Day 8 of the #creativesandboxchallenge : kite. Think you can’t draw? Stick figures get the point across! Stick figures ROCK! Drawing as communication, rather than as “Art,” is POWERFUL! And anyone can do it!
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Inside the #creativesandboxcommunity, some people use the daily prompts of our monthly challenges to practice learning a new skill. Some people write, do poetry, practice illustration, paint, make music. I use the prompts to@build my visual vocabulary. There is no wrong way to use the prompts! Just as there is no wrong in the Creative Sandbox! (That’s Guidepost #1. 😊)
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Snapshot from My Studio: August 05, 2018 at 04:42PM
Practicing #bikablo figures at today’s #creativesandboxplayday. See more in my IG Story.
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Creative Sandbox Playday is a half-day co-working retreat to work (or play!) on whatever creative project(s) you want, in the company of others doing the same. Today was the FIRST ONE! And it was AMAZING! I’m exhausted and happy; fulfilled, inspired, glowing, and excited for the next one, tentatively slated for October 14.
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Together we overcome the gremlin chatter and perfectionism. Together we are capable of amazingness! 🖍
It’s been a good day. 😊
What have you been up to today?
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Snapshot from My Studio: August 04, 2018 at 11:42AM
August #creativesandboxchallenge day 4: crayon.
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A teeny-tiny crayon drawn with pens! Which look ginormous next to it. I don’t know why, but this just cracks me up. 😅
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I love how these daily prompts in the #creativesandboxcommunity nudge me to try things I wouldn’t necessarily otherwise try. And I love how we work together in the community to create things. Many minds bouncing ideas off each other inevitably lead to more exciting ideas together. 🖍
We produced an adult coloring book together. We make monthly creative challenges. We come up with all kinds of ideas that we DO together. I love that about the Creative Sandbox Community. 😊
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Snapshot from My Studio: August 03, 2018 at 07:40AM
August #creativesandboxchallenge day 3: beanstalk. Inside the #creativesandboxcommunity we are doing Creative Sandbox 101 this week — the eCourse that was the precursor to my book, The Creative Sandbox Way™. Today is all about Guidepost #6: Ask, “What if…?”, so today’s prompt, with its connotations of fairytales, is so appropriate! 🖍
Member @carla.la.la.olson designed this month’s challenge, so thoughtfully and beautifully. And yesterday on our first Rally Call of the month, another member who designs and hosts a lot of the monthly challenges, @doc_angi, and I were brainstorming ideas for the September challenge. 🖍
Members take the initiative inside the Creative Sandbox Community. If they have an idea, they get to run with it, because it is everyone’s community! 😊 I love the spirit of collaboration inside the Sandbox, and I’m always so excited to see what we’ll create next!
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Snapshot from My Studio: August 02, 2018 at 10:42AM
Today’s prompt in the August #creativesandboxchallenge inside the #creativesandboxcommunity is “cloud,” so here is a sketchbook page of different clouds. 🖍
I love the daily prompts in our monthly challenges! They give me a fun way to practice building my visual vocabulary, one day at a time. Other members use them to hone their drawing/illustration skills, or to write poetry or prose, or for photography. Simply as a nudge to CREATE, a teeny, tiny something, every day. In alignment with my Creative Sandbox Way™ Guidepost #4: Think tiny and daily! 😊
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The point is to DO IT, already, and stop letting all the circumstances of life be an excuse. Because we ALL have circumstances. All. The. Time. So are you going to let circumstances run your creative life? Or are you going to TAKE ACTION? 🖍
The size of the action DOES NOT MATTER. It’s the fact of the action that counts. 🖍
So what are you creating today?
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#doodle #clouds #dailydoodle #dailycreative #originalart #doodlesofinstagram #visualthinking #visualcommunication
Snapshot from My Studio: August 01, 2018 at 02:47PM
August 1 means it’s a brand new #creativesandboxchallenge! We have a different creative challenge inside the #creativesandboxcommunity each month—a gentle invitation for members to create something every day, based on my #creativesandboxway Guideposts, especially Guidepost #4: “Think tiny & daily”! It’s so easy to NOT do you’re creative thing, because you’re BUSY! You get stuck in the excuse of “I don’t have time!”
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Well, I call BS on “I don’t have time!” You can take 90 seconds and make a doodle, for goodness sake!
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Anyway, this month’s challenge is lovingly designed by @carla.la.la.olson, and draws inspiration from my Creative Sandbox Way™, which is so perfect! We’re all getting a much-needed reminder of Creative Sandbox principles this month! 😊
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Today’s prompt is “jump,” so I filled a sketchbook page with practice sketches of stick figures and star people jumping. None of them is quite the way I want them yet, but that’s how it goes: you practice in order to get it the way you want it! 😊 So I will keep practicing!
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What are you working on today?
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#jump #doodle #doodlesofinstagram #dailydoodle #dailycreative #originalart #visualthinking #visualcommunication
Snapshot from My Studio: July 31, 2018 at 11:43AM
It’s the last day of the July #creativesandboxchallenge inside the #creativesandboxcommunity and today’s prompt is “cheese.” So rather than my usual abstract mark, I made a Swiss cheese! 🖍
Then what? Everything in today’s doodle started from that Swiss cheese. So just like with my abstract doodles, I responded to what was there, and added something else. 🖍
It feels weird to combine iconographic doodles and abstract doodles, but I’m just rolling with it! And for right now, they’re turning into Doodlebot dreaming about things. Food is what Doodlebot seems to dream about a lot! 😊 🖍
And now that I’ve started this thing of combining abstract and iconographic doodles, we’ll see where it goes! Who knows? That’s the fun of it: discovering!
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What are you creating today? If you’re in Silicon Valley, join me on Sunday and let’s create together at Creative Sandbox Playday! A half day co-working retreat in Palo Alto on 8/5. Link in profile or go to http://bit.ly/2NWuyAa. Only $25! (Or if you’re an Etz Chayim member, contact me directly for a discount code.)
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Snapshot from My Studio: July 30, 2018 at 09:38AM
Quick morning doodle. .
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Snapshot from My Studio: July 28, 2018 at 10:53AM
Inside the #creativesandboxcommunity we are busting our clutter! It’s the #greatclutterbust right now, and I drew this doodle to fire myself up to attack my bedroom. 🖍
Doodlebot is cheering me on, along with everyone else inside the Sandbox. 😊 Clutterbusting is a team sport! It’s great to have a team cheering you on. 🖍
Off to work!
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Snapshot from My Studio: July 27, 2018 at 09:05AM
The prompt for today in the July #creativesandboxchallenge inside the #creativesandboxcommunity is “pear,” so I started with a pear in this doodle. Then it evolved into Doodlebot’s dream of yummy things to eat. 😊
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Snapshot from My Studio: July 26, 2018 at 10:58AM
Listening to @thecreativityhabit interview Murphy Funkhouser Capps while doodling http://bit.ly/2K2Zr3o
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The suitcase, teddy bear, and railroad tracks are all directly inspired from this amazing podcast episode. (Though the sticker on the suitcase is from our upcoming trip! Squee!)
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If you are looking for amazing, in depth stories from artists of all kinds, HUMAN stories, LIFE stories, you must check out The Creativity Habit™. I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Daphne, and it was a profound experience. Different from any other interview I’ve ever had. Daphne is a true Story Whisperer. Her podcast is a work of art. Go. Listen.
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Snapshot from My Studio: July 25, 2018 at 09:43AM
Underwater doodle while listening to my interview (part 1!) on @thecreativityhabit. I rarely listen to my own podcast interviews, but this one profoundly touched me. Daphne is a true Story Whisperer, AND we talked for FOUR HOURS to produce the two hours of this two-part podcast. 🖍
I’m finding it quite interesting and entertaining to listen to myself from the outside! 🖍
Find both parts of this intense interview at http://bit.ly/2A7eLwr Or visit @thecreativityhabit and find the link in her profile to her website. 🖍
(And did you notice that Doodlebot can breathe underwater?)
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