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
50 | Creative Journey | Featured | Philosophical Threads | Podcast | Quilting drawing, pillow, podcast, sewing
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.
Episode 375: paper cranes, snowflakes, drawing ornaments, and an inspiring book about women in art history.
Amy
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Episode 1909 / CMP Unplugged: Creative Watercolor Color Cont’d
Episode 1908 / CMP Unplugged: Imagine a Forest Cont’d
Episode 366 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: I check “try ukulele” off the year list! Plus, a review of a great folk art book, Imagine a Forest.
Amy
50 | Books | Creative Journey | Featured | Lists | Philosophical Threads | Podcast | Ukulele 50 before 50, book, creative journey, drawing, folk art, journal, life, list, listmaking, podcast, ukulele
Episode 365 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: making and living a “50 Before 50” list — and thoughts on the value of this kind of list.
Amy
50 | Creative Journey | Featured | Lists | Philosophical Threads | Podcast 50 before 50, bucket list, creative journey, journal, life, list, listmaking, podcast
Episode 364 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: making a birthday day “to do” list to help guide and anchor the day.
Amy
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Episode 1907 / CMP Unplugged: Orange Spine Cont’d
Episode 362 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: looking at each week’s work as a whole with a #52weeks grid and scrolling your feed.
Amy
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Episode 361 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: random talk at the start of a new year, a list in the making.
Amy
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Episode 360 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: in celebration of the wonder and whimsy around us, a non-lemur moment, and more.
Amy
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Episode 359 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: thinking through what to take for your creative projects when you travel! Simplify!
Episode 358 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: visual- and word-based thinking, storytelling, associative memories, and visualizing a teapot.
Amy
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Considering ballpoint again for index card art and ICAD this summer — instead of Copic markers. I’ll still be working in color!
Simmer. Percolate. Stew. Consider. Contemplate. Ponder. All of those things! Over the weekend, I suddenly thought, “I should make my ICAD series a series of possible logos for the CMP.” That idea has merit. It really does. A series of 61 cards all with the intent of being used as cover art (or maybe a… more…
A look at my involvement in ICAD through the years, from stuffed things to ballpoint to Copic marker and portraits.
Episode 357 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: a story about a finch, a couple of dominoes, some talk about making art in a series, and a review of Sketchbook Explorations by Shelley Rhodes.
Episode 356 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: the 100 day project and a series of simple contour drawings of everyday people.
Episode 355 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: get inspired by storybook affirmation of creativity with whimsical illustration from Peter Reynolds.
Amy
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