This week I taught a creativity workshop, took a drawing workshop and a Zine workshop, and I told a story on stage at a public event.
Today, I’m going to an ‘Art Crawl’ where people can drop by our organization’s table to try a couple of activities.
I just need to add some writing to my day today and this will be a perfectly creative week.
The workshop yesterday was delightful. Exactly what I needed.
And even though I didn’t completely understand what was going on, the instructor’s approach made it safe to feel that way.
It was a really interested exploration of the patterns of our inner worlds – not our mental space but our sense of our bodies from the inside.
*To be clear though, these fears of being the only one who doesn’t get it were not irrational. That exact scenario has played out MANY times.
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.
I have many many different versions of drawings like this – a figure, back on, standing on a hill, reaching their arms towards the sky.
I don’t know exactly why I am drawn (ha!) to draw this so often but I am and I do.
Today, I experimented with creating this image from dots.
I really like how the sky turned out but I think that, next time, I’ll make the figure taller with longer arms.
