Comments on: Set Goals, Make Your Art Happen! https://www.howtopastel.com/2021/12/set-goals-make-your-art-happen/ Info, opinion, and training on how to pastel with artist Gail Sibley BFA, MA Thu, 06 Jan 2022 09:01:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Nancy Malard https://www.howtopastel.com/2021/12/set-goals-make-your-art-happen/#comment-37946 Thu, 06 Jan 2022 09:01:16 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=19131#comment-37946 Yes Gail that’s exactly it. When we shift our thinking from being the “master” to just being the “passer”, great things can happen. Remove our “self” from the creative process and the outcome will follow (well, not always as we would wish). But we will have the courage, as you say, to start all over again. To paraphrase Stefan Zweig, we become the unwitting passer of a power higher than ourselves.
Warmly
Nancy

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2021/12/set-goals-make-your-art-happen/#comment-37924 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 19:17:49 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=19131#comment-37924 In reply to Nancy Malard.

Nancy, thank you so much for your own thoughts on this topic! I love that you’ve taken us deeper still. And yes, I agree with you about the relationship between our thoughts and our experience. And I think your meaning, when relating it to the art experience, is that when we think/believe that inspiration is everywhere, that creating comes through us, we can then let go of our own need to be the master of our creations and detach ourselves from the outcome. This in turn gives us courage to start again another day. And it’s by this continuous work that success will be inevitable. Please let me know if I’ve got this right!

Thank you again for adding your thoughts here. I also want to thank you for leaving comments as it’s reader responses that rewards me and fills my soul, keeping me going on this blogging track!
Best wishes to you!

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2021/12/set-goals-make-your-art-happen/#comment-37922 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 19:06:34 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=19131#comment-37922 In reply to Paula.

Thank you soooo much Paula for sharing your reactions and your own personal journey. I nodded my head when I read about your note on your to-do list – to set art goals. Time has a way of getting away from us and before you know it, we are at the end of yet another year. I love that you are going to set some measurable goals and that you are going to honour your sister Connie by doing so. Feel free to record any here. Visibility and accountability are too ways to make sure you get things done!
Thank you again for sharing such a personal story. Let’s do this thing!!!

]]> By: Nancy Malard https://www.howtopastel.com/2021/12/set-goals-make-your-art-happen/#comment-37663 Thu, 30 Dec 2021 08:37:48 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=19131#comment-37663 Dear Gail,
Thank you for this post, so full of thought and spirituality. And the poem is a keeper, lovely in all aspects.
Might I contribute this idea, on the subject of goals. You write “Goals are fundamentaly about what you DO”.
That certainly is a part of it, but more fundamentaly still is, one can have the goal of what one thinks. I really believe our thought determines our experience. How does this apply to art? If we realize that we ourselves are not the source of “our” creation, this frees us from ourselves and opens a much wider horizon. We can never lack inspiration because the source is inexhaustible. That doesn’t mean each piece is a masterpiece but we can have the courage to begin all over again and one day, success will be there.
With many thanks for all the work you do for us and best wishes for the coming year.
Nancy Malard

]]> By: Paula https://www.howtopastel.com/2021/12/set-goals-make-your-art-happen/#comment-37592 Tue, 28 Dec 2021 15:42:14 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=19131#comment-37592 Thanks so much, Gail, for this kick in the pants (for me)…..I still have on my to-do list, sitting on my calendar, for THIS PAST YEAR — “set art goals” — and I never did!! I did accomplish quite a few things, but it was never in a consciously ordered way. I’m going to spend quite a bit of time reflecting on these questions in your blog, and set down some MEASURABLE goals for my art practice. Time is a wasting — we never know what time will be left for each of us, so Steve Jobs’s quote is very apt. My sister died just 10 years ago, at the age of 60, due to pancreatic cancer, which didn’t give her much time to plan for those last 11 months; in her honor, I will apply myself to my art — I know Connie would have liked me to do so, and was one of my biggest cheerleaders. Thanks, Gail!!

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2021/12/set-goals-make-your-art-happen/#comment-37545 Mon, 27 Dec 2021 01:49:29 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=19131#comment-37545 ]]> In reply to Jan.

Yeah!! Raising a glass to 2022! 🍸

]]> By: Jan https://www.howtopastel.com/2021/12/set-goals-make-your-art-happen/#comment-37537 Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:07:25 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=19131#comment-37537 Painting feeds my soul and recharges the spirit. The more I learn, the more excited I feel! Here’s to 2022!

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2021/12/set-goals-make-your-art-happen/#comment-37526 Sun, 26 Dec 2021 17:26:35 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=19131#comment-37526 ]]> In reply to Lori Owen.

Lori how wonderful that 2021 was a good year for you! Love that you are committed to spending more time with all aspects of your art-making. Now make that goal SMARTER 😁

]]> By: Lori Owen https://www.howtopastel.com/2021/12/set-goals-make-your-art-happen/#comment-37513 Sun, 26 Dec 2021 05:48:27 +0000 https://www.howtopastel.com/?p=19131#comment-37513 Thanks for the encouragement! I’m pleased with how 2021 turned out. Like you, I start to wither if I’m not painting…..For 2022, I plan to spend even more time in my art space (the former dining room) working, learning and growing……Happy New Year!

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