Happy June, My Friends! Where has the time gone? I've been MIA on the blog in part because I've been trying to write, write, write, and finish up my little book on creativity. So close! My working title is "The Perpetual Visitor: A Field Guide For Everyday Artists" and in honor of being on the homestretch, I wanted to do something a little different here on the blog this week both to motivate myself to keep going, moment by moment, and in the process, hopefully inspire some of you to find tiny ways every day to be an Everyday Artist. Are you in?
Drum roll, please....introducing the Creative Challenge Week here on the blog! This week, Monday through Friday, I am going to challenge myself to post something new every day. BUT. Here's the catch. Today is the only day that I will be writing a traditional style blog post. The rest of the week's posts will consist of new ways to express my day, each and very day, and no two days can be the same. I might write a poem one day, sketch a cartoon the next, and so on and so forth. The idea is to break myself out of my own creative box I have felt stuck in lately, and give myself a little room to play in a way that isn't sticking to the same old writing process.
With that, I'm off to enjoy the sunshine and divine breeze floating through my newly planted rose bush. I will be back Monday with something new--even I don't know what it will be yet. Half the fun of creativity is being spontaneous and the planner in me is just going to have to come along for the ride this week as I decide on a whim how I feel like expressing myself. Road trip!
Hoping you will join me for the week of creative challenges, and wishing you a weekend full of whatever makes you feel recharged!
Drum roll, please....introducing the Creative Challenge Week here on the blog! This week, Monday through Friday, I am going to challenge myself to post something new every day. BUT. Here's the catch. Today is the only day that I will be writing a traditional style blog post. The rest of the week's posts will consist of new ways to express my day, each and very day, and no two days can be the same. I might write a poem one day, sketch a cartoon the next, and so on and so forth. The idea is to break myself out of my own creative box I have felt stuck in lately, and give myself a little room to play in a way that isn't sticking to the same old writing process.
With that, I'm off to enjoy the sunshine and divine breeze floating through my newly planted rose bush. I will be back Monday with something new--even I don't know what it will be yet. Half the fun of creativity is being spontaneous and the planner in me is just going to have to come along for the ride this week as I decide on a whim how I feel like expressing myself. Road trip!
Hoping you will join me for the week of creative challenges, and wishing you a weekend full of whatever makes you feel recharged!
