Q & A with Daily Creative Practitioners

• How did you figure out what your daily creative practice would be?
• Did you find yourself thinking about or noticing things re your practice throughout the weeks?
• What are your rules?  Have they evolved?
• What helped you keep going?
• What hindered you?  And how did you deal with it?
• Did you write about your practice, take notes, journal?
• Are you documenting your practice?  How?
• What advice would you offer others interested in a creative practice?
• What changes, if any, have you noticed in the quality of life since you’ve started your practice?
• How does your original intention for the workshop compare to where you are now?
• Are you having fun yet?  Do you think you’ll continue?

To De-Construct is To Create Too!

Focus on De-Construction for beginning week 3 of Cultivating a Daily Creative Practice ~

and here's my piece of scrap paper, torn to a square, folded, and punched with a large needle repeatedly to create a geometric pattern of triangles (which harkens back to my chosen universal shape from week 1, done unconsciously of course!).

Hopefully you'll get to see others' results of de-construction soon...

and here's the triangle shape I had selected and expressed in 20 minutes during our first meeting. hmmm

Anagram Art

...from my name!

This one's titled "A Tot Pot"

If you're lucky you'll get to see all the Anagram Art created from our names which we illustrated in the second meeting of the Cultivating a Daily Creative Practice workshop!

Day One in Action

Cultivating a Daily Creative Practice Workshop in Action

The Book of Symbols, Day 1: Egg

Day 1: Egg, collage, 6x6 in., Otto

I decided to create an image expressing each archetypal symbol entry in the ARAS new Book of Symbols that I received in the mail yesterday.  It’s a beautiful book in every way and so inspiring.  So here’s my collage of Day 1: Egg.  To follow my progress, click patottoart.

20 Expressions in 20 Minutes

Just to get things going, the task was to draw each of the 5 universal symbols: a square, a circle, a triangle, a cross, and a spiral, and then chose the one you liked best at this particular moment.  This symbol would be your creative focus for the next 20 minutes or so while you gave it expression in whatever why you could think of.  Here’s our results:

LL created way more than 20 images of the cross symbol, plus bonus points for arranging them all in that shape!

 

EKO selected a spiral to explore out of the 5 universal shapes, and found some, drew others, and created more.

 

  SJD also worked with the spiral and came up with even more renditions of the symbol.

 

PC was drawn to the spiral symbol and brought forth some unique images of it as displayed here.

 

And yes, pao had chosen the spiral for her creative expression as well, and here’s her offering of spiraliousness!