Fighting a migraine. Rizatriptan, Tylenol, acupressure, and doodling.
#retreat #creativesandbox #doodling #doodleart #blackandwhite #pigmamicron #originalart #organicart #intuitiveart #makeart #gogetcreating
Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie
Happiness, Self-fulfillment, Creativity, Productivity, Practical Inspiration, Mentoring, Life Design for Creatives and Multi-Passionate People
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Fighting a migraine. Rizatriptan, Tylenol, acupressure, and doodling.
#retreat #creativesandbox #doodling #doodleart #blackandwhite #pigmamicron #originalart #organicart #intuitiveart #makeart #gogetcreating
Friday afternoon is a paste paper-making party at the FOC Retreat. It’s a tradition! I don’t always participate — sometimes I’m deep in some other kind of creating. But this year I was all over it! Here are 4 of the many pieces of paper I decorated with colored paste.
What is paste paper? Think finger painting for adults, and you won’t be far off. Just about as much fun as you can have in an afternoon!
#pastepaper #originalart #makestuff #gogetcreating #artplay #focretreat #santasabinacenter #fun #fullcolorlife #livingacreativelife #creativesandbox
Having fun with watercolor.
#workinprogress #originalart #organicart #watercolor #zillerink #abstractart #focretreat #creativesandbox #livingacreativelife #fullcolorlife #artplay #makeart #makestuff #gogetcreating
Verso with color:
yes
there is still
time.
#bookpagepoetry #alteredbook #whiteoutpoetry #blackoutpoetry #originalart #organicart #mixedmedia #watercolorground #watercolor #zillerink #abstractart #creativesandbox #focretreat
Recto with color:
adequate
happy
Does
shift
luck
for
you
darling
#bookpagepoetry #alteredbook #whiteoutpoetry #blackoutpoetry #originalart #organicart #mixedmedia #watercolorground #watercolor #zillerink #abstractart #creativesandbox #focretreat
Now with color! From the chapter, How to Select a Husband:
yes
there is still
time.
adequate
happy
Does
shift
luck
for
you
darling
#bookpagepoetry #alteredbook #whiteoutpoetry #blackoutpoetry #originalart #organicart #mixedmedia #watercolorground #watercolor #zillerink #abstractart #creativesandbox #focretreat
And lest you think about I’ve forgotten about this WIP, here is how it looks after this morning’s drawing-in-bed session. ?
#doodleart #morningart #morningdoodle #creativesandbox #abstractart #originalart #organicart #makeart #expressiveart #gogetcreating #justdrawdammit
Verso:
yes
there is still
time.
#alteredbook #whiteoutpoetry #blackoutpoetry #originalart #workinprogress #bookpagepoetry #bookart #watercolorground #livingacreativelife #creativesandbox #fullcolorlife #makestuff #makeart #gogetcreating
Recto:
adequate
happy
Does
shift
luck
for
you
darling
#alteredbook #whiteoutpoetry #blackoutpoetry #originalart #workinprogress #bookpagepoetry #bookart #watercolorground #livingacreativelife #creativesandbox #fullcolorlife #makestuff #makeart #gogetcreating
Starting a new spread in my altered book, Win Him If You Want Him, published in 1937.
These pages now say:
yes
there is still
time.
adequate
happy
Does
shift
luck
for
you
darling
#alteredbook #whiteoutpoetry #blackoutpoetry #bookart #bookpagepoetry #watercolorground #originalart #workinprogress #makeart #makestuff #fullcolorlife #creativesandbox #livingacreativelife
Somebody (Fred, if you want to know) called an earlier version of this piece “Anteater Convention.” Now that’s all I can see. I always had a soft spot for anteaters.
#workinprogress #originalart #organicart #doodleart #blackandwhite #willbeacoloringpage #abstractart #livingacreativelife #creativesandbox #fullcolorlife #pittartistpen #makestuff #gogetcreating
20 more minutes on this drawing today, but for the rest of the week, I’ll have a lot more drawing time, because in a few hours I’m headed to the Friends of Calligraphy Annual Spring Retreat!!! I am giddy with excitement! This will be the 14th time I’ve gone — I’ve missed only one retreat since 2002!
Arriving at Santa Sabina Center is like coming home. My blood pressure drops about ten points just pulling into the parking lot.
For five days, 30 of us create together in companionable silence, in a big room we call the Scriptorium (though usually only a fraction of us actually do any calligraphy ?). There is dedicated table space for each person, and it is indescribably delicious to be in that room, working on your own project, hearing the small sounds of other people creating: pens scratching on paper, brushes swishing in water jars, book pages turning.
I like to sit in the back, so I can look up and see everyone else at work.
Being surrounded by other creators at work has a way of supercharging your own creativity. As does UNINTERRUPTED CREATE TIME!
None of the distractions of daily life are tugging at you: no laundry, no phone calls, no computer… And no cooking! Delicious meals are prepared for us three times a day (plus there’s the snack table–Friends of Calligraphy is also known as “Friends of Food,” and it shows in the overabundance of goodies on the snack table! From the piles of food people bring for the snack table, you’d think they starved us at Santa Sabina.) I love this retreat so much that four years ago I started hosting my own, Create & Incubate Retreat, every August, at a retreat center closer to where I live. So now I get to retreat twice a year!
Join me and work on your painting, your novel, your scrapbook, your poetry, your photography, your mosaics, or whatever (quiet) project you wish! You can read all about it at http://bit.ly/1RjktHI ?
#originalart #organicart #doodleart #abstractart #blackandwhite #creativesandbox #fullcolorlife #livingacreativelife #workinprogress #drawfirstthing #makeart #makestuff #morningart #gogetcreating