Comments on: To Be or Not to Be an Artist. A Letter To My 17 Year-Old Self https://kpalana.com/2015/02/artist-letter-17-year-old-self/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=artist-letter-17-year-old-self Art, Design & Education for Unapologetic Idealists Sat, 10 Dec 2022 14:38:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: kpalana https://kpalana.com/2015/02/artist-letter-17-year-old-self/#comment-31837 Fri, 15 May 2015 10:52:04 +0000 https://kpalana.com/?p=1185#comment-31837 Thanks so much for your comments Ankita. I’ll soon be offering more resources for new and not so new artists to help them succeed in this challenging but rewarding field.

]]> By: Ankita Singhania https://kpalana.com/2015/02/artist-letter-17-year-old-self/#comment-25629 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:43:23 +0000 https://kpalana.com/?p=1185#comment-25629 hii i am Ankita singhnia from India..
Thanks a tonn for sharing such a beautiful blog..
it was truley very inspiring, interesting & from the heart.. and the title very much aaplicable to me 😉
I really too feel that art is an ongoin process.. has no boundaries , no limits & thats the beauty of it. You will always be an student here!!
I have shared your article on my facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/ankitapaintings
and on my website and would love to read more from you..

]]> By: kpalana https://kpalana.com/2015/02/artist-letter-17-year-old-self/#comment-25224 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:34:52 +0000 https://kpalana.com/?p=1185#comment-25224 In reply to Ray Whitaker.

Dear Ray,

Thank you so much for your kind assessment of my post. In fact, it was just a post I made for a website called Admitopia where they asked me to advise teens who were considering going into the arts. I’ve already written to myself as a future Grandma not long ago. In this latest instance, I decided to write to my younger self as I thought it would be more sincere than trying to dish out advice to others.

I’m taken aback (in a good way) by the positive feedback (mostly on social media) I’ve gotten in response to this post. Maybe I should try to write on my blog more often. 🙂

Wishing you the best,
Kristen

]]> By: Ray Whitaker https://kpalana.com/2015/02/artist-letter-17-year-old-self/#comment-24590 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 20:27:52 +0000 https://kpalana.com/?p=1185#comment-24590 Dear Kristen-

I read and re-read your essay to your younger self… Found it interesting and vivid, touching and focused. Bravo! In the candor, the honesty, and the hindsight!

A friend recommended I read your essay and she was firm about my getting to it… I’m glad she did, my friend is a vividly interesting woman who is -among other avocations- a real artist.

I wonder if this was some sort of exercise for you, like a PhD assignment or something. Years ago I was a logistics supervisor for an adult educational course on Creativity, where a similar exercise was required. We had over 100 seminarians, ad I do not believe that any of them did as nice a job on it as you did.

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