We were lucky to catch up with Rocio Lopez recently and have shared our conversation below.
Rocio, thank you so much for taking the time to share your lessons learned with us and we’re sure your wisdom will help many. So, one question that comes up often and that we’re hoping you can shed some light on is keeping creativity alive over long stretches – how do you keep your creativity alive?
I keep creativity alive by allowing the world to inspire me. Trying to see the pretty in everything allows ideas to flow. Being in touch with my spirituality and conducting moments silence or meditation outdoors, also assists in removing mental blockages. I also like to witness the creativity of others that serves as a form of inspiration and admiration to create.
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
I’m a 27 year old Latina who grew up in the southern part of Los Angeles. I come from a family who based themselves in creative activities, being musicians, singers, performers, or illustrative art. Naturally, I gave in to a small percentage of all the mentioned. I was in Choir and Dance during my middle school years and practiced digital creativity in high-school. I got my certification for multimedia and put creating art as a primary focus simultaneously perfecting hand made illustrative art as a hobby. I now create Art for digital purposes or for printing formats and make hand made Art consisting of pyrography, acrylic paint and resin, as a final touch.
As a freelance artist I intend to communicate love and magic through my work and serve as a reminder to stay in touch with our inner child. I like to believe that expressing what our inner child identifies with and being intentional with love is the best way of opening paradise and receiving what it has to offer. When you act on your highest excitement it feels like an enlightenment to the highest possibilities of way of living. That is what I love about creating art, it carries the essence of all that is and could be divine and I want others to witness and experience that and more. Through my work I want to serve igniting passion, fire, magic, or some type of inspiration to believing in thyself.
You open yourself to even more love when you do things with love. As to the coming of creation I decided to make “Venus” as my business name and logo to relate to all that is divinity and all that is beauty, muse, and love. The Goddess Venus is a deity that implements creation and love and all that I, myself, can relate to.
Goddess Venus is my muse for my creation of art work but apart from creating from my heart, I also provide custom art work. I bring the ideas of others to life with a hint of magic and love.
Currently I am preparing clothing merchandise for release, to which I’m super excited to have ready, but I don’t have a release date just yet. In the meantime I do release handmade art to have for sale and am open to custom orders for art handmade, digital, or for printing.
I’m undocumented trying to make a living.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
Having immense patience was one of the principal qualities for the work I do. Some of the jobs required more time than others and you can’t rush something you hope to turn out beautiful or nice. Being open to thought (open minded) is also needed. You can’t expect to create something great with ideas to be compacted and molded into a small box, if you want to come up with something amazing you need to open up and set your imagination free, letting it over flow outside of that box. Paying attention to detail was something that took me time to acquire but I feel it’s super important, too. It can be the fine line between something turning out to be okay or surprisingly incredible.
These are some of the things that I had to learn through trial and error and obviously over time.
I think the best way of developing or improving any skills would be by practicing and being consistent. Consistency is key. Also I would say, take risks. How would you know what will work out for you if you don’t give it a try? Take a leap of faith
Is there a particular challenge you are currently facing?
Currently, I’m struggling with with getting exposure of my art work, which hand in hand is taking time to get clients or people to be interested in what I have to offer.
A lot of the times, I get suggested I should sell my work because they think it’s amazing but it’s really difficult to actually have someone say “ Please sell this to me “ or “Could you do this for me?”. I focus more on my hand made art pieces and because there’s a process of time that I need go through to get the piece done, not many are willing to pay for it.
I don’t lose faith that for every business there is someone out there willing to pay for what there is available. So I hope that’s something that works out for me soon, so I can just dedicate to this.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @venusboutiqueee @_l.rr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091637305477
- Twitter: _lrosie
- Other: Tiktok @_l.rr
