"I knew that I was an artist , that I was destined to fulfill my potential as an artist. And so I gravitated towards The Artist's Way. I'm not really sure how I first discovered it, but it had a huge impact, and it really helped me with the creative blocks that I was experiencing.
As I did the course, as I did the exercises, as I reflected on the contents of the book, I found myself becoming more and more creatively liberated and having more and more energy that I could devote to my creativity. I found myself, for example, waking up in the middle of the night with so much energy, unable to sleep, and I would go, and I would draw at like two in the morning, sometimes for hours and hours in the middle of the night.
I felt on fire with inspiration. It really helped. It really made a huge impact. And I've spoken to a lot of other people who have said that this book has really impacted them and really helped them. " - Jake Kobrin
Find the river and say yes to the flow.
Nurture your inner artist through solitude, self-nurturing, and self-intimacy.
What vision wants to come through you at this time?
What if you could become the most creative version of yourself?
The work of Jake Kobrin is psychedelic, unusual, dark, beautiful, and elegant. His work seeks to illuminate experiences which Jake has had that are outside of the realm of normal waking consciousness, moving into numinous and visionary realms with natural ease. His work explores the interplay of shadow and light, both in the delicate modelling of the forms of his pictures but also in the character of the subjects he portrays, his work showing a willingness to embrace all aspects of emotion from revelation and peace, to fear and disharmony. He considers himself an "interdimensional midwife and conduit" believing that the role of the artist is to be able to move outside of themselves and to act as a conduit for higher consciousness to move through them. In this way he says, "I do not claim authorship for any of the works of art I have painted. I am a channel for Great Spirit to create through me." He currently lives in Ubud, Bali and he grew up in San Francisco. He is one of the few psychedelic artists with a formal classical art education, having studied classical realist drawing and painting in Florence, Italy at the Angel Academy of Art. He is also a tattoo artist, and is inspired by the traditional ceremonial contexts that ancient cultures held around tattooing. He is honoured to bring people through the ancient rite of passage of being tattooed in a way that is intentional and reverent. Besides painting and tattooing, Jake is also the founder and designer of a jewellery and fashion brand called Medicine Dragon Designs, and is a DJ and musician, as well as a tattoo artist, published writer, speaker, and podcaster.
"Chet's art is beautiful & scary. His style has a modern twist crashing into a classical approach. I think Chet is a master painter on his way to making a great mark in our little world. Wanna do something smart with your money? Invest in a Chet Zar painting." - Adam Jones (TOOL)
Chet Zar is a world-renowned artist who works in a variety of different mediums. His interest in art and horror movies led to a career in the motion-picture industry. His contributions to the industry were in the form of sculpture and make-up effects. Zar designed and created prosthetic effects for such movies as The Ring, Planet of the Apes, and Darkman. His canvassed works are generally oil-based portraits. He considers his works to be extensions of his doodles, and describes the figures in his art as "very ugly and freakish on the surface" while still retaining "innocence about them". In addition to creating digital animations for Tool's live shows, Zar has created his own DVD of digital loops, entitled Disturb the Normal. His 'animated paintings' are made using Lightwave 3d and Adobe After Effects. On December 18, 2007, Tool released a DVD for their single "Vicarious", which contains a documentary with an appearance by Zar as a key member of the "Vicarious" video team. On 2010, he made the album cover artwork for Charred Walls of the Damned's self-titled album. In 2015 a documentary directed by Mike Correll examines the life and career of Chet Zar titled I Like to Paint Monsters.
The work of internationally renowned artist A. Andrew Gonzalez can be found in museums, galleries and collections. He's known for the unique sculptural look of his paintings, as well as their power to move and inspire the viewer. The art of painting is usually an additive process, in which layer after layer builds an image. Gonzalez turns this on its head using a subtractive process developed through years of trial and error. His technique involves a gesso-like surface, transparent paints and, most surprisingly, an array of erasers. The artist describes his style as "a revival of the Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic" and "mystical love poems to the soul". His focus is on the figure as both temple and vessel, sublimed by transformative forces. He captures his subjects suspended in an ecstatic moment; poised on the threshold of a new birth.
Emily is a Boulder, Colorado based artist whose artistic focus is on portraiture and paintings that have an emotional and empowering element to them. Her artwork takes root in ideals of divine feminine, in the transmutative power of shadow work, and in the realms of mysticism and the subconscious. In her artwork and in life, she celebrates the spiritual journey of the human family, the sacred Mysteries, and the country of dreams. Through her artwork and poetry, Emily endeavors to peel back the veil a little bit further and to bring otherworldly beings and archetypal entities through and onto canvas. For the past decade, Emily has been painting women whom she has a personal connection to, in the hopes to reflect what she knows of their being through the lens of archetype. Emily shares much of her own personal experience of the human journey by way of her poetry, which is written throughout her paintings in a language of her creation. It is her hope that these pieces serve as windows into other worldly and subconscious realms, and as talismans of healing and reflection for the viewer.
Mark Heylmun is the lead guitarist for the California-based deathcore band Suicide Silence. The band won a Revolver Golden God award for Best New Talent in 2009. Mark also loves teaching music to his students online and through Patreon. Mark has been featured in GuitarWorld and many other prominent magazines and publications.
More about Mark can be found at: https://linktr.ee/markheylmun and https://g.co/kgs/Cqkdtv
A renowned guitarist, songwriter, composer and international touring artist, Paul Masvidal is best known as co-founder and frontman of Cynic. Masvidal has also released music with groups Death, Aeon Spoke, Onward with Love, and most recently a series of conceptual solo albums, titled 'Mythical Human Vessel' where he experimented with brain entrainment as a therapeutic modality. Masvidal has also written and performed music for television and motion pictures through Still Motion Music, the Hollywood-based composer collective he co-founded. Composing the main title for the Emmy nominated NBC teen series Operation Junkyard and has scored series for H2, National Geographic, Bravo, ABC and PBS, Paul also worked as a session guitarist for Carsey Werner sitcoms That '70s Show and 3rd Rock from the Sun, and produced/played guitar on actor Jim Carrey's spiritually reflective children's book and accompanying soundtrack, How Roland Rolls. Masvidal lent his name to a line of signature instruments aptly named, Masvidalien Cosmo produced by Sweden's award-winning Strandberg Guitars. Masvidal has most recently entered into the creation of physical objects, developing Orgonite related devices and sacred geometric amulets. His interest in Cosmology, Consciousness, Extra-terrestrials, UFOs, crop circles and their connection to his spiritual interests have become integral to his work as an artist.
Caren Chroma is an artist who uses her paintings as Expressions, Reflections & Extensions of her creative life. Her muses stem from a fascination with Nature, capturing fragments of Transcendental States, honoring the Divine Feminine, and celebrating Source energy, which interweaves the entire life web.
Her scintillating work is described as Flowedelic, as she creates from an intuitive, flow-state & aims to embellish her chosen subjects with curvaceous line work, high chroma hues, & streaming dots.
Caren also exercises body & face paint on herself as the subject, and offers adornments at creative gatherings, events & one-on-one sessions. After discovering the
Em-Powerful healing properties of sharing body paint with others, this art form has become a primary interest & focus on her artist path. Body paint can serve as a major tool for Self-Reflection,
Human Connection,
& Healing Transformation into LIVING ART.
Luke Brown was born with a paintbrush in one hand and a portal to the parallel in the other. If you have been to psychedelic culture gatherings around the world, you probably came across him live painting and displaying his artworks. His creative expression taps into something bigger than ourselves, activating the mind and stimulating the creative spirit within us. Born in Ontario Canada into a creative and supportive family, Luke received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Ontario College of Art and Design in 1998, and today is one of the world’s most well-known and sought out Visionary Artists. Visionary Art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness, including spiritual or mystical themes, or is directly based upon such experiences. Luke intends to take the viewer through an alternative dimension; a transpersonal domain beyond time and space, contributing to the expansion of collective consciousness. The embodiment of mystical experience by means of the colourful symmetries in his work are timeless and magical. His paintings are direct translations of personal experiences of heightened inner-vision. Each of Luke’s paintings require hundreds of hours of work, taking anywhere from six months to two years to complete.
Erica Robins is a fine oil painter born and raised in Southern California. She has practiced her craft ever since she could pick up a pencil. She studied under the master artist Michael Ward. From there, she went on to attend California State University Northridge where she majored in the Fine Arts. Transferring from CSUN to Art Institute of California Los Angeles, she graduated with a B.S. degree in Graphic Design.
After going through years of personal turmoil growing up, Erica now achieves her dreams of being a prolific oil painter. She uses her art as a personal form of therapy to heal others as well as herself. She comes from a family of turmoil, addiction and depression. She has lost 3 people who were extremely close to her to suicide. Erica believes one of the reasons why so many people are unhappy today is because we have lost our connection to ourselves, to nature and to one another. She intends for her art to serve as a bridge into consciousness that we are all one and connected. She strives with every finished work to invoke feelings of empowerment within oneself and the divine connection that unifies us all. Her paintings have appeared in a number of showings, exhibits, galleries, and private collections throughout the world.
Chris Dyer is a Peruvian artist, living in Canada, and traveling the world half of his time. He experiences different cultures and then re-expresses them into his own oneness visions. He serves as a Bridge builder between different art movements from skateboard graphics, visionary paintings, street art murals and more. He wants to break boxes and see everything as one optimistic reality. Though his subject matters are as varied as his styles, his art is just a reflection of his personal spiritual journey. For more, look out for his coffee table book, his documentary or look him up at www.positivecreations.ca .
Izzy Ivy is an international visionary art painter, healer and teacher specialising in facilitating expanding the horizons of the human experience through art. The easel is her alter and she is passionate about making images that actively raise the vibration of the environment and observer. Through intention and devotion to spirit, she is dedicated to opening doorways to the greater reality, give voice to the unseen, grounding and activating the collective dreaming. Deep symbolism is adorned with colour, beauty and accessibility, she speaks to the heart, evoking a stiring in the soul, an awakening beyond the illusion, an unfurling to the remembering.
Adam Paquette is an Australian Illustrator, Writer, Painter, and Digital Nomad currently based in Berlin, best known for his illustration work for Magic the Gathering.
Adam says:
"I have dedicated this life to artmaking and observing the world with curiosity and (hopefully) compassion. Its always hard to write a fresh and honest bio, so if you are curious or have any questions, just get in touch with me!"
http://www.adampaquettemtg.com/
https://linktr.ee/adampaquette
Stephanie Rose Freeman is an Australian visionary artist creating soulful oil paintings depicting erotic spirituality and radiant, empowered human beings. Based in Melbourne in her bus-home, Stephanie is exploring themes around empowered sexuality through her luscious erotic oil paintings and commissioned vulva portraits. Her paintings feature radiant humans basking in their sexual essence with flowers bursting out of them, often incorporating sacred geometry or energetic circuitry to hint at the energetic side of sexuality. She also paints erotic commissions, teaches painting workshops and offers The Yoni Painting Ritual – a transformational one-on-one painting ritual of body love and self-acceptance. Her work transmits the shameless beauty and sacredness of the sensual experience, with the intention of inspiring the viewer to remember their sexual divinity.
About her work Stephanie says, "My mission is to uplift anyone who comes into contact with my art - to make them think, to provoke a transformation within them. I want to provide transmissions to hundreds of thousands of people within my lifetime. Through my art. To help people heal their relationship to themselves, their sexuality, their life force, their bodies... to inspire self love and acknowledgement of our divinity."
Art for me began in 2003. I was at the start of my final year in Art School when I found myself using the creative process with painting/drawing as a way to begin to discover who I am. I was in a state of misery almost daily. It was confusing because I was aware how everything in my life should have made me feeling the opposite. This internal conflict had grown to a point taking priority over everything else, and it was here when a professor in the program showed the possibility where art making could be so much more than painting and drawing for its own sake. It could very intentionally be inclusive of one’s inner life, working as a medium using ideas not limited to solving problems of composition and techniques with how to paint. “Paint what is important..’, Christopher this teacher would say. But what is important? For me the answer came evident— to overcome the despair that haunted me at the time. Christopher functioned like a therapist during our teacher/student sessions, and on one occasion introduced a model specifying how I might begin to use the techniques learned in the Fine Art program thus far, towards the purpose with beginning to know myself. He called it ‘Self, Culture, Nature.’ I can’t imagine him knowing how much to heart I would run with the idea. So much so was the case where from that day forward and over the course of the 15+ years to follow nearly every piece of artwork I created used it. And I’m proud to say that I not only overcame that initial state of inner conflict, but continue to experience progress in the deepest way from having assigned art the role I have, where it continues to be the conduit for experiences including growth, transformation, healing and more.
Marya Stark is an award-winning vocalist, composer, producer, performer, and multi-instrumentalist. She is a storyteller, bard, muse and poet, her music being described as “Freddie Mercury Doing The Nutcracker.”
She has produced and released numerous projects, ranging from voice-focused womb healing anthems, children’s albums, to experimental witch-folk, electronic, and orchestral folk-pop productions. She has traveled around the world sharing her evocative narrative music with audiences, weaving soundscapes of imaginal wonder, inter-generational healing, and introspective paradox with theatrical flare.
When not on stage or in the studio developing her song-craft, Marya offers her knowledge as a creativity and empowerment guide, supporting the Archetypal Embodiment Journey of her students. Founder of the Rose Bard Academy, she is a mentor in the art of voice and songwriting, working with those passionate about refining their personal sound, developing their unique genius, and bringing their creative visions to life.
Marya is steeped in the alchemical arts of music therapy, energetic psychology and womb healing, and currently leads expressive arts enrichment immersions globally and online. She is a chaser of waterfalls, a lover of wonder, and receiver of songs between the worlds.
I, Jake Kobrin, am excited to come on this life-changing journey with you.
Any additional questions about this course can be sent via email to info@jakekobrin.com .
Jake and his team would be happy to answer them for you.