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Jun 11, 2020
3 min

The Value of Frustration

First published May 31 2019 When making art, moments of grace sometimes occur, little shots of the miraculous when something ineffable...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 11, 2020
1 min

A Birthday Present for the Muse

first posted May 2019 This week I was invited to be Eric Maisel's guest blogger on Fine Arts America https://ericmaisel.com/2019/04/26/bi...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 11, 2020
4 min

Spring Cleaning The Routine

first posted April 17th 2019 A man will enjoy today what exasperated him yesterday, wrote Jean Metzinger. I would add, and vice versa. On...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 11, 2020
4 min

The Lifespan Of Emotions.

first published April 2nd 2019 "The life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. After that we have to revive the...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 11, 2020
3 min

Equilibrium

Thinking positively, and thinking negatively don’t always do what they say on the tin. We might over focus on the torment, always...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 11, 2020
3 min

Morning Pages

first published March 5th 2019 It’s a month since I last wrote my blog; I missed the last fortnightly post. What happened? I got caught...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 11, 2020
5 min

“I Feel Nauseous Doing This.”

first published February 6th 2019 I was coaching someone who experiences waves of nausea while making work. He’s hard working, dynamic,...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
3 min

In Celebration Of Persistence.

first published January 2019 I like to call it determination. When I was in my mid twenties there was an event that confirmed the...

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Carl Jung, Faltering In The Dark, And Choosing To Dive.

Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
4 min

Carl Jung, Faltering In The Dark, And Choosing To Dive.

first published November 21st 2018 “The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to...

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Anxiety And Boredom, Excitement And Patience

Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
3 min

Anxiety And Boredom, Excitement And Patience

first published November 2018 I wrote before about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s ideas on flow, with his diagram indicating that it occurs...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
4 min

The To Don't List

first published October 24th 2018 More than one client has complained to me about the problem of having too many ideas. Each time I have...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
4 min

Motivation and Appetite

first published October 10th 2018 Thursday morning, last week, one of my teaching days, was spent giving a presentation to year 2 art...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
3 min

Back to Work

first posted September 2018 Re-introduced to Maria Popova’s wonderful Brain Pickings, I subscribed to her Sunday digest – a labyrinth of...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
3 min

Getting Personal

first published September 11th 2018 There were aspects of my upbringing that supported my freedom to create. I grew up with a lot of...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
4 min

My Good Friend, Anxiety

first published August 2018 I blame creativity coaching. In an exercise, as a coaching student, where we co-coached on the topic of our...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
3 min

Busy Times

first published August 14th 2018 It’s been a busy time; I’m preparing for an exhibition, having learned basic InDesign skills after a...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
3 min

Mistakes, Life and Light

first published August 2018 When I was a fourth year art student, I worked on the balcony in the Mackintosh at Glasgow School of Art...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
4 min

Celebrate your Supporters

first published July 2018 I love the aspect of painting that allows me to feel self reliant and free in making decisions. When the part...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
4 min

Competition And Jealousy

first published July 2018 Last week I wrote about jealousy and envy. Dipping into my metaphorical postbag, I notice that the original...

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Elise V Allan

Jun 10, 2020
4 min

The Gift Wrapped In Envy

first published July 2018 ‘The great thing about this kind of work is that every feeling that you have, every negative feeling, is in a...

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