Morning doodle. My last full day before Creative Sandbox Retreat!! It’s finally here! Today is all about packing and final prep. So excited!!! 🖍
Meanwhile, I’m having the usual massive doubts about what to work on at the retreat! I was planning on working on my travel journal, using the photos I took from our trip to Paris and Basel to finally flesh out the days I didn’t manage to sketchnote while we were there. But of course now my gremlins are going crazy! “You’re nuts! It’s too late. You should have captured it all when you were there—you’ll never do it justice now. You’re not good enough anyway.” The usual gremlin chatter.
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Thankfully, I know how to deal with gremlins. I thank them for their concern, and send them off to get pedicures! 😆
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Snapshot from My Studio: September 08, 2018 at 07:25AM
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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Snapshot from My Studio: August 21, 2018 at 01:53PM
The latest from the Paris trip: Part One of the Achilles Tendon saga that started yesterday. 🖍
I haven’t had time to document the rest, which basically happened today, but suffice it to say I now own a pair of French crutches (to match the pair living in the closet at home… sigh… as if I needed another pair of crutches… but in fact, I did—RIGHT NOW!)
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The good news is I’m in less pain with crutches. At least my left Achilles is. The bad news is it’s a PITA to get anywhere! But on a positive note, I’m getting some fabulous exercise and a good upper body workout with every step! 😉
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To be continued… .
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Snapshot from My Studio: August 19, 2018 at 09:58AM
#Sketchnote of yesterday’s kickoff to our #vacation: the Polaris Lounge in SFO! Followed by a transatlantic flight in Polaris Business class!
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This had been a lifelong dream of mine (or at least as long as Polaris Business has existed!): to fly business class across the Atlantic, ideally on points. Which, quite accidentally, is how it transpired!
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It was pretty sweet. And.. at the end of the day, flying is still a PITA. Polaris just filed the edges down and makes it slightly less painful; it doesn’t actually eliminate the pain entirely, alas… 😜 Still, given my druthers, I’d take it over Economy any day of the week (as if somebody’s asking! 😂 .
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Snapshot from My Studio: August 17, 2018 at 11:30AM
Snapped in our Lyft on the way to SFO! My #sketchnote story of our #lastminuteluck that landed us in #polarisbusinessclass seats to Paris today!!!!! #squee !!!! 🖍
I was always afraid of #artjournaling, keeping a #sketchbookjournal and so on, due to my terrible #perfectionism. 😜 Now that I’m an intentional #imperfectionist, however, I’m starting to discover things like #sketchnoting and #artjournals for the fun of it (I.e., letting it be crap! 😊) 🖍
Turns out, when you let your #originalart be crap, it takes the pressure off, so it becomes fun again. You learn stuff along the way, too, so you can’t help but get better at it. 🖍
Funny how that works. 😊
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Snapshot from My Studio: August 16, 2018 at 11:55AM
Starting off my travel journal/sketchbook the day before the trip. Because you gotta test out the materials and make sure they work, right? Plus the getting ready IS part of the whole experience, after all!
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Now it’s off to run all my day-before errands! Gaaaahhhh! Tomorrow, Paris, here we come! I’ve been wanting to visit the City of Lights forEVER, andPlanning this trip for a year. I cannot believe it’s finally here! 😆😆😆
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Snapshot from My Studio: August 16, 2018 at 08:32AM
Rethinking my art packing strategy! I’ve always wanted a watercolor sketch box, and this takes up a lot less space than a roll of pencils… #accoutrements #didsomeonesayindecisive #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #watercolor #moleskine #sketchbook #artjournal #traveljournal #herewego #originalart
Snapshot from My Studio: August 14, 2018 at 10:46AM
Doodlebot is so anxious that we are going to forget something really important before going overseas! 🖍
Or maybe that’s just me…
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Snapshot from My Studio: August 13, 2018 at 09:40AM
Morning doodle. Doodlebot is having packing-for-overseas-trip anxiety. Or maybe that’s just me. .
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Snapshot from My Studio: August 10, 2018 at 10:02PM
Evening doodle.
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