30dac Magazine Issue 01 September 2014 | Page 229

life in California. The 30 Day Artist Challenge was the best thing I could have done for my well-being. To finish 1 project a day was very gratifying and to spend time just for me was healing for my mind and my heart like a meditation.

The challenge is not a competition with others, it was an opportunity to challenge myself. I found a lot of support and encouragement and discovered a family of artists I could relate to. Whether it be photography, poetry, graffiti, prose, painting, drawing or projects like sewing, we all had something that blossomed out of us that we wanted to share. I thought once I released those pictures in my mind that my creative well would run dry, but it was just the opposite. I have since joined 5 challenges and the art and ideas just keep coming. I loved creating galleries of my photographs and art and display them for sale on Fine Art America and have a Facebook Fan Page. I highly recommend joining in this creative forum. I dared to call myself an artist and now I definitely know I am one.

Deborah Moen

deborah-moen.artistwebsites.com

facebook.com/DeborahMoenRuralPhotography

Deborah Moen

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