Which song is your #MondayMotivator ?

A tabby cat is sitting on a black journal on a beat up desk

Uh. Sure. I wasn't about to use that 😂
Despite Garnet's best efforts, my November writing is going strong 💪 how are we all doing? If you're trying to hit a writing goal this month, how happy are you with it right now?
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20-Min Beginner's Qi Gong Routine for a Healthy Heart - Qi Gong Class with Lee Holden | Theresa M Drass 🪷🏞😌🕊🐠💞🫀🏝🔥🧸🌊 It's been a bit since I've offered #qigong as a #mondaymotivation, but this one, by Lee Holden, was particularly fun and effective today. It'll help put your heart into the day into a p...

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It's been a bit since I've offered #qigong as a #mondaymotivation, but this one, by Lee Holden inspired me!

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Monday Motivator: Trying Repeatedly is Succeeding Not Failing Repeating a subject, revisiting a composition, is about learning from our own paintings. Curate the pieces and try again. And again.

Deliberately painting the same subject and composition.

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Monday Motivator: Choosing Joy (in a world rife with reasons for despair) Having meaning, not merely surviving.

Choosing joy amidst the fear and tears. Art holds joy.

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Monday Motivator: The 3 Parts of Learning to Draw You have to spend time learning to draw, it doesn’t fall from the sky.

Don't say "I want to be able to draw", say "I will *learn* to draw".

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The first 5 days after the weekend are always the hardest.

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Monday Motivator: Line Speaks to the Mind Tone speaks directly to the emotions. Line speaks to the… #MondayMotivator

Line vs tone.

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Monday Motivator: Line Speaks to the Mind Tone speaks directly to the emotions. Line speaks to the... #MondayMotivator

Monday Motivator: Line Speaks to the Mind
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Monday Motivator: Hindered by Hesitation "...working intuitively ... when artistic energies are free to exert themselves without being hindered by hesitation." -- Lawrence C Goldsmith, Watercolor Bold & Free Like our "common sense" is built on knowledge and experience mixed with our inherent inclinations, so our "artistic intuition" is enhanced by technique/materials knowledge and experience. If you know what types of mark the brush in your hand can make, if you know whether a colour is opaque or transparent, then you don't have to hesitate and think about this, you can jump that over step onto the next.

Monday Motivator: Hindered by Hesitation
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🥳🎉 👏 HAPPPPPPY BIRTHDAY, Gerry Drass!! 🎁🎂🫂

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Monday Motivator: Intentional Effort Monet sometimes worked up to sixty times on the same painting…

Monet sometimes worked up to sixty times on the same painting.

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Monday Motivator: Curiosity and Impulsivity Being curious about what different art materials do and being impulsive about doing something are interlinked. #MondayMotivator

Monday Motivator: Curiosity and Impulsivity

Being curious about what different art materials do and being impulsive about doing something are interlinked. #MondayMotivator

Monday Motivator: Be a Tiny Bit Revolutionary Creating art whilst those with wealthy and power aim to destroy the ways our societies aspire to be less unequal and embraces difference is an act of resistance against the destruction and hatred.

Be a Tiny Bit Revolutionary
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The Arts Make Life More Bearable “The arts are … a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow … Sing in the shower. Dance to the r…

My last Monday Motivator of 2024 has a story about the in-house art critic and myself:
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This hits...

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Monday Motivator: The Microdecisions a Painter Makes Are The Reason “… choosing a brush, deciding where on the palette to touch it down, and where and how to apply it to the canvas, are examples of microdecisions that a gifted painter must make almost u…

It's a Monday, so there's a new post on my blog

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A Monday Motivator for Myself This one is for me.

Through everything, writing a Monday Motivator has been one thing I have tried to keep doing. A constant, a lifeline to easier times. This one is for me.
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Monday Motivator: Not Just Any Splash “There is no doubt that tossing off paint with a sharp flick of the wrist gives the picture a sense of freedom and abandon … [but] just any splash or blot that is flung onto the picture…

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Monday Motivator: Life is a Collage “My life is a collage, with time cutting and arranging the materials and laying them down, overlapping and contrasting.” Eileen Agar, quoted in “Eileen Agar’s Surrealist Sea&#8221…

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