This past weekend my studio was filled with nine enthusiastic and industrious artists learning about the cold wax/oil process. The air was filled with excitement. The artists ranged from those with almost no experience at all to professionals, so I had a lot of explaining to do! One of my goals was to encourage the artists to play, to experiment with a new technique and just let go. So often we get hung up on goals, on making a product, on being 'perfect'. I read to them from Eric Maisel's book, " Coaching the Artist Within " , where he talks about the creative process. "To create, we have to take the bad with the good. We're bound to write bad paragraphs along with good ones. That's the eternal law. We can get rid of those bad paragraphs later on , but first we must write them. Otherwise we won't write anything at all . If we try to write only the good paragraphs, we are three-quarters of the way toward paralysis. The name that ...