s open to everyone. You don’t have to live there. I’ve participated in the Sierra Art Trails
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up in our area for different years, three years in a row and one before COVID. And that was a great learning experience, made lots of connections. Again, it’s a hard deadline to get a lot of work done, get prints and cards made, get things priced. So that has worked well for me. But again, I thought I wonder what it would be like to be in a different area. So I
reached out to Marin Open Studios and asked them about joining. They were very welcoming. I signed up and joined. And then I had to go through the process of trying to find a shared group space so that I can show there since I don’t have a home or studio there to show in. I actually, again, at every step, there was like another scary thing to go through. It’s like, okay.
First, seeing if my work was of the quality I would be accepted. Turns out there’s no real jury process to getting in. You just pay the money and sign up and you’re in. But then once I started looking for locations, I found out that some of the locations that were more desirable are juried locations. And it was tempting to just go with an easy co-op space that wasn’t juried, but…
I instead reminded myself, what do I have to lose? So they could say no for whatever reason. They may have a myriad of reasons that I wouldn’t be invited in, but I decided to go for it. And I was shocked and thrilled to find out that I was accepted in, I believe there’ll be 15 artists at this location and there’ll be close to 300 artists in the Ope Marin Open Studio.
the end of May, that will be open. I just have one piece there, lots of beautiful art for people who are looking to get an idea of what will be available during the Marin Open Studios. They’ll also have a preview exhibition in Sausilito at the Sausilito Center for the Arts, I believe is what it’s called. So that’s my big exciting thing. I mean,
So I’ll be showing the first two weekends, Saturday and Sunday of May at the Marin Art and Garden Center, which is a beautiful location. And I’ve already gone and checked it out and I’m excited about that. As part of the Marin Open Studios, they’re also having some pop-up shows in other locations. And just last week, I dropped off one piece at one of those showcases.
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and it’s at the Marin Community Foundation. It’s a beautiful office space. can’t remember how many artists they have in this show. I want to say it’s about a hundred. I could be wrong, but it’s all large pieces and it’s a really gorgeous space. And normally the office is not open to the public, but during from now until, well actually from February 13th, from now until…
Truthfully, there’s a lot of exciting things. Our group here, Yosemite Sierra Artists, has found gallery space. I’m hoping to be involved in that. I used to be a member at the Mariposa Sierra’s Artists Gallery, and I hear a spot is opening up there. I should be getting in sometime in the spring. So I’ve got about a window of one month to get a bunch of paintings done for all these deadlines I’ve created for myself.
Wow, you’re just blooming, blooming, blooming. So our time is coming to a close. What advice would you give someone who has some resistance and needs a little push to get over the bend?
I would say depending on where you are, if you’re a newbie, newbie, brand new beginner, I say get a sketchbook, pencil, waterproof ink pen, and an inexpensive set of watercolors and just start playing. That’s number one. Number two, if you already have some experience, but you really want to advance, connect with other artists, find those artists communities, get plugged in. And once you do, you’ll find they have so many resources to share.
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and take classes. There’s so much free internet instruction. But again, for me, it worked better to actually work out a little money and have a time limit, you know, attend a class. I was more likely to show up if I prepaid for something, I was more likely to show up. It’s easy to talk myself out of doing art when it’s like, I just want to sketch every day, you know, but
I paid the money and I’m going to miss it if I don’t show up. Those are the things that helped me. But everybody’s different, you know?
Well, thank you, Theresa. You have been an inspiration.
You’re welcome. Thank you for having me.
That’s great. I can’t say enough about creativity and how it fills your life with joy. So whatever your creative thing is, do it. And then do it some more. I wish you inspired action. Well, that’s a wrap. Please visit painterlylife.com, like, subscribe and share. Don’t miss an episode or a new muse just for you.
Shannon Grissom (33:45.74)
I’ll see you next time.
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