Unleash yourCreative Flowto work more freely and effectively!
Arte of Now: Practice of Immediacy in the Arts™ by Nicolee McMahon describes a technique that allows life to guide you in creating art. Whether you are a novice or professional, this approach will deepen your creative intuition: visual artists, dancers, musicians, writers.
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Unleash yourCreative Flowto work more freely and effectively!
Arte of Now: Practice of Immediacy in the Arts™ by Nicolee McMahon describes a technique that allows life to guide you in creating art. Whether you are a novice or professional, this approach will deepen your creative intuition: visual artists, dancers, musicians, writers.
Why are we so afraid to paint on a blank surface? Because it elicits so many uncertain emotions of success, failure and potential rejection. But as young children we never gave painting a second thought because we did not label our lack of knowing as good or bad; rather, our uncertainty was an adventure.
In the Arte of Now: Practice of the Immediacy in the Arts™, Nicolee has provided a wonderfully pragmatic way to work with our non-judgmental selves by fusing Zen “nowness” teachings with the basics of art. Whichever art field you are in, whether an amateur or a professional, this book will help you work more freely and effectively.
—Ken Goldman AWS, NWS, Fine Artist, Instructor, Author and President-National Watercolor Society
When bringing the full expression of yourself as a creator into the flow of every moment, the voices of the critical mind are usually the loudest. In Nicolee’s new book, she uses the Practice of Immediacy in the Arts, “PIA,” as the modality to get into the creative flow. Her clarity of description in how to make your emotions, feelings and experiences in the moment part of the process, is ZEN awareness. Going with the flow compassionately will be a central role in your ability to make and refine not just your art but your life.
—Stephanie Goldman, Fine Artist, Instructor, Author and Secretary-National Watercolor Society.
Nicolee McMahon offers us a mature integration and mastery of spiritual practice and creative expression. Grounded in years of Zen practice, she presents a simple yet dynamic approach to unleashing creativity by accessing openness, not leaving anything out, and living in the moment. PIA will appeal to a broad range of people, from novices curious about their own creativity to those already adept at creative expression.
—Wendy Egyoku Nakao, Roshi, Abbot and Head Teacher, Zen Center of Los Angeles
The creative moment is wide open to anyone willing to trust the process Nicolee McMahon describes in her illuminating book Arte of Now: Practice of Immediacy in the Arts™. An experiential method developed by McMahon, the practice of immediacy seems well suited for students of the arts to explore the “moment of Now” as they deepen their creative instincts and intuition.
—Sandra Fluck, founder of bookscover2cover