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t_juniper's review against another edition
2.0
I think I have to stop read art books by ladies from New Mexico (an oddly specific genre I've seemed to have hit on this year). I kept having the same feeling reading this as I did reading 'the artists way' earlier this year.
Sooo many chapters of both start with versions of 'As I sit in my perfectly sunlit Taos studio, pondering my latest zen retreat (or month in Europe, or pilgrimage to Matisse's studio), I consider what it means to be an artist.'
I'm sure it's meant to be inspiring, but I find it utterly unrelatable to my everyday life as a budding artist in the midst of a life full of other - non-art based - realities.
Sooo many chapters of both start with versions of 'As I sit in my perfectly sunlit Taos studio, pondering my latest zen retreat (or month in Europe, or pilgrimage to Matisse's studio), I consider what it means to be an artist.'
I'm sure it's meant to be inspiring, but I find it utterly unrelatable to my everyday life as a budding artist in the midst of a life full of other - non-art based - realities.
robyn_m's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Accessible and playful. Includes thirteen memoir chapters, twenty-two assignments for the reader, and a gallery of the author's paintings.
page 66: painting as sustenance and enrichment to the writing life:
"When I left painting, I didn't realize that I gave up a deep source of my writing, that place in me where I can let my work flow. When I cut out painting, I cut off that underground stream of mayhem, joy, nonsense, absurdity. [...] because I never took painting seriously."
page 75: snowball effect, urgency of color:
"I wanted the red, although I knew it distracted me from the simple perfection of gray and blue, but when I painted the red, then I wanted to add a dash of orange, and then, oh lord, how could I forget lime green. Pretty soon I missed pink, and then I'd feel an urgency to brush a patina of turquoise in the background."
page 77: white as emptiness
page 66: painting as sustenance and enrichment to the writing life:
"When I left painting, I didn't realize that I gave up a deep source of my writing, that place in me where I can let my work flow. When I cut out painting, I cut off that underground stream of mayhem, joy, nonsense, absurdity. [...] because I never took painting seriously."
page 75: snowball effect, urgency of color:
"I wanted the red, although I knew it distracted me from the simple perfection of gray and blue, but when I painted the red, then I wanted to add a dash of orange, and then, oh lord, how could I forget lime green. Pretty soon I missed pink, and then I'd feel an urgency to brush a patina of turquoise in the background."
page 77: white as emptiness
kellyd's review
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
5.0
I'm not a painter, and I still loved this book. Slowly making my way through Natalie Goldberg's work and falling more in love with her with each one.
debnanceatreaderbuzz's review
4.0
Goldberg was my first introduction into the simplicity of writing every day. Now she is my first intro into painting every day.
She takes away our fear and fills us with courage and inspiration.
Let’s go. Let’s go paint.
She takes away our fear and fills us with courage and inspiration.
Let’s go. Let’s go paint.
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