Megan Eckmen: Rekindle your wonder

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changing mindsChanging Minds Ecourse registration is now open. You feel it inside that you can do more, that you have great ideas and wonderful talents to share, but always fall short. Your message isn’t getting across the way that you intended. The amount of creative work and ideas that I produced greatly changed after I gained an understanding of my creative process, the same can happen for you.

smallI’m Megan, the artist behind Studio MME.  I believe that the world is full of wonder and if you look for it, you can find joy and magic everywhere!  I also believe that YOU feel that same wonder, though it may just be a small ember.  I believe my work can rekindle your wonder and make your world more magical.

Studio MME started because of a promise to my parents.  I would get my degrees in art and creative writing AND I would start my own business.  Partly I wanted to prove that I could be in that 10% of graduates who make a living from their artwork.  But even more so, I was on a mission to help people like you take back their imagination.  You  need magic in your life to be happy, healthy, and enthusiastic about the world around you and my pen and ink illustrations can provide that magic!

'The weaver bird is a master of nidulation.' - Abandoned Words Series - dictionary pages, acrylic, pen and ink

‘The weaver bird is a master of nidulation.’ – Abandoned Words Series – dictionary pages, acrylic, pen and ink

I get the best creative ideas when I’m….

Out for a walk.  Whether it’s in the wilderness on a backpacking trip or just a jaunt round the block, I always get my most creative ideas when I’m out moving.

 My favorite space to create looks like….

A white-walled studio with dark wooden floors.  The walls are covered with brightly colored Chinese lanterns, windsocks, art prints, and pennants.  The windows are enormous and there’s a big drafting table set up just for me.

 My top 3 sources of creativity are…

Old atlases
Antique fairy tale books
The woods
The Love Whale

The Love Whale

 When I need a new idea I…..

Generally stop trying to think of one.  The harder I try to force a new idea, the worse it comes.  Instead, I bake cookies or go for a walk.  Anything to stop thinking about how I need to be thinking about a new idea.  Then it just pops into my head fully-formed.

I know that a piece is finished when…

I’ve slept through the night and wake up in the morning and feel that it’s done.  I always let a day go by before I clean my pens and proclaim something finished.

 When something isn’t working the way that I planned it to I…

Acknowledge that I’m in the nasty, battle part of creation and rally my mental troops to keep on plodding forward.  I always end up winning.

 I create because…

I don’t know what else to do with myself.  I’ve tried the retail world and I’ve tried the non-profit.  I simply cannot work for anyone but myself and if I don’t draw every single day, I become a very cranky person.

"Baba Yaga"

“Baba Yaga”

My work is about…

Fantasy and wonder.  I’m always asking myself, ‘What if?’ and that’s what I strive to make my viewers do as well.  With every piece I create, I’m on a mission to help people rekindle their wonder.
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