Monhegan Island, Maine July 2023 Art & Psychology workshop - Join Us !

         Paint and Play Art & Psychology Workshop

July 17 - 21, 2023

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who do you think you are ?
Every child is born an artist. Before you learn to write, you draw. 
It's a natural instinct to express yourself, it's a language.
I've written many times about asking someone randomly on the street
 to draw a man and the likelihood they would draw a stick figure.
We develop interests, some early, some later in what we really focus on. 
We try different paths. Whatever you focus on intensifies. 
If what you 'do' is mostly a personal experience, it's introverted. 
With artists, unless they don't show or perform their work, in order to do the 'work' they're extroverted introverts.
So you're not a born to ' be ' an artist, surgeon or scientist, not a mechanic
 or poet or dancer or programmer. 

You are what you focus on.
Ever heard someone say, I've always wanted to ... ?
On the other hand, doing something to express you inner creative
 can be meditative, calming, energizing and help you look at things
 and situations from a different perspective in the work you do.
 Artists do that, except it's their focus.

This is what I help people realize in my art workshops. 
We observe from nature, the best teacher. 
We are experiencing light, shapes, sound, breeze and genuinely connecting
 to where we are and what we're doing in the moment.
Connecting, really being there in the moment,
 is something like listening to your favorite song and tuning out everything else 
for 2 minutes or being able to have a conversation with a good friend 
you haven't heard from in ages ... and 'remembering'.

Find that 'old friend' and you'll be surprised how many things
 will begin to change around you.
 
It's that simple J.R.
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