Julie’s Blog
Whether you’re stuck in a creative rut, or just seeking new inspiration, Julie’s writing here is open to you to explore.
Getting Into A Great Internal Space To Paint
You want to paint. And you want to be on a roll, where you're really connecting to your inner life as you move paint on the canvas. Here are some ways I open up the space in my workshops and in my personal studio, giving myself the best possible shot at...
Letting go of reasonable ideas and finding your creative flow
Finding your energy, where it is versus where you think it should be, is crucial for unlocking your joy and experiencing moments of creative freedom. It can be so subtle and yet so easy to mistake frustration or discouragement for an indicator of what is actually...
To Be Alive
So often as a culture we are striving, figuring, earning, achieving, performing and our hearts run dry. We can be a little dead, still breathing-but essentially dead–don’t you think? This is one reason why I paint. This is why I help others paint, create, live—so that...
Beginners Mind Is A Great Place To Be
Beginners Mind is a great place to be. Beginner's Mind refers to having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions. In the studio I am always asking for people to have a beginner's mind when approaching the painting process. This...
Getting Things Done Without The Whip
Recently I was talking with a woman who was struggling to be both self-compassionate and accountable to her intentions. She didn’t feel like she could have both. And it got me thinking:–How common this is for so many of us who have something we want to do in life and...
The Magic Of An Intuitive Painting Workshop
Regular art classes never worked for me. I don’t bloom in instructional settings. It was when I first experienced painting in a sacred context, in a place of personal intimacy and depth that I opened up and found my inner painter alive and well. Actually, I was...
How One Brush Stroke of Freedom Can Make a Painting You Love
I will never forget this one painting experience: early on, perhaps my 4th or 5th painting ever, painting with a small women’s group in my studio; I reached a point in my painting where I felt ALMOST done. But there was something still to do. I could feel...
Masking tape can be outrageous when you’re painting
There are these creative openings that happen for you while you paint intuitively. You can’t plan them or predict them but they happen. Sometimes it’s because you change paint colors, or you find your playful self momentarily, sometimes it’s because of a new tool—like...
The Art of Asking Questions
I grew up being the one who was always asking questions. I live in questions. I love questions. One of my favorite parts of being a professional coach is asking questions. It’s really in my job description and I find there is an art to it—finding the...
Getting Physical with Paint
Tired of thinking? Need a break from working on “yourself”? Feel like “moving your energy”? Picking up a paintbrush with the intention of moving and being physical can be a wonderful way to enter into your creative process and leave thinking behind altogether. One of...
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- From Zimbabwe to Scotland, Against All Odds, with Donald Hargrove.
- My Surprising Life with Poetry with David Coleman
- Gathering The Forces of Friendship and Art Making with Joan Logghe
- The Gospel of Thomas As My Workbook with Hannah Rappaport
