What it’s like to be in a community play
I live in a community in which storytelling is a big deal. In fact, Jonesborough, Tennessee, is known as the Storytelling Capital of the World. The International Storytelling Center is right across the street from our courthouse. Storytelling night is a regular thing with the locals. And collecting stories is a passion for many of […]
An Expected Journey
Hello everyone! My husband and I decided to celebrate the end of my recent bout of chemotherapy and subsequent negative CT scan with an Adventure. So I won’t be posting for a few weeks. Expect a new post around mid-May and I’ll try not to disappoint! In the meantime, I hope you all stay healthy […]
Doodling for Focus and Inspiration
In conjunction with my last post, I thought I’d share a fun way that I use sometimes to get out of the “expectation” mode and into the “focus” mode. There are just some days when I want to make something but have no idea what to draw or paint. Those are the days when I […]
Are you a victim of your own expectations?
Do you find yourself feeling so frustrated with your artwork or your creating habits that you feel powerless to create? It could mean you are a victim of your expectations.
Unraveled Wednesday…a bit late
This week’s show-and-tell is my finished hat!
Analyzing Dreams, and Unraveled Wednesday: 19 Jan 2022
Do your dreams help your creative efforts? Plus, knitting progress on my hat…
How Cocooning Helps My Practice
Cocooning is needed by creatives, but I think it’s seldom considered a beneficial part of art practice. The brain needs time to mash up ideas subconsciously, time to percolate various experiences and thoughts in order to generate new ideas. Winter seems to be a natural season for this: a time for the brain to marinate all its juicy creative mish-mash
Book Review: The Making of an Artist
What does it take to make an artist? Is it really a matter of being born with talent or does it take desire, courage and commitment as it says in the title? Or is there something else needed in order to “be an artist”? This book examines the need for formal education as well as the personal qualities required to be an artist.
Choosing a Word of Intention, and Rejoining Unraveled Wednesday
What’s your Word of Intention for 2022? Join me for a little chat about them, along with this week’s knitting WIP.
Walking Makes You More Creative
An Adobe study discovered that people identified more good ideas than bad while walking, and that a residual effect from the walking session gave them more and better ideas while sitting than the control group of all-sitters.