Elise V Allan
The Freedom of Radical Grace
Guest Post by LA Bourgeois All living beings make mistakes. And, we hate to make mistakes. We go to crazy lengths not to make mistakes....
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Elise V Allan
- May 16, 2021
- 2 min
VALUING THE GAPS BETWEEN CREATIVE ACTIONS
Many of us conflate our creativity with our productivity, maybe even over compensating for the popular view of artists as lazy and...
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Elise V Allan
- 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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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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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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