Education author and “Genius Hour” advocate Angela Maiers might even call some of these “Habbitudes ” positive habits built on positive attitudes which help you learn and grow. So how can you nurture an “Art Mindset?” By developing positive attitudes about art and then repeating, rehearsing and practicing them over and over again until they become good habits. Don’t worry about how it will turn out- concentrate on what you can learn from the PROCESS of making art instead of whether or not you’re any “good” at art, okay? Be courageous. Too often, we become paralyzed by our insecurity about how art will turn out. Meanwhile (maybe because it’s visual/spacial and analogous instead of logical/linear/linguistic) Art can still be magical and mystical and mysterious- but at the same time approachable, practical and usable… for EVERYONE. It’s another way of working through ideas. Drawing, doodling, sketching, diagraming, designing and making art are ways of working out your thoughts. Maybe it will help if you stop thinking of “ART” as this high and mighty, holy, special, set-aside, mystical, miraculous and just think of it like reading, writing and executing mathematical functions. But as Stanford Professor and Growth Mindset guru Carol Dweck will tell you, COURAGE is part of learning- for that matter, FAILURE is a part of learning. If other people get to see it, they’ll probably have opinions about it and might just tell you what they think. Probably because art, by nature is something that others get to see.
STUDIO HABITS OF MIND BOOK PROFESSIONAL
The fact is even the most successful professional artists feel insecure. Oh you don’t think so? Well, maybe you’re just afraid to try. In the same way- even if you can’t draw a convincing stick-figure, you can still enjoy, make, use and share art. We learn to read and write even though few of us become professional authors.
Most everyone can walk or jog even though not everyone is an Olympic athlete. Art Mindset means being creative and expressive, it means thinking VISUALLY- Most of all it means having a positive, “Growth Mindset” when it comes to making art.
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