I did my usual process in reverse today and it shows. I almost didn't post this one. I don't like it very much. Next week I have a round robin entry due on the subject of time. Flipping through a magazine one evening, the phrase "the whirligig of time" from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night caught my eye. If I had looked it up BEFORE doing the spread, I would have done something round as a whirligig is most often defined as a spinning toy or something that continuously whirls. There's even a whirligig quilt pattern. And the moral of the story result of the experiment is, reading first, then art. It works for me! "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better" (Emerson).
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition
Source of the Simplify APC quotation for 4/21/09.Susan Pickering Rothamel: The Encyclopedia of Greeting Card Tools & Techniques
An exhaustive resource, including interviews with career cardmakers, a list of world holidays, quotations and sentiments for priming the creative pumpJulia Cameron: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity [10th Anniversary Edition]
Summer is the time for getting back to basics such as writing morning pages and taking artist dates as popularized in this now classic creativity guide.Julie Morgenstern: When Organizing Isn't Enough: SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life
I'm only on the third chapter and I've cleared BOXES of books from the floor of my office, making space for what's next. Very informative and inspiring with great exercises and examples from her clients. Purchase price includes an online assessment.Cathy A. Malchiodi: The Soul's Palette: Drawing on Art's Transformative Powers
Graham Rawle: Woman's World: A Novel
A funky gluebook-style novel that almost didn't make it past the 50 page mark, but then there was an interesting twist that's got me reading to the end. I bought it for the style, I'm reading it because the story gets interesting after those first few pages.Eric Maisel: The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression
I avoided this book for so long UNTIL I saw Eric Maisel at Artella as part of his virtual book tour. The book accomplished its goal and I'm working on a new research project. Something I haven't done in way too long.
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