The Artist’s Journey

Gesso Girls: Should You Do Inktober/Sketchtober?

Today Julia & Erin talk about their experience, or anticipated experience, with Inktober/Sketchtober. They encourage listens to think about their intended outcome for the 31 day art challenge and to create realistic goals so this community challenge can be what it was always intended to be: fun!
For the official Inktober schedule, check out @inktober on instagram. 
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Gesso Girls: Part 4: Let Other People Love Your Work

Today Julia & Erin discuss the final part of falling back in love with your art, and that is to share the work and share the love. 
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Gesso Girls: Part 3 - Make Your Creative Habit FUN

Today Julia & Erin discuss how they have made showing up to their practice easier, and also what hurdles have stood in their way. They also touch on the importance of having fun with this habit and not taking ourselves too seriously, because at the end of the day if it's not fun then why are we doing it???
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Gesso Girls: Part 2 - Get Rid of The Inner Critic & Make Work You LOVE

Today's episode is part two of the four part series all about falling back in love with your art. 
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Gesso Girls: Falling Back in Love With Your Art Part 1 -The Process

This is the start of a 4 part series where Julia and Erin will discuss falling back in love with your process, today's topic is al about falling in love with your process. 
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Gesso Girls: The Lies We Were Told As Artists

Today Erin & Julia discuss the lies they were told as artists. There are so many misconceptions about being an artists, and the profession itself so they decided to share the lies they have heard or been told in order to disprove them and help other artists see through the deception. 
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Gesso Girls: Being A Creative Leader

Today Julia & Erin discuss creative leadership, and what makes someone a good leader. They find that it's not always the loudest person in the room or the one with the most experience, it's the creative who is present and listening. 
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Gesso Girls: How to Take Your Art Seriously

Today Julia talks about how her journey with mental health has lead her to take herself and her art more seriously. She emphasizes how taking your art seriously isn't just an action, it's a perspective shift and sometimes it requires slowing down and pointing yourself in a new direction. 

Gesso Girls: Battling Overwhelm as a Creative

Anyone else feeling overwhelmed? Julia & Erin are too, and figured they can't be the only artist out there who feels this way, so they decided to chat about it. 
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Gesso Girls: Finding Time for Creativity Mid-Summer

Today Julia & Erin encourage everyone to plan their own artist retreat. This can be an artist staycation, or hit the road and plan an actual trip with creativity as the focus. It's so important to change up our environment and make little moments special in order to spark creativity and inspiration. Also discussed is how to balance finding time to make art among all the summer activities and social plans ramping up!