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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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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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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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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20 years ago, 10 years ago, maybe even 5 years ago, marks like this would never have left my pen intentionally. If I had made marks like this, I would have been embarrassed, mortified, ashamed. I wanted to make *beautiful* things, *precise* things. I thought I had to control everything — for it to be “perfect” — in order for it to be acceptable… and for *me* to be acceptable (read: worthy of love).
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Interestingly, I could go to a Museum of Modern Art and accept that *other* artists could make crazy, wild, abstract weirdness, and even be lauded for it, but for some reason I had a different set of standards for myself. I guess I bought into the notion that I had to learn to draw and paint photorealistically perfectly *first*, and *then* I could break away from that and explore other modes of expression…? 🖍
Honestly, it’s been so long, I don’t remember. All I know is that marks like this were UGLY, and unacceptable to me. I NEVER would have made something like this!!! 😂
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And yet all this time, this is what my inner 4-year-old was dying to make! Because my inner 4-year-old is not concerned with conventional standards of “beauty” or “propriety”! All she cares about is following her curiosity!
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Thank goodness I’m more inclined to follow her lead these days. It’s a whole heckuva lot more fun. 😊👍
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