Tag: studio routine

Mandi's studio isn't what you'd picture when you think of an artist's workspace. Walk through the door and you're hit with mess. Real mess. Papers piled on papers, images cut partway through, notes written in whatever state of mind she was in at the time. In this studio visit, the multidisciplinary artist explains why her space looks the way it does and what all that disorder actually makes possible. She talks about how thoughts move from her journals onto canvas without getting squeezed into a plan, why she works on several…

In this studio visit, we step into the working world of a Brazilian clinical psychologist and visual artist Bruna Gazzi Costa who paints between therapy sessions and long, quiet weekends. She shares how listening shapes her practice, why acrylic paint fits her routine, and how working inside a shared art space during the pandemic helped her stay steady. From early morning light to unfinished canvases waiting on the walls, this conversation offers a look at a studio shaped by time, care, and daily life.

The last thing artists expect is needed to stay consistent is emotional skills, but let me break it down for you. Most of us think being consistent is all about discipline, rigid schedules, or hours locked in the studio. Like, “if I just grind long enough, I’ll magically produce every day.” But the truth is way messier, and way more human. What really keeps you showing up is how you deal with the doubts, the distractions, the little inner voices that whisper, “Maybe today isn’t worth it.” That’s where emotional skills…