One of the services I offer my clients: naming the elephants in the room.
OBSESSED. Yup, that’s me. Obsessed. I did about three dozen drawings over the course of 48 hours. Two factors contributed to this. One: environment. I spent most of the weekend at Sea Ranch with my FrogSisters. Good company, good food & drink, beautiful weather on the coast. Two: materials. I bought a couple of new, […]
Art Every Day Month was obviously on my mind as I perused the new titles at Northlight Books yesterday. I picked up a copy of Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun by Carla Sonheim. It is chock-full of drawing exercises and games, structures to help you loosen up and […]
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In 2004, Massachussetts artist Leah Piken Kolidas declared November to be Art Every Day Month. I absolutely LOVE this idea (even though I’m already three or four days behind)! For awhile I have been feeling that I need more structure and discipline in order to improve my drawing. My “happiness guru,” Gretchen Rubin, states that […]
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>Garr Reynolds (author of Presentation Zen, one of my favorite books) has compiled some great thoughts, images, and video snippets on the importance of play.
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