BEGIN AGAIN {Creative Practice Invitation}
If you need to re-start your creative practice, like me, join me in this gentle commitment to begin again. Subscribers will receive tips, prompts and encouragements to get going and keep going. More details (and index of posts as they go live) below…
Renew your Creative Practice with a simple Art/Visual Journal approach
You don’t even have to use a bound journal or sketchbook - loose pages, experimentation, and uncertain approaches are welcome. Words - and no-words - count as ‘journaling.’
WHAT: Refresh, renew, begin a no-pressure creative practice just for you
Make a do-able commitment and gift your self a little time/space to: Express, explore, dream, release, and connect to your inner creative side in the midst of whatever time of transition, creation, letting go, or in-between season you find yourself in.
Make marks, glue, paint, draw, write, brainstorm, sketch. Do it all on the same page or surface, or several. Make it ‘artsy’, sketchy, ordered, chaotic, finished, or not - you decide. Your way to approach the page and practice is perfect.
I will be sharing encouragement, tips, prompts and/or musings from my practice, for yours, 1-2 times per week for at least 4 weeks starting the week of 12/9/24. Note: with the holidays, the weeks may not be in perfect succession - let’s go with the flow of this, with grace for all.
There’s an index below ⬇ where the posts will be linked once they go live.
WHEN: You can start today if you like
Here’s how: Commit to 15-20 minutes most days. I like to add a 1 hour weekly date with my visual journal, too. Just put it on your calendar, reminders or planner!
I’m {re}starting my practice the week of December 2 - so you can expect the first post at the Slow Down Art Life the week of Dec. 9, with getting started ideas. I’ll post 1-2 times per week to get us going for 4 weeks.
WHY I’M EXCITED ABOUT THIS:
This has been a go-to practice that has always worked for me through strange times. Sometimes it is a way of marking the days and unfolding story and feelings of life.
PLUS, there is no pressure to make Art, plans, or meaning with this practice. Sometimes those are natural+joyful byproducts, but no need to worry, plan or seek it.
Let your pages become as little or as much as they naturally want to. Loving the page? Go longer with it. Not into it? Stop - turn the page, switch it up, do something different.
You can’t get this wrong… even the ‘off’ or ‘blah’ pages and marks have their place and can show us something about our unique creative process, patterns, experience and desires.
WHO IS THIS FOR: Subscribers, free and paid.
Note: there will be a way to opt out of these specific posts if you’re not interested in this practice - no problem.
PRICE: FREE
All posts, prompts and encouragements related to this little experiment are accessible to free subscribers for 1 week, and to paid subscribers for good. 😘
BEGIN AGAIN Creative Practice Mini-Series
☆☆☆ After the posts go live, I’ll index them here:
