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Energize and Recharge Your Creative Spirit

A variety of encouraging and helpful posts for your artistic journey

Whether you are just setting out on your artistic path, or you've been on it for quite some time, we all need encouragement. In these posts, you'll find inspiration, motivation, and useful tips.

Idaho sunset photo

  • Sep 22, 2025

Explore My Process! From Photo to Abstracted Landscape Painting.

See a short video that shows my process to complete this abstracted landscape painting.
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sunflowers with a bumblebee

  • Sep 17, 2025

What I So Easily Miss....

I'm endeavoring to slow my pace and take more time to observe and reflect.
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In a Creative Rut?

  • Aug 27, 2025

Three Ways (and more) to Get Creatively "UnStuck"

You don't have to stay creatively "stuck"! Restore your inspiration and motivation...
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two acrylic paintings by Helen Read, Wheaton, IL

  • Aug 6, 2025

What Happens When an Artist and Poet Collaborate?

The thought was intriguing!  Collaborating with someone I didn't know for an entry into a group show.  Yes, I thought, why not?
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  • Jul 22, 2025

What is my Secret Sauce on my Artistic Journey??

That evening as I began to investigate, I found a world that would change my life and the way I would step into my artistic future.
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Bird's nest - beauty of nature

  • Jun 18, 2025

How Quietness Inspires Creativity

For those of us with a creative design, taking time to recharge and refuel is vital for our best work to be done.
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  • Mar 3, 2025

Abstract Painting ~ A Demonstration

...this demonstration shows the process I used as I painted Thundering Waves.
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  • Feb 4, 2025

The Power of Starting with Thumbnail Sketches

For either drawing or painting, a thumbnail is an important preliminary plan; 
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profile of a lion

  • Oct 20, 2024

It's a Creative Mystery!

C.S.Lewis, celebrated author, began the Narnia series with a most unlikely picture in his head
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Landscape of summer day

  • Sep 30, 2024

A Painter's Process - Painting a Landscape Painting

How I get a strong start on a new landscape painting
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woman looking through a foggy window

  • Jun 1, 2024

What to do in a Creative Ebb

Constructive things we can do ~ fun things ~ to reignite the creative spirit.
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  • Jan 22, 2024

How to Begin and Finish an Autumn Landscape Painting

Concept to finish - a video demonstration of an inside, “studio” look the creation of Autumn Radiance.
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A few more links you might like:

Helen's Gallery of Paintings

The online gallery features Helen's paintings and drawings

Helen's YouTube Channel

Videos that cover a wide range of topics in visual art. Be sure to subscribe to my channel while you are there.