Tag: art routines

Inspiration doesn’t wait until the laundry’s folded or your inbox is clear. It tends to crash into you while you’re in the middle of reheating leftovers or racing to meet a deadline you swore you’d tackle earlier. And honestly, that timing can feel cruel. You want to grab the idea, sketch it out, let it breathe, but the rest of life is standing there with its arms crossed, reminding you it comes first. That’s the real struggle of being an artist in everyday life. You’re not living in some cabin in…

You didn’t pick up a paintbrush, pen, or camera because life was picture-perfect. You picked it up because something inside you needed out. Maybe it was frustration, perhaps heartbreak, maybe that low hum of anxiety that never seems to shut up. Whatever it was, you knew keeping it bottled in wasn’t an option. So you made. And that act of making, messy as it was, started to stitch you back together in ways you didn’t expect. Here’s the funny thing: you probably weren’t trying to heal at first. You were just…