Tracking a daily art challenge like ICAD with Notion.
Swatching Copic markers with various black ink fineliners. What will work best on index card for ICAD?
Episode 447 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: the CMP turns 15! Where we are today and a flashback to the first 50 shows.
Amy
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Episode 446 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: not sure it’s a party exactly, but it IS a 15 year podcast anniversary.
Amy
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ICAD flip-through of cards from several prior years of the summer Index-Card-a-Day art challenge.
Amy
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Thinking about my own ICAD 2021 series and 50+ Ideas for Index Card Art series you might consider for your summer series.
Amy
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Thoughts on ICAD 2021 and a look back at prior years of index card art for the summer Index-Card-a-Day Challenge.
Amy
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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 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 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 316 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: a check-in on the creative journey and a reminder that sometimes it takes practice to get where you want to go. (Most of the time.)
ICAD 2018 — thoughts on index-card-a-day on the Creativity Matters Podcast (CMP)
A recap of the 2017 Index-Card-a-Day Challenge and my series of 61 ballpoint portraits on index card.
Reflections on the 2017 Index-Card-a-Day (ICAD) Challenge Week 8 and a series of self-portraits in ballpoint ink.
Episode 246: Quotidian moments. Succulents in the morning light, ballpoint series, drawing family members, searching for creative community, and Page by Paige, a fantastic graphic novel about a young, coming-of-age, artist.
Reflections on week 6 of the 2017 Index-Card-a-Day Challenge and working in ballpoint ink. Week 6 marks a new comfort level and affinity for blue ink!
Episode 245 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: rebounding after a creative trip home, in-flight drawing, portraits, index cards, rainbow hair, and more!
Episode 244 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: daily challenges are different than works created over time, plus, a reminder to love what you do!
Reflecting on Week 4 of 2017 Index-Card-a-Day Challenge (ICAD). More Sktchy-app portrait drawings in ballpoint. The good, the bad, and the jarring.
Reflections on Week 3 of the ICAD challenge and thoughts on the importance of leaving comments and likes to support the work of others.
Thoughts on the Index-Card-a-Day (ICAD) challenge as week two concludes. Looking back and taking stock, fourteen days into the sixty-one day challenge.