Ideas, Tips, & Creative Wins
for Young Artists

I attended a foraging class last night.

It felt good, but challenging, to be a beginner at something.

What I wanted to walk away with was to be able to identify berries, nuts, and mushrooms I could ...

Unfortunately we praise kids for being fast.

Fast reader. Quick learner. Got it on the first try.

Then we wonder why they come apart the first time something takes a while.

The Gap Between Not Know...

I hear this a lot from worried parents:

“I don’t know if my kid is the artistic type anymore.”

Their kid tries something new, struggles at first, and gives up before trying again.

The kid might...

They frowned at my farting booger monsters

When I was a kid, my sketchbook was filled with goofy creatures.

Farting booger monsters.

Zombies with missing eyeballs.

Scary supervillains with backsto...

“This Looks So Bad.”

At some point, every creative kid gets stuck in the same cycle.

🚨 They erase constantly.

🚨 They rip up their drawings.

🚨 They say, “Ugh, I can’t draw.”

And when they finally ...

If your child seems “over it” when it comes to drawing lately, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve lost interest in art.

In fact, it might mean they’re growing as an artist in ways that are harder to...

I make this mistake with my kids all the time—do you?

Many well-intentioned parents think that if we can just be encouraging enough, our kids will be more confident.

We say “Good job!” or “I love it...

The Easiest Way to Forming Good Habits

I tore my ACL’s in both knees. Full tears. All the way through.

I needed complete reconstructions, and so they scalped off slices of my hamstrings to re-make m...

I could draw my favorite characters from memory. Almost to perfection. I had drawn them hundreds of times.

There was just one problem…

I could only draw them in the same exact pose that I had learne...