Launching the Capture the Wow Summer Scavenger Hunt has been exciting. We’ve got over 100 people playing and I hope to see at least 300 people playing the Scavenger Hunt this summer!
I’m learning a lot about what wows me, and also about how I react to insisting on more play in my life. [Read more...]
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At the beginning of summer, many of us are choosing the perfect notebook for our summer explorations.
I’ve been working on my Another Perfect Couple series, and have eight couples captured on paper. Here’s one of my favorites.
What notebook are you using this summer? Are you playing the Capture the Wow Scavenger [Read more...]
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I had the great, good fortune of being able to interview my art and life hero, Danny Gregory.
Danny’s recent book, A Kiss Before You Go, is an illustrated memoir recounting the year after Danny’s wife Patty passed away. It’s moving and gorgeous and heart breaking and life affirming all at once.
I [Read more...]
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I got to meet with one of my art and life heroes, Danny Gregory, to interview him about how to write an illustrated memoir. I’ll be showing that video here next week.
When we turned the camera off and I showed Danny my journal, I said I wanted someone to point the way for me [Read more...]
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This is your formal invitation to play the Capture the Wow Summer Scavenger Hunt with me! Let’s make this our most creative summer ever!
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If you’re like me, summer is your favorite season. You relish the chance to play outside more. To eat farm-fresh produce. To lie under a tree relaxing.
You want to make the most of summer. So do I. One of the ways I do that is to capture the wonders of my world in [Read more...]
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The best speaker at the 99U conference earlier this month, hands down, was Jane ni Dhulchaointigh, founder of Sugru.
Perhaps I should say hands up, because she was the only speaker to incite a standing ovation.
Jane said a lot of things I captured during my New York week but this was the best. Her process of creating [Read more...]
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I would have had another workshop meltdown if I hadn’t set a clear intention before I went:
You will NOT spend any time in Seattle crying in the street.
I set this intention because every time I take an art class, at some point during the instruction, I sink into despair. Learning curves are steep [Read more...]
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Last weekend, I went to Seattle to take an Urban Sketching workshop, Line to Color. Classes in the craft of art or writing can give us a lot to work on in our art.
As I took notes, some of the lessons in drawing appeared to me as life lessons too. These truisms could be considered [Read more...]
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It’s really hard to give yourself a mid-term assessment. But since I set out to create and follow my own art school curriculum, I must make a stab at charting progress.
Rather than write an exhaustive explanation of all I did, felt and thought, or even a summary of that, I’m doing a list review of [Read more...]
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