To shine my own light -- that's my quest. As for music, well, it’s just the scent of the rose.
- Bobby McFerrin
As creatives we search for the best we have in us, the most insightful poem, the painting that reflects the beauty within, the novel that probes deepest, and then we try to offer that to the world.
Art is simply a result of expression during right feeling. It's a result of a grip on the fundamentals of nature, the spirit of life, the constructive force, the secret of growth, a real understanding of the relative importance of things, order, balance. Any material will do. After all, the object is not to make art, but to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable. . . The brush stroke at the moment of contact carries inevitably the exact state of being of the artist at that exact moment into the work.
- Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
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Below, a downloadable page you can use for your own journaling. To download visit here or clicking on the image below. It is 8.5 x 11 inches in size so easy to print out.
Below that, a two-page spread from the upcoming Heron Dance journal, A Life Examined.
More on the thinking behind the journals here.
Recent Projects And Random Thoughts
September 2nd, Heron Dance will launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund the printing of the five year quarterly journals described here. There will be a number of premiums associated with this campaign including signed first editions of our latest book, Nurturing the Song Within, art prints and other bonuses. You can keep up-to-date on the launch on Kickstarter here.
The new art journal, Nurturing The Song Within, explores the inner work that underlies creative work, and creating a unique life.
If you are not subscribed to either or both Heron Dance Art Studio Substacks, you can do that here:
Nurturing the Song Within, a chronicle of one artist’s efforts to evolve.
A Pause for Beauty, a celebration of the beauty and mystery of the natural world.
