MAKING ART A PRACTICE demonstrates how to create an art practice that catapults the artist at any level into self-awareness, artistic clarity and action. When we see art as a practice, we let can let go of limiting concerns regarding skill, recognition or money and allow our unique creativity to emerge and shine in ways that are vital to our lives. MAKING ART PRACTICE walks us through exercises designed to develop the personal qualities necessary to create authentic art and to live as artists in the world. Most books on art practice focus on art techniques that build skills or overcome creative blocks through playful exercises or writing. MAKING ART A PRACTICE offers exercises that build the personal qualities critical to being an artist in the world - such as courage, the ability to look and see and connection to the true creative self. Growing these qualities and insights offers a slower but surer way of overcoming self-limiting beliefs and connecting with our true creative selves where creative energy flows and we do work that feels vital. This is a hands-on, experiential, action book designed to get the reader working on art-making and exploring possibilities for being an artist. MAKING ART A PRACTICE sees engagement with art as being less about end results or product and more about the self-awareness and competence that frees the artist to explore and create work that matters. The book provides techniques with which to grow and develop creative connection so that artists can create a vital, engaged creative life. MAKING ART A PRACTICE is more rigorous than some recent popular books on getting started with art such as Keri Smith's 'Wreck This Journal' and Austin Kleon's 'Steal Like An Artist.' But it has some of the same sense of fun and not taking ourselves too seriously.