Morning doodle. Another stone doodle inspired by @agneeesskipper’s paintings, which in turn were inspired by photos of rocks.
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This is the true nature of creativity: we are not islands, we are all interconnected. (And aren’t islands connected to each other under water, anyway? 😉) Each of us sends ripples outwards, rarely knowing exactly how far and wide those ripples reach. The one thing that’s certain is that everything you do touches people. And more people than you can ever know.
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Snapshot from My Studio: September 07, 2018 at 08:59AM
Adding some color to one of my #sketchnotes from the #parisain2018 conference. It was just a couple of weeks ago now, and already it feels so long ago! I can’t wait til next year’s AIN… in NEW YORK!
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Snapshot from My Studio: September 05, 2018 at 07:19PM
Of all the artists we saw on our trip to Paris & Basel, the one who touched and inspired me the most was not hanging in the Louvre, the Musée Orsay, or the Pompidou Centre, but @agneeesskipper. I fell in LOVE with her paintings, and because I got to meet her, and spend a couple of hours with her and her partner, Joachim, at their beautiful Spektakel Atelier Numas Igra in Basel, I fell in love with HER, too—her energy, her being, everything! 🖍
This doodle is directly inspired by a series of paintings Agnes created inspired by photographs of rocks. The photos and paintings were displayed side by side in an exhibition in June, which I wish I could have seen! You can see a few pics, and a video tour through the gallery, on @agneeesskipper’s Instagram feed.
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Our time with Agnes & Joachim made me long to paint on big canvases! To have a gallery and host wild events like they do! Yet Agnes was intrigued by the things I do that she doesn’t. 🖍
It was a good reminder that each of us has gifts and strengths, and we get to revel in each other’s gifts while embracing our own. It’s not a competition, it’s a party. 😊
You get to be you, I get to be me, and we get to revel in each other. ❤️
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From the Archive: The Dance of “Want To” and “Have To”

So a few weeks back, maybe a month ago now, I started practicing graphic recording tools and techniques in order to bone up for bringing graphic facilitation to my corporate and organizational workshops.
And because my practice is to share what I’m creating, I posted my efforts on Instagram, which feeds out to Facebook.
I even made a special Pinterest board, just for my Visual Practice stuff.
Now, my gremlins are pretty loud and nasty, so they didn’t hold back telling me all the ways that my “flip chart sketch notes” fell short of what I wanted them to be.
And because I’ve been following all sorts of masters of the field of graphic recording and graphic facilitation, my standards are pretty high, I admit.
So it came as a huge surprise when [Read more…]
From the Archive: The Frustration of the Flail

At the end of 2015 I faced a moment of truth.
I realized I was not getting to my art table to make art.
Weeks had gone by, and I had not managed to squeeze in even a few minutes, despite the fact that my art table is literally right behind my computer desk. So all I have to do is turn around and take two steps to the left to be standing at it.
The gravitational pull of my computer is so strong, it was keeping me from doing even that much.
Clearly, something had to change.
What to do?
One thing I know is: the [Read more…]



