Creative Doodling Down Memory Lane February-28-2009
File in the "I Drew Knew It!" Folder
I'm a doodler. Always been a doodler, always will be a doodler. Legendary school doodler (remember my Illustrated Man story?), on the phone doodler, during work meeting doodler, even right now as I type this blog post, I'm doodling! ...
Weekly Cup-O-Slush from Creativity-Portal.com
February 16-22, 2009
Author Hank Kellner invited me to design a 1/2 page promotional flyer handout for Creativity Portal for an upcoming teacher's conference he's attending. It's generous of him to include us among other writing resources he'll be promoting there, and we appreciate it very much. And since it's available, If you likewise wish to advertise Creativity-Portal.com to others or are part of its Author Series feature, please feel free to download and print the flyer here. It's great for your portfolio and prints 2-up on a standard sheet of paper.
Meanwhile don't miss this new creative inspiration:
- Shelley Klammer shares another beautiful perspective on creative essence and dives in to the state of spontaneous creativity in her latest piece (with another beautiful illustration), Creative Essence.
- Carol Parks spent 50 years in the music industry before beginning her career in the arts. Her father was a big band leader who worked with musicians like Nat King Cole and Peggy Lee. Now Carol follows her artistic passion and publishes a 'Zine called Art Freak. Don't miss this exclusive Creative Careers Interview with Carol Parks by Molly Anderson-Childers.
More Quoteworthy Snippets from Carol Parks:
"If you are doing what you love, you have the coping skills to take anything life can throw at you. If you’re not, any little straw can break your back."
"People think art is a luxury, but it’s not. It’s right up there with food and water, to pick up a pen and make your mark."
"If you are impassioned by your work and you want to do your work, you will find a way to do it — that’s the bottom line. Anything else is a lie."
On Keri Smith's "Wreck This Journal" February-23-2009
No, REALLY Wreck It!
Raise your hand if you're timid about marking up your books. I am. Well, occasionally I'll get bold and highlight some lines or a key paragraph, but I'm not a notes-in-the-margin kind of gal...
Weekly Cup-O-Slush from Creativity-Portal.com
February 9-15, 2009
There's so much creative collaboration happening at Creativity Portal right now that I'm falling behind blogging about it! To put some of my Kaizen-Muse creativity coaching tools to good use (such as doing big things in small steps), I'm going to begin a weekly posting summary here of published features that will truly inspire your creativity. Just click on over to experience them in full. We'll start with last week (Feb 9):
- Photographer and writer Kristi Tencarre schools us on military Meal-Ready-to-Eat packaging, island rocks, and Phi Phi Island in her new visually stunning set of Thailand Photo Writing Prompts.
New Interview: People of the Rock River Valley
February-18-2009
Chris Dunmire: A Multi-tasking Creativity Coach
In December I was pleasantly surprised by an unexpected interview request from Elizabeth Davies, a freelance columnist for the Rockford Register Star who wanted to talk to me about my work as a creativity coach. ...
Chocolate Creativity Addiction February-16-2009
Shelley Klammer on Creative Over-Indulgence
The passing of Valentine's Day this weekend has me wondering how many extra tons of chocolate are consumed around the sweet nothings and permissiveness of this loving holiday. I have not craved chocolate over the past year as much as I have this past week. ...
“The lines we draw are representative of the thoughts we think.”
— Jeff Scarterfield, Tips to Improve Your Drawing
Live Jennie Nash Book Club Event (Feb. 24) February-9-2009
Free Call-In Event • Registration Required
I mentioned in Creativity Portal's February 5 NewZine that we're co-sponsoring a huge Jennie 'Nash-Bash' party right now in celebration of the author's new book "The Only True Genius in the Family."
The party officially kicked off this month with Molly Anderson-Childers' Multicultural Muses column The Story as Muse and with the colorful & fun permission-granting Creative License gift printable for you.
Next, we announced the exciting ' My Own True Genius' essay writing contest for US residents — to be judged by the author herself! (Submission deadline: March 15, 2009.) A HUGE Grand Prize with autographed books, chocolates, an art journal, and art-supplies gift card awaits its lucky winner.
But wait, there's more! Later this month (February 24) Jennie and Molly will be co-hosting a free Live Book Club Event at 7:30 PM MST. Join in on the conversations to chat with the author about her new book, the writing life, creativity, muses, and inspirations. Hear ya there! •
"My own advice is to read a little bit of everything — literary promiscuity is your watchword."
— Molly Anderson-Childers, Story as Muse
Print Your Own Creative License! February-3-2009
'My Own True Genius' Contest Free Novelty License
In celebration of Jennie Nash's 'My Own True Genius' essay writing contest, a creative collaboration between this author, writer/artist Molly Anderson-Childers, and designer Chris Dunmire (myself) has produced this one-of-a-kind Creative License for you to print right now to hang in your creative space for endless inspiration and permission to be creative!
If you'd like a personalized Creative License, you'll have to enter the Jennie Nash 'My Own True Genius' essay writing contest at Creativity Portal! ...
The Jennie Nash 'My Own True Genius' Essay Contest!
February-3-2009
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2009
Attention, scribblers and bibliophiles! Creativity-Portal.com is sponsoring an essay contest in honor of Jennie Nash's new book, The Only True Genius in the Family, judged by the author herself! ...
Special Groundhog Day Interview with Author Jill Badonsky
February-2-2009
Official Awe-Manac Blog Tour Stop
Greetings, blog tour-ees! Emerging from a hole in the ethersphere in the, er, shadow of the annual Punxsutawney, PA, tradition known as Groundhog Day, is an illumination on the subject of weather-forecasting critters and the shadows they keep. In just a moment you'll witness an unbelievable conversation between myself and Jill Badonsky, author of "The Awe-Manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder." ...
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