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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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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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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