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.
Episode 394 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: preparing for a challenge and a “trying it on” mentality. Plus, microns and a colorful graphic novel.
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.
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.
Reflections on doing the daily Index-Card-a-Day Challenge, after one week of ballpoint ink drawings on index cards.
In Episode 242, want and need, packing to travel, 10 tips for working with ballpoint ink, the Obsessive Consumption book, and more.
Episode 238: a goat, a unicorn, a dog, a streak of hair color, and lots of talk about the 2017 Index Card a Day Challenge.
A look back at ICAD (Index-Card-a-Day) 2016 and getting ready for ICAD 2017.
Finding photos, taking photos, and creating a reference book of photos or magazine clippings.
Some ICAD cards take a different direction than I expect. As became the norm this summer, I often contemplated the daily prompts and then found some way to approach the prompt in my own way, often from a different angle or back door. Sometimes, no one else would even realize the prompt was there…. more…
Taking inventory of ICAD 2016 and the cards produced this summer.
