April Fooling with Faces and Forms Creative Sandbox Community Challenge, day 3: crazy. 🖍
Tomorrow is “moustache”—that should be fun! 🙂
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Inspired by the adorable profile people of @loosetoothcom, behold Day 2 of the April Creative Sandbox Challenge hosted by @doc_angi inside the Creative Sandbox Community — Fooling with Faces & Forms. Day 2’s prompt: big nose. 🖍
Join the fun by making your own big nose face, and sharing it with the hashtags #creativesandboxchallenge and #aprilsandboxchallenge, and then come back tomorrow for day 3: crazy. 🖍
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New Visual Shownotes™ today, this time from my own podcast—the Creative Sandbox Way™ episode 154, Paul McCarthy Is the British Ninja, with @uclamartialarts.
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Yes, I used Photoshop to add his photo, because hey, I *can*, and I thought it would be cool. 😎
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Let me know what you think! Have a listen to the podcast at http://bit.ly/2Je9BiG, and let me know if you like these visual highlights. 😊
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It’s a new month, and a new creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community, this time hosted by @doc_angi. The theme: April Fooling with Faces & Forms. So perfect for playing with making expressions on my flip chart people! 🖍
Today’s prompt (of course, since it’s April Fools’ day) is “foolish.”
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I found some inspiration from cartoon faces. Always a great place to look for exaggerated expressions! I don’t know if they quite capture “foolish,” but they’re what I’ve got today.
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Wanna Play? Make your own “foolish” face and hashtag it #creativesandboxchallenge and #aprilsandboxchallenge. Then come back tomorrow for day 2: big nose! 👃 🖍
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In just over a week, April 7-8, in Albany, CA, I’ll be teaching this style of calligraphy — Neuland (not to be confused with Neuland markers, though you can certainly DO Neuland calligraphy with Neuland markers! Although we’ll primarily be using Zig 5mm markers and steel pens) — at a two-day workshop for the Friends of Calligraphy.
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I’m going back to my roots, coming full circle. Not only did I used to be a professional calligrapher and calligraphy teacher, but Neuland was what I taught at my first-ever workshop, way back in the 90s!
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I gave a demo of Neuland at the Friends of Calligraphy Spring Retreat a couple of years ago, which is what led to this gig. But it’s been so long since I’ve taught the full workshop that NONE of my lesson plans were in digital form! Just handwritten scraps.
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Guess who has been putting everything into MS Word this week? 😁
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I hope teaching is like a 🚲
I know it’s one of my favorite things, ever.
And I know I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve that I didn’t have the last time I taught, thanks to all the new tools I’ve been learning! 🖍
I’m always nervous before I teach, but if past experience is any indicator, learning will happen, and a good time will be had by all, including me. 😊
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