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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#lessons #graphicrecording #visualcommunication #neulandmarkers #watercolor #imperfectionism #improv
Snapshot from My Studio: November 22, 2018 at 12:04PM
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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Snapshot from My Studio: November 19, 2018 at 12:08PM
Hands! Yikes! Hands are hard! These are an attempt to copy @evalottchen’s drawings of hands—she is SUCH an inspiration to me. If you haven’t yet followed her, run, do now walk to her Instagram feed, and sign up for her totally inspiring newsletter! She is the BOMB!
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Snapshot from My Studio: November 17, 2018 at 08:32PM
Today was Creative Sandbox Community Virtual Playday, my birthday celebration edition, and this is what I made. 😊 🖍
20+ participants made art together, shared resources, and cheered each other on. The variety of work created was stunning and inspiring, and I am excited to do it again!
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This is the kind of community we foster inside the Creative Sandbox Community. One of the participants today shared that her gremlins made her think she’s probably not as talented as the members of the Sandbox, but one of the members piped in, “no, no, no—we are supporting each other, including those comparison traps we *all* get caught up in periodically. Of course everyone brings different strengths and is at different points in their creative process/evolution, but it’s more about linking elbows and encouraging each other.”
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I couldn’t have said it better myself. 😊
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If you’d like to feel less alone in your creative explorations, link elbows with us. Link in profile, or http://bit.ly/2pPbRDZ
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Snapshot from My Studio: November 15, 2018 at 10:20AM
Big decisions rattling around in my head are making me feel like this tangly knot doodle. All tied up in knots! I’ll get to the other side, but it will take awhile. 🖍
Making art always helps. Come join me this Saturday! I’m opening my studio (virtually) and celebrating my birthday at Creative Sandbox Community Virtual Playday. Watch me make art and share my process, make your own art alongside me, and ask any questions you have about anything at all. You must register in advance for this live-only event. Link in profile or go to http://bit.ly/2CEGAwg
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Snapshot from My Studio: November 14, 2018 at 03:40PM
I’m currently in the middle of reassessing my morning routine. I *was* starting off with my shoulder rehab/strength training first thing, which I loved—it got me in a good frame of mind, got my workout out of the way and done, and set me up to meditate next. But… I found that I wasn’t always getting to my art. Sigh…
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Lately I’ve been back to journaling and doodling first thing, which puts me in a great frame of mind mentally… but then I don’t always get to my workout and meditation! Sigh…
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Of course, there is an obvious solution: go to bed at 9pm and get up at 4am! 😂 Yeah, right…
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What’s your morning routine?
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Meanwhile, join me this Saturday, November 17th, for my birthday celebration and Virtual Playday! Watch me make art and share my process, make your own art right alongside me, and ask any questions you might have (about anything at all!) 🖍
Advance registration required for this live-only event. Link in profile, or go to http://bit.ly/2CEGAwg to sign up. .
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#creativesandboxcommunity #creativesandboxchallenge #doodle #dailydoodle #dailycreative #dailyart #imperfectionism #letitbecrappy #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #doodlesofinstagram #tinyart #abstractart #doodleart #creativesandboxway #creativeplay #blackandwhite #pigmamicron #visualjournal
Snapshot from My Studio: November 13, 2018 at 08:06AM
Tuesday morning doodle. All tied in knots. Actually, this is about how the left side of my back feels this morning, now that I think of it: all tied in knots. Major spasm since Sunday night—ugh! 😜 Hopefully doing my shoulder rehab will help. I’ll try rolling on a rubber ball for a bit first, to try and loosen up the spasmy muscles. 🖍
In any case, making art always puts me in a good mood and lowers my blood pressure. Doing this doodle made me so happy! I did it in a sketchbook instead of on a postcard. I decided to take all the pressure off—this doodle is unlikely to be sent to anyone, so if truly is pure creative sandbox play. Just for me. And guess what? That’s almost always when my best stuff comes out! 😅 Or at least my most free stuff. Which is usually my best stuff. 🖍
How can you free yourself up to play more? For me, it was switching back to a sketchbook today. What about you?
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Snapshot from My Studio: November 12, 2018 at 10:29PM
Late night doodle, just before going to bed. Somehow the gremlins didn’t bug me so much tonight, perhaps because I was “just doodling” in a sketchbook before bed. No harm, no foul, from their perspective. 😉 And from mine, it makes me giddily happy to PLAY! Pure play in the creative sandbox, letting my inner 4-year-old inhabit the tip of the pen and have free rein.
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This Saturday I’ll be doodling live—pens, paints, the whole shebang—on streaming video. It’s a Virtual Playday to celebrate my birthday, and you’re invited! Totally free. Come watch me make art and share my process, make art alongside me (virtually), and ask any questions you want (about anything you want!) It’s totally free! The only catch is you have to register in advance at http://bit.ly/2CEGAwg (or click the link in my Instagram profile). 🖍
I hope you can join me at this live-only event! 😊
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Snapshot from My Studio: November 12, 2018 at 07:23AM
Sketchnotes from yesterday’s seminar with East Side Institute, “PLAY: A Luxury for the Privileged or a Necessity for All?”, moderated by Carrie Lobman. I was so pleased to be introduced to these play activists! Olga Jarrett, Paola López, and Omar Ali. Each using play to change the world. Bravo!
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#play #eastsideinstitute @carrielobman #sketchnotes #sketchnote #sketchnotearmy #visualcommunication #graphicrecording #visualnotes #pigmamicron #moleskine #playactivist #playactivism
Snapshot from My Studio: November 09, 2018 at 01:07PM
Gratitude to @evalottchen for giving me a formula for drawing a handshake in her latest newsletter! This has always stumped me, but @evalottchen broke it down into an easy-to-follow series of steps, which she shows in a delightful animated GIF at the bottom of the email! Bless you! Now I have a fool-proof system I can always fall back on! 🎉🍾🎈
#teachersarethebest #visualcommunication #sketchnotes #visualnotes #handshake #graphicrecording #graphicfacilitation #visualthinking #vizthink
Snapshot from My Studio: November 08, 2018 at 01:40PM
You would not believe how loud my “this is a waste of time” gremlins were when I started playing on this doodle today! Yes, I have those gremlins, too—just as bad as anyone else. We teach what we need to learn, after all! 😊
My gremlins snarl, and moan, and rave at me that this abstract doodle CRAP that I do is dreck. A complete and utter waste. They tell me I should be drawing REAL THINGS. PEOPLE. ANYTHING but what I’m doing. That I’m frittering away whatever pathetic scrap of talent I might actually have. That EVERYTHING I do is stupid, and why the **** do I even bother anyway?! 🖍
Some days it’s very hard not to believe them. But when I’m able to thank my gremlins for their concern, send them off to get pedicures, and go right on ahead with the business of playing in the creative sandbox, you know what? I start to care less about what they say. Because the fun and the joy and the FEELING ALIVE start to take over. And when I feel alive, whether what I’m doing is a “waste of time” according to someone else ceases to matter anymore. 🖍
Are there other skills I’d love to hone? Yes, indeed! AND I still need creative sandbox playtime, and I always will. It will never be a waste of time, no matter what the gremlins might tell me.
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Go make a mess. Go play. It’s good for your soul, and that’s never a waste of time. .
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Snapshot from My Studio: October 26, 2018 at 06:23AM
Due to popular demand, here’s page 2 of my Nashville Airport Lyft ride adventure. 😊
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