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Be an Artist (or Just Live Like One)
Paperback
Business of ArtGeneral ArtSelf-Help
Publisher: Boheme Eclat Press LLC
Published: Nov 6 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Be an Artist (or Just Live Like One) is a powerful, inspiring companion to higher creativity, designed for a full year of meaningful practice. It offers 300 focused invitations you can return to throughout the days and seasons of your life, helping you awaken your senses, refine your vision, and reclaim your creative power.
This is a practical guide to living artfully and well, whether you're a working artist or someone who just feels a quiet pull toward making things. No rigid program, no guilt-trip-just more than 300 small, beautiful ideas and exercises that fit into real days: kids, jobs, laundry and all. A gentle but radical path of creative renewal-whether you paint or garden, write or build, teach or dream.American realist painter and bestselling author Nina Gates brings the authority of a working artist to the page, distilling decades of experience in both paint and prose into clear, compassionate guidance. With an international perspective and an unwavering eye for beauty, she leads you into the luminous and mysterious corners of your inner creative life-then shows you how to bring what you find back into the world.
For beginners and professionals, blocked and secret artists, dabblers, crafters, and everyday people who know they were meant to make more.
These pages invite you to notice more, to care more, and to create more-slowly reshaping your days so that living like an artist becomes not a fantasy, but a practiced, embodied way of life. Taken together, the exercises, reflections, and small rituals in this book form a quiet but radical path of artistic renewal, no matter where you begin. - Recharge your energy, focus, and confidence- Clarify your vision
- Quiet self-doubt
- Reconnect with the work that matters most to you Become the person you've always wanted to be-at any age, in any season
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