Morning doodle. Creative play makes the rest of the day go better, which is why my favorite time to do it is the morning. 😊
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Snapshot from My Studio: December 07, 2018 at 07:27AM
I’ve been reading The Coaching Habit, by Michael Bungay Stanier of boxofcrayons.biz (highly recommended!), and throughout the book there are links to a page with these helpful videos that illustrate the concepts in a little more depth, or just from a slightly different perspective. This morning I did a little sketchnote of one of the videos, a short webinar called “How to Help Your Team Find Focus.” It was fun to flex those sketchnoting muscles again! Thanks, Michael, for a little bite-sized opportunity. 😊
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Snapshot from My Studio: December 06, 2018 at 02:12PM
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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Snapshot from My Studio: December 05, 2018 at 10:25AM
Day 5: “fee”
Playing with different ways of drawing this concept. Still clumsy at hands, but working on it! .
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Snapshot from My Studio: December 04, 2018 at 08:41AM
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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Snapshot from My Studio: December 03, 2018 at 03:52PM
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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Snapshot from My Studio: December 01, 2018 at 08:31AM
Morning doodle.
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Snapshot from My Studio: November 30, 2018 at 02:26PM
Knot doodle critters. Playing in the creative sandbox. .
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Snapshot from My Studio: November 28, 2018 at 10:15AM
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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Snapshot from My Studio: November 27, 2018 at 12:30PM
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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Snapshot from My Studio: November 25, 2018 at 01:26PM
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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Snapshot from My Studio: November 24, 2018 at 08:47PM
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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