Creativity! [dedicated to you!]
February 10, 2011 by sketchbloom
The Creative License by Danny Gregory. Click for his blog and links!
Everywhere I turn these days i see the word Creativity..could this be a sign …cause I have not been posting that much???
This post is more like…four…but so be it.
The back of the book. Do you dare to be creative?
A dear student let me borrow this fantastic book: The Creative License: Giving yourself permission to be the artist you truly are. What a wonderful title. So this post, like the book is dedicated….
From Danny Gregory's book The Creative License.
This book is full of helpful suggestions, assignments and encouragements for artists, wannabe-artists and artists-to-be.
There are helpful tools, techniques and a great section on negative space. The style reminds me of Michael Nobbs and his ‘Start to Draw Your Life’ [find link to download his e-book
here]
I love this quote:
I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist’s ability to transform his or her life and, by example, the lives of others.
Audrey Flack
Inspired by the ‘sketch your life’ vibe,I finally got around drawing something that has been giving me JOY lately:
Ink and watercolor on paper and tracing paper. A bit of digital manipulation. Feb. 09,2011.
Yes! These magnific Illy concoctions have come to a freezer near you…I love these babies.
I also picked up the Oprah magazine…i do enjoy this publication…as a reader said ‘it brings a little magic into my life’. I devour news and ‘serious’ books ( I love novels, but have started a stack of non-fiction and architecture-related books in the past four years …and I am determined to finish it by the end of the year)…so sometimes Oprah reminds me to feed my spirit. Go ahead and judge:P
This month’s issue caught my eye, for the focus was creativity.
This is the un-quiz I am taking…designed by filmmaker Miranda July and Artist Harrell Fletcher, creators of the website
Learning to Love You More. Click for creative assignments!
If you are so lucky to have an Ipad, you can check out Oprah’s own sketchbook app,
SketchBook O.
Here are:
7 WAYS TO SPARK YOUR CREATIVITY:
(from designer Anna Rabinowicz)
1. Read Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
2. Go Outside
3. Start a collection
4. Touch Stuff
5. Travel Solo
6. Go Analog
7. Grab every opportunity
(read about this on this month’s issue of O, the Oprah Magazine)
One of the things I am always reminded of when I read Oprah is to give gratitude. It has been difficult lately, between my hypercritical mind, a full-out technological meltdown and a string of missed yoga classes. Nonetheless, I would like to give a shout out to these three creative individuals who are an inspiration!
1. Ghadah Alkandari @
prettygreenbullet: my blogsister, who elevates blogging to a religion, source of daily inspiration. I love you, woman.
Ghadah Alkandari, Goddess of Daily Goodness. This is her post from February 5,2011. Click to Ghadah.
2. Abbey Ryan @ abbeyryan.com
From Oprah's February Issue: the blog abbeyryan.com. She has posted an oil still life every day since 2007. WOW! Click to find Abbey.
3. St. Loup and his Secrets and Lies
Always thought-provoking…my virtual literary cafe’.
From St. Loup's Secrets and Lies: Maurice Ronnet Le feu Follet - Luis Malle (1963)
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What a post Miti!!!! SO good! I’m a huge fan of The Creative License, but the Oprah article was completely new [and exciting] to me! Thank you for sharing this…and your own creativity, with each and every post! You are always inspiring!
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Dear Suzanne….
it is YOU who is always inspiring to me. You are a Joy to read and just the thought of your blog and your spirit (you being out there, really, no corniness intended) bring me happiness. Your committment to drawing each day and everywhere is infectious!! hugs always!
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miti! i am honored and chuffed! thank you 🙂
ghadah
ps. i’m going to need a nice dining table for that family portrait!
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From urban dictionary:
chuffed :
To be very pleased, proud or happy with yourself
I just scored free tickets to the gig, I’m well chuffed!
Ghadina, you just helped me learn a new word! Sounds British!
It is my pleasure to read you and count you among my friends. Yes, the family portrait will be a challenge since mamma e papa’ and family are thousands of miles and and an ocean away. I will just have to draw the legs:))
I am SO curious to see how you are going to do the ‘assignments’. I love them! They are so ‘Situationists’…like a map to get lost;) I will have to check out the site of these creative types…well anything that comes out of san francisco is rather brilliant. Will you post on Oprah? We have eleven days! The video one is going to be hard for me…
See you on Pretty Green Bullet my compadrina!
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