http://catbennett.net Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:59:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week I worked on some cards based on The Mahatma Gandhi Hat Company paintings I did last year. One day I was thinking about peace as we all do sometimes and I wondered what would happen if we all wore the kind of hat Mahatma Gandhi once wore. Would ... http://catbennett.net/2010/08/22/the-mahatma-gandhi-hat-company-2/ Just back from a week in beautiful Bar Harbor, Maine where we spent our days getting lost in the woods and our evenings sitting with a glass of wine and staring up at the stars. Feeling so much more relaxed and very happy to be back in the studio! When we ... http://catbennett.net/2010/08/11/more-on-london-creativity-retreat/ A couple of weeks ago, through the magic of Twitter, I met writer and pr consultant, James Allen, who has an interesting company called Brewhouse Group in London. On his blog, he's created a forum on the subject of creativity and invited artists and writers to contribute. He's also posted ... http://catbennett.net/2010/07/31/creativity-forum/ In Part One we looked at how to get a drawing club up and running— finding a space, setting a time, inviting a few folks over, committing to weekly meetings and getting the necessary supplies. Next, we need to consider what we'll do each week. First, if you're leading the group ... http://catbennett.net/2010/07/28/how-to-start-a-drawing-club-part-two/ Hi! This has been a hugely busy time for me so very sorry for being an erratic correspondent. I like being busy and I'm so grateful to have the deep sense of purpose I now have. I was just speaking to Dear A about that tonight. We always eat ... http://catbennett.net/2010/07/28/keeping-focus/ My book, The Confident Creative / How to Free the Hand and Mind, was inspired by the drawing class I teach on Saturday mornings. I love, love, love my class and it has turned into a club really—a bunch of great people who get together every Saturday morning to draw ... http://catbennett.net/2010/07/17/how-to-start-a-drawing-club/ Well, it's only taken a year for us to get around to seeing this and, hey, it was more than worth the wait! In our favor, there was a long queue on Netflix—we did order it ages ago. Not in our favor—think of all those months in which we didn't ... http://catbennett.net/2010/07/10/pirate-radio-rocks/ Hey, there! Yes, I've been away—off in England to see a friend and make arrangements for the creativity retreat I'm doing in Covent Garden in London on the weekend of September 25th and 26th.  I spent a great afternoon in Covent Garden with Sue Blake, pr person extraordinaire, who is ... http://catbennett.net/2010/06/26/listen-up/ Yes, this is Mahatma Gandhi! My friend, Maggie Stern, made him from clumps of felted wool. I don't know how she did this except to say that I have seen her poke clumps of wool with a needle. Maggie is in our Saturday Morning Drawing Club in which we draw ... http://catbennett.net/2010/05/25/mahatma-gandhi-art/ This book, Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) arrived this week. It's the catalogue for Maira Kalman's traveling exhibition now at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania and coming next spring to New York.  I love her work—the acute observation, the sublime affect, the notice that ... http://catbennett.net/2010/05/19/a-book-an-artist-a-path/