Reframe Your Artistry: Mindful Tools For Art Making At Any Age

by Jessica Honig

Overview

Is there a healthier way to live moment by moment and improve creativity? The “Mindful Artist’s Toolbox” in this revolutionary book guides you toward just that. Tools include:

• Present moment awareness
• The power of the pause
• A creative pilot light
• Playfulness at any age

Activities within the book will prompt you to forget the rules of art-making and awaken your creative side. New projects will become home to infinite possibilities. That is the essence of art-making at any age. Reframe Your Artistry will remind you that you, the artist, are the most important element of the artistic toolbox. You might just need this fresh, productive inspiration to recognize that. Begin again with a new attitude and show up to a life of more purpose, fulfillment, belonging, and wonder.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733243292
Publisher:	Prodigy Gold Books, Inc.
Publication date:	12/15/2019
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Jessica Honig is a mindfulness based psychotherapist and artist in the Philadelphia area. Her clinical specialties are anxiety-related disorders and barriers to creativity. Having earned degrees from Bryn Mawr, Smith, and Harvard University, she aims to translate academic speak into something most of us can relate to, thereby growing both individual and collective opportunities. She facilitates art workshops for all ages regarding nature and repurposed supplies, aiming to broaden artistic identity.

Table of Contents

Introduction 3

Part I: Make More Art, Less Personal Conflict

Grown-ups Can’t Be Artists, and Other Excuses 15

Art Anxiety: How We Got Here and Now Where? 25

Mindful Art Making, an Overview 39

Part II: A Mindful Artist’s Toolbox – Basics

Tool # 1: Awareness

Artistic Angles 61

My Wabi-sabi Way 69

Artistic Awareness from the Inside Out 83

The Mindfulness Plate of Life 101

Tool #2: Pause

Be Who You Are, Where You Are 111

Pausing With a Pulse: Intentional Living 119

Pause like a Pro 125

Tool #3: The Pilot Light

Ignite the Pilot Light 147

Retreat to Revive 155

Tool #4: Playfulness

My Kid Can Do It 165

Get in Touch with Your Natural Curves 181

Part III: A Mindful Artist’s Toolbox – Applied

Mindful Servings 193

The Breathable Schedule 205

Pitch 213

Wearing Your Inner Artist Out 229

Maintenance Kit 243

Editorial Reviews

“This is a book that will appeal to and inspire a range of readers. Honig’s personal experience with the strategies it contains adds credence to its content and starch to its promise.”—Dr. Hoffmann Davis, founder of the Arts in Education Program, Harvard University

"It makes me want to make art…If you think you're an artistic flop, READ THIS BOOK If you think you are a life flop, READ THIS BOOK.”—Kim Trunzo, Social Worker and Budding Artist

“Artists who have become separated from their practices will appreciate the concrete and actionable exercises to realign themselves with a creative flow. This book considers the whole of a person’s life, and it is appropriate even for the busiest among us. Jessica has designed exercises that can work powerfully and quickly…”—Carrie Scanga, Printmaker and Installation Artist, Professor of Fine Arts at Bowdoin College

“It was amazing. It resonated with a lot of my own experiences.”—Kevin Manning, Musician

“By God, I absolutely love those words, ‘art pollution!’ They are a perfect and humorous label for all the crap that floats through our minds as we attempt to create even the simplest thing…”—Mollie McShane Allen, Fine Artist and Teacher

“…Would impact every has-been or wannabe-writer or fine artist who is either hesitant to begin expressing themselves or those who have indeed lost the spark to continue.”—John Whiteside, retired FBI agent, turned Writer

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