I just spent the last hour leading a Virtual Playday for my Creative Sandbox Community. First, I gessoed a couple of clipboards (which I use for games during my Creative Sandbox Retreats), and then in the last 15 minutes I made this doodle.
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Aaahhhh… such a gift to give ourselves creative sandbox playtime! And such an *essential* gift, because play not only boosts your mood, it also boosts willpower, which means it gives you more PATIENCE and FOCUS, so you’re better able to get all that “worky-work” done, without succumbing to distractions! 🖍
Creative play is not frivolous, it’s necessary. Don’t ever forget it! How are you going to feed yourself with some creative play today?
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Day 5: “fee”
Playing with different ways of drawing this concept. Still clumsy at hands, but working on it! .
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Abstract morning doodle. I’ve been having a string of insomniac nights. Last night I did not sleep much, and I feel pretty cruddy today. While creating this piece, I forgot how cruddy I felt. 😊
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Maybe I’ll get to take a nap later…
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More hands. Starting from the Day 2 prompt of “strength” from this month’s creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community. Fists I’m starting to feel fairly comfortable with (just don’t look at the two in the upper left, okay?) but hands holding pens in writing positions? Gaahhh! It’s as if my eye cannot see those shapes! As if there’s nothing to hold onto. 🖍
I have not given up. I will try again tomorrow or the next day. I simply haven’t figured out the “formula” yet. Eventually I will get it, I’m sure, if I persist. 😊
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Morning doodle.
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Knot doodle critters. Playing in the creative sandbox. .
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More hand practice. My god, some of these look like they were cut off of aliens! But that’s how it goes when you practice. That’s WHY you practice: to get better! 😊 Onward, ho!
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Practicing drawing pointing hands. @evalottchen says if you want to learn to draw something, draw it 50 times. I’ve filled this page and am pretty close to 50. Now I feel like I can draw “pointing hand” without thinking about it. 😊 .
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2 ⅓ hours of Creative Sandbox Playday let me finish this spread from my travel journal. Something I would NEVER get to at home on my own! A total joy allow myself to immerse myself in something so time-consuming and “purposeless.” 🖍
Of course, the point is that it’s far from purposeless. The purpose is that giving time to creative pursuits like this makes us HAPPY, boosts our ENERGY, lowers blood pressure, boosts immune system, and overall increases our WELLNESS! That is a powerful purpose. 😊
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The next Creative Sandbox Playday is December 30. Link in profile. #.
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More hand practice, from this morning’s sketchbook. 🖍
Tomorrow I get to make art ALL DAY! Squee! It’s Creative Sandbox Playday! I’m so excited! 10am-2:30pm in Palo Alto, at Etz Chayim Congregation. I’m not sure what I’m going to work on—probably more pages in my travel journal from our trip to Paris and Basel this past August, though it would also be fun to practice drawing, or do mixed media.
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Link in profile to join me at the next Playday, or come to my 5-day Creative Sandbox Retreat—the Winter Retreat is coming up fast—January 30-February 3! You’ll find all the links in my profile. .
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Thank you to @ericavmarx for inviting me to participate in her live coaching + art experiment this week! What an honor. This is what I ended up creating during the 45 minute live coaching session, as the live-streamed artist.
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I did NOT intend it to turn into a graphic recording session, truly I didn’t! I had planned to DOODLE! As in abstract art. But I picked up a Neuland marker… and, well, I wrote some words, and it ended up becoming much more graphic recording than abstract art. The client still found it useful—it’s not that it was bad at all, or that graphic recording was “worse” and abstract art would have been “better”… It was just *different* from what any of us expected going in!
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Life is like that. It flummoxes our expectations. We roll with it… or not! 😊
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The whole experience was profound. I’m looking forward to doing it again in December! Though I plan to stick with different tools next time, to force myself to stay abstract, purely to see what that’s like. 😊
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Practicing hands in fists this morning. Starting with an attempt at drawing my own fist, pseudo-naturalistically, then “iconifying” it. Work in progress.
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I hope you make time for some creative play today.
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