The Nautilus Award!

May 5, 2011

Very happy to announce that The Confident Creative is a gold medal winner in the 2011 Nautilus Book Awards! Here’s a little something about the awards— “The Nautilus Awards recognizes Books and Audio Books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living & positive social change,  while at the same time they stimulate the “imagination” and offer the [...]

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Drawing Upside-Down

February 11, 2011

In the last Saturday morning drawing class we all drew upside down on paper five feet tall. We used Picasso’s line drawing of Stravinsky. You can see it here on top. If it isn’t too sacrilegious, I’d say we may have improved on the master His was already full of ease-full, expressive distortions and we [...]

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Art in the World

November 3, 2010

Another way to take our art into the world—we can now pop it onto a t-shirt! Thanks to Sharon Kurlansky at Laughing Stock illustration site for turning me onto this. Maybe we’ll turn a few heads in our t-shirts and start some conversations. I’m always thinking about new ways we can bring art into the [...]

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Sketchbook

October 24, 2010

The Saturday Morning Drawing Club is in full swing and everyone now has a little black sketchbook to fill. We went around the art center and drew things that spoke to us. It’s always good to slow down and look carefully. Our drawings really took off when we started to do blind contour drawings—looking only [...]

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The London Workshop

October 5, 2010

Back in rainy Boston after a great time in rainy London! We held the 2-day creativity retreat in Covent Garden and such wonderful people came. Some were artists who had gotten away from art-making due to the pressures of career and life, some were just beginning, others were practicing artists, architects and writers. We even [...]

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Mind the Gap: London

September 22, 2010

Tomorrow morning, very, very early, I leave for London to do the drawing/creativity workshop that was hatched a few months ago and is now here!  On Saturday and Sunday, we’ll all gather together to talk, draw and explore the creative process. It’s so easy for us to become detached from our creative selves. All those [...]

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The Visual Journey

September 13, 2010

I‘m doing a visual autobiography and  finding images of things that have influenced or inspired me on my creative journey. My first great love was comic books! That graphic style has stuck with me too. Next, for a nano-second, came Winston Churchil’sl paintins. They were in the  first real exhibition of paintings I ever saw [...]

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The Mahatma Gandhi Hat Company

August 22, 2010

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 we keep peace on the [...]

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Creativity Forum

July 31, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, through the magic of Twitter, I met business creativity 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 some great links to other sites [...]

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How To Start A Drawing Club Part Two

July 28, 2010

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 you need to decide. [...]

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