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Day 5 – A Spiritual Thinker to Watch

The Search, by Mary Gow
The Search, watercolor and pencil on paper, by Mary Gow
This week’s MarieTV featured Steven Pressfield, (author of one of my favorite books, “The War of Art) now releasing his new book, Turning Pro.

You can find Forleo’s interview of Pressfield here.

Let me back up a few steps.

Marie Forleo is the star of MarieTV. I first heard about her through a webinar hosted by the master of LinkedIN, Lewis Howes.

I didn’t sign up for her course but a friend of a friend did. And I went to Forleo’s website and found myself liking the content and watching some of her videos. I signed up for her weekly installment of wisdom mixed with her fashionable flair delivered on MarieTV.

I believe Forleo is definitely a woman of influence to watch. She impresses me as an intelligent, confident woman with a humanitarian heart.

Oprah Winfrey believes so and she’s featuring her with Mastin Kipp and Gabrielle Bernstein on her Super Soul Sunday show tomorrow about “The New Generation of Spiritual Thinkers,” at 11am Eastern Standard Time and 11am Pacific Standard Time.

You can tune into Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday tomorrow via live stream!

My painting today is along the lines of the Super Soul energy. You can see how I’m inspired by Wassily Kandinsky‘s lines.

Who do you believe is a spiritual thinker to watch?

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Day 3 – One Key to Greatness

The House on the Hill, watercolor & pencil by Mary Gow
The House on the Hill, watercolor & pencil on paper, by Mary Gow
Have you been feeling like you’re receiving many messages coming through like an avalanche?

Today’s painting depicts this feeling of a special time, as though we are a house on the edge of the horizon, making a ceremonious passage.

While painting today I saw parts of Timothy Ferriss on Creative Live.

It was day two of a two day workshop that highlighted Ferriss’ new book, The Four Hour Chef, and included quite an assortment of lifestyle insights from cooking, basketball, archery, to entrepreneurship and how to get to your first dollar on your new idea.

I found the section with Rick Torbett about eye dominance and progression of sequence of movements in basketball fascinating!

“All that’s between you and a great shot is repetition,” said Torbett.

That applies with most anything doesn’t it?

What’s between us and anything great is to keep going after the first rejections, first mistakes, first drafts.

Keep going. “You’re better than you think,” said Ferriss.

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Day 2 of 30 Days of Painting

Move Move, by Mary Gow
“Move Move,” watercolor and color pencil, by Mary Gow
First Drawing Using Aeolian Harp App by Mary Gow
First Drawing Using Aeolian Harp App by Mary Gow

Imagine you’re on a boat that’s near the shore, gliding through tall blades of grass… here’s my second day’s painting.

Checking on Abbey Ryan’s blog I read about the Painting-a-Day “PAD” phenomenon. Apparently if began back in 2007 or earlier and Duane Keiser had a lot to do with the movement.

It impresses me as the visual artist’s equal to writer’s morning pages (a la The Artist’s Way).

So I still write every day but added to it producing at least one painting a day.

For several months I was doing one to three iPhone drawings a day using the apps “Harmonious” and “Aeolian Harp.”

As an aside, for ideas for running your own business, tune into http://www.creativelive.com/live and watch Timothy Ferris, author of the Four Hour Body and Four Hour Work Week, live today and tomorrow!

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Day 1 of a Painting a Day for 30 Days

"Bloom, Bloom!" watercolor by Mary Gow
Bloom, Bloom! – watercolor by Mary Gow
My trip to New York (see my previous post) inspired me to experiment with a new routine.

Not only that but coming back to watch a team.

Though I’m not normally watching baseball, I couldn’t help but watch the San Francisco Giants clutch the 2012 World Series!

The inspiration from the Giants reminded me of the power of every day implementation. They were on a streak and had a game almost every day within a 20 day time frame. They got better and better, seemingly spurred by such an intense schedule from the playoffs. (I can’t believe I’m writing about baseball).

Something clicked for me. The ‘ah ha’ reminder that creativity is a habit like anything else.

So back to the spirit of The Artist’s Way and Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, I’m posting a painting every day for the next 30 days.

The one above is from using color pencils and watercolors and it’s 5″ x 6″.