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• Weekly curated sparks from the art world.
• Quotes, books, and films worth your time.
• Thoughts & practices to nudge your studio work.
• Written like a friend, not a professor.

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Art and Creativity Blog for Artists and Art Lovers

A warm, thoughtful art blog and newsletter. Sofi on Art shares creativity guides, artist interviews, books, and inspiration for artists who want more than social media snippets. It features creativity guides and inspiration for artists; artist interviews; books, quotes, and films for creative minds; and a personal, inspiring newsletter with weekly sparks from the art world.

ARTIST INTERVIEWS

Artist Interviews and Studio Stories: 
Conversations with practicing artists about routines, process, and what truly inspires them.

Nadia Valavani artist

Artist Interview – Nadia Valavani

Nadia Valavani, the Greek artist behind Old Brown Shoe Stories, creates vibrant, self-sarcastic illustrations that turn everyday life into visual storytelling. Her characters, drawn with humor and...
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Artist Interview – Jaime Danielle Smith

Artist Interview – Jaime Danielle Smith

Jaime Danielle Smith is a Zimbabwean-born abstract expressionist artist now living in Stuttgart, Germany. Due to political disturbances in Zimbabwe, she immigrated to South Africa where she completed...
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Artist Interview – Steven Seinberg

Artist Interview – Steven Seinberg

Steven Seinberg is a Brooklyn-born painter whose lyrical, gestural abstractions span nearly three decades of exploration into nature, perception, and the poetics of mark-making. With an BFA from...
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GUIDES & INSPIRATION

Creativity Guides and Inspiration for Artists
Practical guides, prompts, and hacks to spark your studio work — from famous artists’ creative routines to overcoming creative block.

creative morning routine

Creative Morning Routines: How Picasso, Warhol, van Gogh and Le Corbusier Started Their Days

Some artists rise with the sun and walk through silence, like Georgia O’Keeffe. Others, like Picasso and Zaha Hadid, barely glance at the morning, building masterpieces late into the night. From...
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creative block exercises for artists

Creative Block Exercises to Break Through and Spark New Ideas

Everyone gets stuck. It doesn’t mean you’re not creative. It doesn’t mean you’re out of ideas.It means you’re alive — and it means it’s time to move. Creativity isn’t magic. It’s a combination of...
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Forest landscape painting artists

9 Greatest Forest Painters of All Time

Here’s a post about most beautiful and original forest painters through time: Caspar David Friedrich, Emily Carr, Gustav Klimt, Albert Bierstadt, Ramon Piaguaje, Tom Thomson, Henri Rousseau...
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS & FILMS & QUOTES

Books, Quotes, and Films for Creative Minds
Curated art-world gems: reading lists, creativity quotes, and films that keep your practice alive.

WEEKLY ART NEWSLETTER

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ABOUT SOFI ON ART

Written by art lover Helen, Sofi on Art is a personal art and creativity project: part blog, part newsletter, always thoughtful. I browse the stacks — magazines, books, films — and bring you only the gems. So you could create more.