#artjournalUnmoderated tagAll postsTrendingHotNewPromotedPayoutsalchemystones in #hive-148441 • 22 hours agoArt and Creativity Journal: Only a Month to Go! It always surprises me just how fast time moves on by! I'm certain the experience is different for full-time artists who are only focused on their creative endeavors, but…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 27 days agoArt and Creativity Journal: The Tiniest ThingsIn the last update I was talking about painting the small things that serve us well as "impulse items" at shows and festivals. While double checking and quality sorting…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 7 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Cleaning Out the Old to Make Room for the New!Over the past 3 days, I have been spending quite a bit of time sorting through some of my old boxes and bins. It's not exactly creative work, but I decided that it's…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 4 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: June Gloom in MayGreetings, from the creative doldrums of my mind! The climate around here usually provides us with something we call the "June Gloom." It has salchemystones in #hive-148441 • 4 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Questioning My Assumptions Lately, I have not been feeling very creative. Each time I have sat down in an attempt to start painting something, I've gotten back up after about 5 minutes and decided that I…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 6 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Some Weeks Are Better Than Others!Normally, Monday is a reserved for the weekly update on the work I managed to do in the course of the previous seven days. That is to say, the painting work I did.  , I spent some time today working on social media updates. Specifically, I was responding to a request from Patreon to "update…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 2 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: New Work... FinishedFinally managed to put a finish coat on painted stones from earlier in the spring, resulting in what I guess we would call new inventory even though it is kind of old! ![AS064-WholeGroup.jpg](alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 7 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Moving Inventory Around... Moving inventory around — specifically moving items I have had for sale all over the web to a single location on Etsy — is really quite a tedious process. ![AS-0004-Stone-Blue.jpg](alchemystones in #hive-148441 • last monthArt and Creativity Journal: Routine Busy Work Trying to get a bit of momentum going, I spent much of the day doing some routine "busy work" relating to getting ready for fall show season. It's not exactly…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 6 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Wear and Touch-UpsThe thing about objects that are meant to be picked up — and used as meditation stones or something similar — is that they invariably end up getting picked up! ![2293.jpg](alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 3 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Events Falling Into PlaceAlthough my creativity hasn't been anything to write home about lately, a few peripheral things are falling into place. Specifically, our outside events schedule is…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 7 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Art vs. LifeI have been rather remiss in posting updates for a while. My most accurate explanation for why that is would be to say that life is interfering with my creativity! ![AS24-006a.jpg](alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 7 months agoCreating Metaphysical Art: What is Real and What is Imaginary?One of our "gimmicks" — or marketing approaches — we use when it comes to presenting Alchemy Stones to the public has always been that they have "metaphysical value." ![AS005-Chakra4-6.jpg](alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 29 days agoArt and Creativity Journal: Painting Some Small Stuff One of the things about doing outside events and shows is that we invariably have to have an extensive stock of quick pick-up impulse items in the under $10 range. ![3418.jpg](alchemystones in #hive-148441 • last monthArt and Creativity Journal: More Newly Finished Work Sometimes, you just have to forge ahead regardless of whether you feel like it or not. So, today I made myself go to work on finishing another batch of stones that had been…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 6 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: "Cleaning House" is a Lot of Work!Undertaking major changes, whether it is to your life, or to a process within that life is often more work than we originally think. As I have written aalchemystones in #hive-148441 • 7 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Last Week I Painted — Week Five, 2026This time, we not only made it to Week Five of my new work recaps, but also to the month of February; conitnuing to share painted stones completed during the previous week.…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 6 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Last Week I Painted — Week Eight, 2026Week eight was an extremely modest week, as far as painting work is concerned, but continuing on with creating this 2026 "Work Catalog." These are simple photos of the stones…alchemystones in #hive-148441 • 6 months agoArt and Creativity Journal: Last Week I Painted — Week Nine, 2026Week nine turned out to be a moderately good week, creativity wise. That said, most of my time was actually spent transferring inventory to Etsy and working on creating content…
