In the book congdon includes interviews from prolific artists as well as her own input on the topic of how. Finding your artistic style or your own voice is the gateway to attracting the right audience and potential customers, helps you cut through the noise and show up confidently online when it comes time to share your work. Im afraid that i am in a bit of a copycat phase, but i feel that is a phase that many artists have to go through to find their own voice. But developing such singular artistry requires effort and persistence.
Fine artist, illustrator and author lisa congdon is best known for her colorful paintings and hand lettering. It was all about finding ones artistic voice, because i knew everything after would come naturally. A typical day in the life of a professional artist, where to focus, and why the permission to chill is so crucial to longterm success. A cover band is a band that plays other peoples music, and they often fill music venues and make money, but at the end of the night people go home singing the music. This is the artists voice and its a mixture of message, style, and technique. It seems that everyone has issues and challenges in their lives. In my mind the water colors and painting mediums that she spoke of were like vibrato frequencies and belting verses falsetto or even wether i use the major or minor scale to sing original songs.
In this episode i chat with creative superhero lisa congdon about her new book find your artistic voice. People may present themselves as together, having it all etc. His book, making your watercolors work, provided examples of simple arrangements of light and dark passages. No matter your medium or genre, having your voice is the holy grail. They may know that their work isnt really fresh but not know what to do to break through into. Discover your artistic individuality when you listen to your visual voice and follow your intuitive artistic truth, you feel energized, stimulated and connected. Finding your artistic voice with artist, author and illustrator lisa congdon march 9, 2020 21.
The essential guide to working your creative magic is lisas latest book. Finding your voice as an artist you have the opportunity to create your own unique stamp on the world. Your artistic voice is what sets you apart and, ultimately, what makes your work interesting, distinctive, worthy of discourse, and desired by others, writes lisa. Your creative juices are flowing and you receive the energy needed to create what you feel. A way you can approach this is by determining which particular medium is right for yousculpture, photography, painting, printmaking. I am a singer and this book has great tips that can also help me find my artistic voice. An essential guide by lisa congdon to help you find your. Finding your artistic voice with images reading art. Find your artistic voice by lisa congdon, 9781452168869, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Using the medium of the voice, jennifer shares her insights and experiences as a voice coach. This book helps you answer those questions and more to give your artistic self a voice. When i started coaching and leading photography retreats based upon the artists voice i did the same type of research. Finding your artistic voice the watercolor teacher.
Buy find your artistic voice 01 by congdon, lisa isbn. Bestselling author, artist, and illustrator lisa congdon brings her expertise to this guide to the process of artistic selfdiscovery. Indeed, not all of us will invent cures for diseases or split the atom. An essential guide to working your creative magic, the portlandbased creative talks about the importance of developing your own style and how it can set you apart lisa has spent many years working hard to get to where. As i read this book i recalled the first piece of art i ever bought. A lot of people ask about and are concerned about their artistic style. This groundbreaking book on singing and the psychology of performance is a mustread for every artist working today. The second, ten things to think about while finding your voice is a more comprehensive list of things to think about while you sort out for yourself what is important in your artwork. Youll paint with expression and confidence, so that you can act on your.
Every artist has experience with finding their voice. Might i also add one thing that will most definitely help you to find your own voice, and thats to experience other methods of artistic expression dance, sing, music, sculpt, paint. This memory contributes useful images to my own voice. This is the artist s voice and its a mixture of message, style, and technique. The essential guide to working your creative magic. This question of how to anchor oneself firmly to the bedrock of honesty and selfknowledge is fundamental to the quest for finding ones creative purpose and direction, or what folds calls artistic voice. Finding and sharing your artistic voice artsy shark. Now, by no means am i a worldclass drawer or painter my creative gift has always. Forget art style, find your artistic voice youtube. Artists often work for a long time without finding their artistic voice. Its not something you can simply learn through books or study. She is the author of eight books, including the starvingartistmythsmashing art inc. A few years ago, lisa asked her followers what they wanted to learn from her.
Since the early days of the accidental creative podcast weve closed off with the phrase cover bands dont change the world you need to find your unique voice if you want to thrive. An inspirational speaker featured by relevant magazine and christianity today, shes guided thousands to detox stress and experience gods love through soul care, encouragement, and prayer. The essential guide to working your creative magic by lisa congdon is a book ive been waiting for my whole life, and it came to me at the perfect time as i started reading it the day after i set out on a journey to find my voice what to expect in the book. What is an artists voice and how to find it weallsew. We chat through the essential ingredient of openness to experience being fluent in your medium is essential to flow state how quantity leads to quality. In this episode we talk about the tips and tricks of finding your creative voice. More than anything, people wanted to unravel the mystery of what their voice and style were. This is a book about what it feels like to sit in your studio or classroom, at your wheel or keyboard, easel or camera, trying to do the work. Find your artistic voice audiobook lisa congdon audible. Exploring technology, art and design with youtuber brad colbow february 24, 2020 20. Renowned for her unique colourful paintings and hand lettering, lisa congdon is now sharing some of her secrets to success in a new book. On what led lisa to write find your artistic voice. This oneofakind book helps artists navigate the influence of creators they admire, while simultaneously appreciating the value of their. Finding your visual voice is the only book that offers stepbystep painting demonstrations, visual examples and engaging exercises to help you build a customized creative process.
Finally, the last post will be on writing an artist statement, which is essentially a description of your artistic voice. Dictionaries define the word muse in different ways either as a verb, a noun, or as a proper noun verb to muse. When it comes down to it we all have our demons, selfdoubt and insecurities. I think this is exactly the place to find your artistic voice. I read find your artistic voice by lisa congdon jess. Just a band of darker values sandwiched between two bands of light. This oneofakind book helps artists navigate the influence of creators they admire, while simultaneously appreciating the value of their personal journey. She works for clients around the world, and is the author of eight books, including the her latest.
Its what makes each of their works vital and particular. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Overcoming wellmeaning, but unhelpful advice to express your unique gifts. Finding your own artistic style, that way of painting that makes a piece recognisably and uniquely yours, is something a lot of us find challenging.
In the evening hour, when mum and dad have farm chores to do, i love to settle with a book and pretend im busy too. The experience will allow you to put a different voice into your work, and shed some insights. It was a pen and ink drawing sold at the summer festival in ann arbor, circa 1973. One of the hardest things about being a photographer or artist can be finding a creative voice that reflects the uniqueness of your own spirit. For me, much of my own musical voice lies in broadway show tunes and pop music of the early 1980s that moved me as a youngster, before terms like good and bad meant anything. The essential guide to working your creative magic august 2019. It seems finding your voice as an entrepreneur, as a community member, as a career person is vital. Id check out sally hogsheads new book how the world sees you i was reading it the other day, and thats what prompted me to want to write this today. My father, who became a sculptor at age 68, says that at some point you have to lean into it and face the fear and begin to. The mechanics of finding your artistic voice, and how to recognize when it shows up. By artistic voice, im referring to ones artistic thumbprint the idiosyncratic stuff that makes an artist. Bestselling author, artist, and illustrator lisa congdon brings her expertis.
This oneofakind book helps artists navigate the influence of creators they admire, while simultaneously appreciating the value of their bestselling author, artist, and illustrator lisa congdon brings her expertise to this guide to the process. Bonnie gray is the author of whispers of rest and finding spiritual whitespace, wife, and mom to two boys. Finding your own artistic voice can involve reconnecting to those things that used to move you. Finding your artistic voice with artist, author and. At the same time, you experience a sense of peace and calm, the satisfaction of doing what you are meant to do. Find your artistic voice helps artists and creatives identify and nurture their own visual identity. Find your artistic voice by lisa congdon signed copy. Everyone has a different process for finding his voice. The essential guide to building your career as an artist and her latest book find your artistic voice. To find your voice you merely need to uncover, allowing the styles and voices of others to fall to the floor, becoming just a part of your artistic past. Pdf find your artistic voice download full pdf book. Find your artistic voice audiobook by lisa congdon.