Carol Wiebe

This month, I end my journey as a school teacher and embark, with full sails flying, on my full-time artist life. I have dreamed of being a full-time artist since I was old enough to know what that meant, and am finally poised to take the plunge. Throughout my life, I succumbed to the conventional wisdom that you can’t make a living as an artist. What conventional wisdom doesn’t tell you is that you must really watch out for soul death if you don’t let that inner artist out o

By starting to look for a new way of being, you have opened a door. And a window, and quite possibly the whole roof above your head. In fact, forget the nice homey metaphor and just put yourself on the edge of a cliff, or poised between two pieces of jagged rock with a great, deep divide between them. THAT is where you are at ~ the You who wanted to experience real change in your life. The You who wanted to see more, BE more. Arrange those wing feathers, my friend, because yo

While I am working on a digital piece, I often add a layer or two of hand drawing, if the piece calls for it. It changes everything. So, I went from this to this and on to today’s offering: Dreamers The piece reminds me to keep looking towards, and focusing on, my dreams (in every direction). Do you mean your sleeping or waking dreams?, you might ask. Both, really. When the two coalesce, when you are poised on the bridge between the two, and exquisitely aware of both and how