Episode 402 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: a short, 10-minute, draw along. Grab your sketchbook, and draw while you listen!
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Episode 401 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: a field-note and a draw along all in one, with a book stack, a jigsaw puzzle, and a cup of coffee.
Amy
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Episode 400 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: another field-note style draw along show. Grab your own drawing, your painting, your sketchbook, and a fresh cup of coffee and join me for a half-hour of drawing and creative talk.
Episode 399 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: another field-note style draw along show. Grab your own project and a fresh cup of coffee and join me for a half-hour of drawing and creative talk.
Episode 398 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: another field-note style draw along show. Grab your own pen or pencil and sketchbook and join me for 20 minutes of drawing and talking.
Episode 397 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: a field-note style draw along show. Grab your own pen or pencil and sketchbook and join me for a half-hour of drawing and creative talk.
Amy
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Episode 396 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: the wonderful (and somehow challenging) check-in each week of the “currently list.”
Amy
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Episode 395 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: catching sight of an unexpected ferris wheel after visiting tiled steps and climbing to a lookout point.
Amy
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Episode 394 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: preparing for a challenge and a “trying it on” mentality. Plus, microns and a colorful graphic novel.
Amy
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Episode 393 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: It’s okay. Thoughts on summer art, ICAD, prepping for a series, and a creative book.
Amy
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Episode 392 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: five minutes, the long and the short of it. Plus, a book of affirmations.
Amy
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Episode 391 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: pandemic time, silly moments with the boys on a walk up Twin Peaks, and a first drawing group.
Amy
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Episode 390 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: embracing the quirky nature of the show, reading Glass Hotel and Lumberjanes, and sock knitting.
Amy
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Episode 389 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: coming to appreciate elements of freedom, quiet, and open roads during the pandemic. Plus, the appearance of cedar waxwings.
Amy
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Episode 388 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: rice pudding, a white-crowned sparrow, my 50 before 50 list, and the nuances of story.
Amy
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Episode 387 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: a chalk rainbow and a rainbow for the window.
Episode 386 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: the need to process, track, and have time to simply “be” in the middle of this pandemic.
Episode 385 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: mindfulness, self-care, balancing, and a contour-based mindfulness drawing exercise.
Episode 384 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: books, reaching out during times of social distancing and shelter-in-place, and drawing daily
Episode 383 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: mindfulness, drawing in the midst of anxiety, whimsy, and teapots in a tree.
Episode 382 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: keeping a quadrant diary, looking, seeing, and recording daily details, and the challenge of illustrating the scene.
Episode 381 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: the stories we tell and what we record in our journals and sketchbooks. Plus, 3 things.
Episode 380 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: update on a year of soup, Gilmore Girls cookbooks, Sally’s Baking Addiction, and Shultz.
Episode 379 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: creative routines, journaling and journals, slow stitching, Sketchbook Project, and tea.
Amy
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Episode 378 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: learning to understand that feeling you’re after and what it takes to cultivate, find, claim.
Amy
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Episode 377: drawing monsters, chairs, a desk, and more. Plus, a late bloom.
Episode 376: the this and that of the last few weeks and the sewing of a striped pillow.
Amy
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Questions to help you plan for a fulfilling and creative new year in 2020
A short list of year end review questions to help you record a snapshot of your creative year before moving into the new year.