Your art needs both devotion and practical knowledge. It needs heart and action. Action without a firm foundation and awareness of who you are leads to art without the essence that makes it yours. Passion and heart without action lead to no art.
Touchstone teaches you how to create your foundation and take action to make the art you came here to make, whether that’s purely for your own pleasure or to share with a wider audience. It teaches you to find clarity in all the parts of your process, so that you can make your best, most unique-to-you art with confidence and a greater level of ease.
If you struggle with any aspect of making your art, Touchstone will show you another way. A way that is clarifying, action oriented, and most of all fits you and your life.
Perhaps you've been hearing the whispers for a while now. You know the ones I mean. They might be more than whispers at this point; they might be screams. The constant undercurrent of wanting to create and express - to draw, to paint, to write, to craft something, anything, with your hands and heart - and feeling daunted or apprehensive, or not knowing where or how to begin.
Perhaps you’ve already begun to reclaim your creative self. Perhaps you’ve taken some courses, read some blogs, bought and started to play with some supplies.
Maybe you’ve even been actively making your art for a long time now, but it still feels hard to call yourself an artist, to really own this part of yourself that has perhaps been long neglected or denied.
Whatever your stage on the journey...
if you're finding yourself coming up against the same struggles over and over
if you can't seem decipher your unique way of making art amongst all the inspiration
if you can't seem to get a rhythm going with your creative work
if you're finding progress slow going or non existent
if the mean voices are making it painful or impossible to move forward
if you're longing for a stable foundation and the confidence to make your creative work and share it with the world
...then Touchstone was created for you.
“I struggle with what Tara calls "the demons" when it comes to creating and sharing work for my business. I found so many topics covered in this course that helped reframe struggles, offering new approaches and pushing me to take action - the key change I needed with my work. I highly recommend this course for anyone struggling to take action or needing to shake things up with new perspective and experiments."Deb Dane, innercompassdesigns.com
This course is for you if:
- You're ready to start addressing the things that have been plaguing you and holding you back from making your best, truest, most satisfying creative work.
- You’re open to making changes in your life to allow your creative work the space it needs {or at least a bit more of it!}
- You’re curious, motivated and willing to take action, even though it’s hard sometimes
- You know you’d benefit from some guidance and support - doing it by yourself has been difficult and slow progress
- You’re in it for the long haul. Which really means for life. This isn’t a quick fix, but the effects can last forever.
- You want to feel more confident in your creativity, and claim it as who you are.
- You know that being actively and regularly creative is essential for your wellness and wellbeing, you’re just not sure how to make that happen.
- You'd like to reap the benefits of knowing your own processes and ways of expressing through your art that go beyond personal fulfilment to actually sharing and selling your work.
“This course is so content rich that I know I will be going back to review many sections. Tara is a kind and encouraging teacher who gently pushes you to create as only you can create. This sounds simple, but it is actually a huge challenge when there is so much “out there” to compare yourself to. Touchstone helps you plan strategies to tackle the obstacles (real and imagined!) that get in your way of doing your own unique creative work.”
Alison Kaczmarek
Course Format
AUDIOS
A series of daily downloadable audio ‘touchstones’ {with transcripts}, each one offers an encouraging, reassuring, 'reminder-ing' and rebalancing balm that you can download and listen to whenever you reach a specific sticky point in your process, or at times that will suit you as you go about your day.
We’ll cover topics such as procrastination, self doubt, mean voices, process, your creative space, finding what will work for you with your specific desires, needs and quirks, meaning, permission, inspiration, overwhelm, sharing what you make with the world, and much more.
MANUAL OF SELF
This will be your personal Book of You - the place where everything you're learning about yourself, the way you work, what you need, how you need it, and all the other things we'll uncover will go. You'll start with a basic set of pages, and the worksheets throughout the course can be added to it to create the completed manual.
PERSONAL PROJECT
Alongside that you'll have the option to create your own art adventure! You'll devise a personal project for the duration of the course with my support. This will give you the opportunity not just to explore something that interests you that could lead to a solid body of work, but also to use the lessons to deal with that anything that comes up in real time, as you work through the course.
VIDEOS
And! There are bitesize videos to give you jumping off points when you get stuck, and be inspired to try new things.
EXTRAS
Plus plenty of extra resources that support the things you're learning and kick back and enjoy while you're doing all this building!
