If you watch, you can often scoop a good trial or even a span of “free” days at CreativeBug. I have been really impressed with the classes I’ve watched. I think they are very well done, really engaging, and <em>easy</em> to watch. Even the “daily”-type classes are easy to binge watch. I find it makes… more…
Episode 368 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: a review of Creative Watercolor, a fantastic book, meaningful quotes, and other snippets.
Episode 367 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: thoughts on an illustrated journal project for my “approaching 50” year.
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.
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.
Episode 364 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: making a birthday day “to do” list to help guide and anchor the day.
Episode 363 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: a flip-through of a wonderful and large collection from Oliver Jeffers.
Episode 362 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: looking at each week’s work as a whole with a #52weeks grid and scrolling your feed.
Episode 361 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: random talk at the start of a new year, a list in the making.
Episode 360 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: in celebration of the wonder and whimsy around us, a non-lemur moment, and more.
Episode 359 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: thinking through what to take for your creative projects when you travel! Simplify!
Series 2 postcards to help support the Creativity Matters Podcast are now available!
Episode 358 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: visual- and word-based thinking, storytelling, associative memories, and visualizing a teapot.
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.
Episode 354 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: discussion of the inspiring The Painted Art Journal: 24 Projects for Creating Your Visual Narrative book.
Episode 353 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: a “three things” mentality, thoughts on #the100dayproject and #oneweek100people, and cake.
Episode 352 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: a look inside Samantha Dion Baker’s Draw Your Day and thoughts on the value and importance of keeping a visual or illustrated journal.
Episode 351 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: appreciating and being open to the possibilities offered by points of pivot. Pivots come in all sizes, but they can be powerful!
Episode 350 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: tagalong projects that you can’t let go.
Episode 349 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: a review of Ladies Drawing Night and talk about finding and making creative connections, friends, and community.
Episode 348 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: a review of Bibliophile, an awesome book of book stack and book spine art (and more) by Jane Mount.
Episode 347 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: the power and inspiration of a walk-about.
Episode 346 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: reviews and summary of three books on planning and bullet journaling.
Episode 345 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: planner talk, bullet journaling talk, being the only listmaker in the family, and a quilted composition book cover.
Episode 344 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: final thoughts for December 2018, a few holiday stories, an ugly sweater moment or two, and some year-end looking back, loosely, at what the year that was can tell us about the year to come.