ArtBizCoach.com is for artists who are going places and taking their art with them! Alyson Stanfield helps artists find their marketing potential and offers free newsletters and articles on how to take your art to the next step and get out of the studio.

The basic idea: to record nonstop everything around you with pencil and watercolors. A drawn journal filled with details ranging from the all your daily activities.

This site is for all with a deep passion for writing. Whether you are an aspiring writer, seasoned pro, or just looking for valuable content to add to your personal journaling - this site will offer you something.

This is an awesome e-book by Virginia Spiegel.

An online book -
inspiring, motivating, beautiful, unique.

Twenty thoughtful essays
over 80 photographs,
more than 30 haiku's,
book recommendations,
and a behind-the-scene look
at the making of art.

All monies made from this e-book is donated to Fiberart For A Cause-the American Cancer Society

Informative articles on creativity assembled by Kate Porterfield.

Divided into sections covering personal creativity, creativity in the workplace and creativity tools, this site contains good articles on a variety of subjects.

The Creativity Portal helps you to explore various activities related to arts, crafts, music and writing. Their directory is full of sites that have free tips, tutorials, articles, projects, and how-to's to help you learn about the topic that interests you the most. General creativity sites are listed as well as those dealing with drawing, graphic design, painting, music and all types of writing. The crafts section runs the gamut from balloon art, basketry and beading to origami, scrap booking tie dye, and woodworking.

If you're looking for a quotation about creativity or visual art, this is the site to visit and bookmark for future reference. Robert Genn, artist and author of the book The Painter's Keys, has assembled thousands of quotes that are organized into over 300 categories that run the gamut from Ability to Writing – with Criticisism, Color, Music, Passion, Sadness, Serendipity and more in between.

This site explores how creativity and technology are changing our world. "At Creativity Cafe, we live for the artist in everyone and believe creative people have the solutions to the ills of humanity…and that everyone is creative. We offer and encourage you to use this space to make your voice heard. You are a unique individual who carries a piece of the puzzle, for creating a future world that is abundant, loving and peaceful for every person on this planet."

Each month Denver area novelist, Robin Owens, posts an inspiring quote about creativity and posts an exercise to free your artist. These are archived as well.

This site encourages visitors to live full and creative lives. Shai Coggins, the site owner has gathered articles about art, creativity and writing.

Artella was recently named to Writer's Digests 101 Best Sites for Writers and is filled with free offerings and resources for creative people, including popular teleworkshops and e-courses, a monthly magazine that fosters collaborations among writers and artists, an innovative creative marketplace called The Shoppes of Artella, several lively online discussion groups, a creative bartering forum, and much more.

Visual Artist, Amy Stacy Curtis had come up with instructions for creative people who want to start a local group where creative people can talk about their triumphs and challenges as well as putting their heads together to solve problems. Materials include how to start a group, how to maintain it and a suggested meeting format.

This site was born after the success of Alex Beauchamp's Girl at Play Blog which began in 2001 to detail her journey of leaving a successful corporate position to become a full-time artist. She knew she wasn't the first - or the last - to do this and so she created this site to showcase other creative female entrepreneurs.

Everyone featured here are all successfully self-employed with their business based on their artistic talents.

Artist, Cathy Kano Murillo's site is filled with wit and kitchsy projects to try that range from white sugar skulls for Dia de los Muertos to altered baby books.