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

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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#creativesandboxcommunity #creativesandboxchallenge #doodle #dailydoodle #dailycreative #dailyart #imperfectionism #letitbecrappy #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #doodlesofinstagram #doodleart #creativesandboxway #creativeplay #visualcommunication #hands

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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#heroes #hands #drawing #sketching #letitbecrappy #creativesandboxcommunity #creativesandboxchallenge #doodle #dailydoodle #dailycreative #dailyart #imperfectionism #letitbecrappy #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #doodlesofinstagram #tinyart #doodleart #creativesandboxway #creativeplay #pigmamicron #moleskine

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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#creativesandboxcommunity #virtualplayday #mixedmedia #creativesandboxway #abstractart #intentionalimperfectionism #creativeplay #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram

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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#creativesandboxcommunity #creativesandboxchallenge #doodle #dailydoodle #dailycreative #dailyart #imperfectionism #letitbecrappy #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #doodlesofinstagram #tinyart #abstractart #doodleart #creativesandboxway #creativeplay #knotdoodle #blackandwhite #pigmamicron #visualjournal