I love teaching workshops.
I love the energy.
I love creating a space where people have room to try out ideas, to think about their work differently, and to be a little kinder to themselves about the things they are trying to do.
And today’s group was filled with especially wonderful people who enjoyed taking that little bit of time for their creativity.
And I enjoyed helping them.
It’s a whole pile of fun…
I’m having one of those revelations that feels so familiar that I’m sure I have had it before and just didn’t carry it far enough.
With a lot of my writing and drawing, I have often said that I enjoy the creative practice but I don’t feel like it is going anywhere. I feel like it isn’t leading to anything.
I am already very creativity-oriented so I don’t need to add creativity for its own sake – I already have that baked into my life.
What I need is a way to help me focus and do something that has a plan, something with a defined end point. A reason to start and then to stop some specific aspects of my practices.
A way to see my skills develop.
A bit of a challenge.
I need to pick some damn projects, assign myself a time frame, and then make some cool stuff.
I may have had this revelation before but this incarnation feels really useful and tangible.
Well, truth be told, most of the drawing I do is for fun but this is a little different.
A good friend of mine bought us both a copy of Johanna Basford’s 30 Days of Creativity so we could work on it together.
So I get the fun of drawing from prompts AND the fun of working on this at the same time as my friend.
My brain is being a bit of a jerk today so I spent a bit of time listening to an audiobook and drawing and colouring this.
It helped a bit.
