Attaining Creativity is a daily process, filled with successes (both minor and major), trepidations, and mistakes (never failures, since everything is a learning lesson). As I travel through this process, on this blog you’ll read about:

• Attaining Creativity through art: What inspires my artwork? How do I go about choosing products? How is my artwork maturing, or standing still? Do deadlines and being a creative free spirit really work well together – or is it a disaster waiting to happen?
• Attaining Creativity through entrepreneurship: How does an artist learn, and become comfortable, with the business side of art? What resources are out there, both in the real world and in cyberspace, that help artists become comfortable with selling, marketing, and promoting?
• Attaining Creativity through inspirations and trials: Waking up and being artistic every day is one thing. Trying to wake up with enthusiasm after not selling any artwork for a couple of weeks is another. How do you keep going forward, keep pursuing your dream, if your everyday life feels like a see saw of emotions and realities?

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  Finished art pieces and event notices are posted on the Attaining Creativity Facebook Fan page, along with spur of the moment comments about what inspires me to draw.

About the Artist: Pia f. Walker

My daily life is filled with traditions from rural Italy, cultural tendencies gained from the big-city atmosphere of Buenos Aires, and the daring entrepreneurship attitude of California (northern, not southern Cali). This hopscoth quilt of attitudes, traditions, and inspirations makes for a unique life. Yet finding my own footing, and figuring out how to incorporate all these ingredients in my daily life recipe is something I search for on an almost daily basis.

My art is an outlet for that search, and my cat is usually my constant companion as I put on my earphones, listen to Vangelis, Yo-Yo Ma, and Kelly Clarkson, and dab (or throw) paint onto canvases and swish them around. Quieter drawing sessions occur as I work with pastels and finish up the art pieces.

My surroundings include the redwood forests north of Santa Cruz, California, cafes in North Beach, San Francisco (an easy walk towards Chinatown for the Chinese New Year parade, a yearly must see!), and the north end of Long Beach Island, New Jersey, where sunsets are filled with the heaviness of humidity and sea grass is filled with hundreds of crickets, humming, humming, humming.

For more information:

• Stop by the Attaining Creativity Gallery online
  Background stories and finished art pieces are collected here.
• Visit the artist
  Check out my calendar for weekly outings and art show events.
• Contact me
  Questions? Critiques? Have information to share? E-mail me at: piaATattainingcreativityDOTcom