Artist is a Verb: A Daily Reader to Support You in Building a Creative Practice and Inspired Life

Live the life of an artist, with a commitment of just 5-minutes a day!

This book will be a companion for life for anyone who wants to begin or keep going on a creative journey. A daily splash of inspiration to

help you get started and keep going, show up for yourself, work through challenges, befriend your inner critic, embrace the blank page of creating, and celebrate your own unique creative path. Supportive readings with ideas for you to do each day to grow your creative life. Whether you choose to show up daily or regularly on your own timetable, allow yourself to receive the gifts of devotion to yourself through a Creative Practice. What is the creative dream or longing that lives inside you? Visual art, writing, dance, acting, music, singing, cooking, gardening, or any other projects or creative acts?

About a week before her mother died author Tish McAllise Sjoberg asked her if she had any regrets. The answer was yes, her mother had

always wanted to become an artist. After 73 years, that was her regret. Not that she had done something terrible or wronged someone, but that she wronged herself in an almost invisible way. Always putting others' needs and wants first, she never became who she wanted to be.

Her mother's regret became fuel for her own creative path. Tish thought she too could die without realizing her dream of becoming an artist. In a commitment to honor her mother's life and regret, and to not let a single day go by where she didn't honor her own desire to be an

artist Tish embarked on her first 365 Days of Art project. She committed to make art every day for a year and McAllise Sjoberg never stopped. At publication of this book she celebrates of 20 years of making art daily.

"Artist is a verb. We don't become an artist and then do art, we do art and then begin to feel like an artist."-Tish McAllise Sjoberg

Author: Tish McAllise Sjoberg
Publisher: Art Helps Art Heals Press
Published: 10/04/2023
Pages: 478
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9798989137312

About the Author
McAllise Sjoberg, Tish: - Tish McAllise Sjoberg has been creating art daily for over twenty years. What began as a one-year project of doing art daily to honor her mother's death and her mother's regret that she had not become an artist, ignited a life-long passion of using the arts to live a more inspired life. She began making art daily that first year and has never stopped. Art is woven into the fabric of her day, the fabric of her life. She now calls it her Creative Practice that keeps her balanced in her life. Tish has believed since she was a young child that everyone can create, not just a select few. Through her Expressive Arts Therapy training she began to find her inner artist, and since, has been offering the arts to all who want it for helping and healing. Her own path to creative confidence began by finding the simplest way to jump in and overcome her fears of the blank page. The scribble is a favorite as well as blind contour portraits. Tish hopes to create every day for the rest of her life so she and the world know that she lives the life of an artist, and her life is the evidence. Her Creative Practice is a place where she processes her day, her inner world, the events in the bigger world, and comes home to herself. Her daily art is her spiritual practice. Tish is a painter, writer, scribbler, and photo historian. She also loves improvisation through music, dance, performance, and even singing a few lines when she feels courageous. Tish is a daily artist. Her books are an extension of her desire to create safe spaces for all to express-reaching out to creatives everywhere. Her books were written as part of her Creative Practice-showing up 5 minutes or more a day until they were complete. Tish received her Masters in Expressive Arts Therapy, Coaching and Education from the European Graduate School in Switzerland and the Expressive Arts Institute of San Diego. Her studio, Expressive Arts @ 32nd & Thorn in San Diego, is a vibrant safe place for people to explore creative expression and find their creative confidence. There are offerings in all the art disciplines: visual art, movement, music, writing, and drama.