Episode 468 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: A continuation of the discussion on loosening up, staying loose, and balancing the loose and the tight in your art, sketchbooks, and creative processes.
Episode 467 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: Thoughts on loosening up, staying loose, and balancing the loose and the tight. (Part 1 of 2)
Episode 466 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: Cleaning out the trunk, finding a “lost” notebook cover (when I wasn’t looking), and thinking about why we make and keep art
Episode 465 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: Planning for a summer series, Index-Card-a-Day, enjoying and finding your creative lane, and more
Episode 448 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: reflecting on the birthday, on the two years of self-portraits, on a year with a list and one without, and a 100 Things list.
50 Before 50 Journal Flip-through
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
Creative Journey | Featured | Gratitude | ICAD | Philosophical Threads | Podcast creative, creative life, habits, routine, series
Episode 446 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: not sure it’s a party exactly, but it IS a 15 year podcast anniversary.
Amy
Creative Journey | Featured | Gratitude | ICAD | Philosophical Threads | Podcast creative, creative life, habits, routine, series
ICAD flip-through of cards from several prior years of the summer Index-Card-a-Day art challenge.
Amy
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Episode 445 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: tips for the Index-Card-a-Day Challenge (ICAD) and ideas for thinking about doing a series.
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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Thoughts on choosing a project for #the100dayproject 2019.
Episode 373 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: gratitude, repeat projects, thoughts on Inktober 2019 and favorite series, and more.
Amy
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Episode 367 of the Creativity Matters Podcast: thoughts on an illustrated journal project for my “approaching 50” year.
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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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…
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.
A raven on the street, thoughts on morning processes and late-night drawings, managing your creative time and routine. Plus, a guest visit from Tammy of Daisy Yellow about doing the Index-Card-a-Day (ICAD) challenge.