With January having been one of my best ever as far as creativity and living with intent, the folks at CreativeLive decided to keep that record rolling through February for me by launching #28toMake, a daily prompt to create the habit of making something everyday.… Read More >>
#28toMake, Days 23–28
This last week was the home stretch with #28toMake. There were some great assignments, but I, sadly, didn’t do them. I’ve spent the past week mostly in bed or on the couch battling the flu and a temperature that exceeded 100º.… Read More >>
#28toMake, Day 22
I liked this day’s prompt quite a bit because it involved photography. We were asked by new CreativeLive prompter, Erik Marinovich, to take a picture of something shiny that we see everyday. I chose the doorknob on our kitchen door because it’s probably the first shiny thing I notice everyday, and its significance is great: When I turn this knob every morning I’m heading outside and connecting with the world.… Read More >>
#28toMake, Day 19
I’m catching up a bit here. I’ve been doing the #28toMake prompts, but haven’t had a chance to document them all like I had been earlier in the month. I was out of town for the three-day Presidents Day weekend, and have been catching up ever since—until I was hit with a 102° fever two days ago.… Read More >>
#28toMake, Day 18
Today’s #28toMake was really interesting. The assignment was to take four sounds—a jackhammer, children playing, waves, and paper crumpling—and visualize them. It was pretty tricky and I don’t know that I got it right. It’s tough, after all, to see a sound in your head.… Read More >>
#28toMake, Day 17
Before today I’d heard of tangrams, but never played with one. Turns out they’re a lot of fun.
Coming up with some interesting tangram combinations was today’s #28toMake prompt from Lara McCormick. I didn’t necessarily make sense of anything that put together in a Gestalt sense.… Read More >>
#28toMake, Day 16
Another fun prompt today: Blackout Poems. This is where you black out the words in a newspaper, magazine, or any printed article, and leave only a few visible to read like a poem. It’s great. And in a cool coincidence, when I Googled the term to find a good link to use above, the first result was blackout poetry from Austin Kleon, whose book, Show Your Work, I’m reading right now and it’s full of these kinds of poems throughout.… Read More >>
#28toMake, Days 13, 14, and 15
I spent a long weekend away in Connecticut. But I did manage to do the the #28toMake exercises, which were the same as last weekend—days 6 and 7. The first was the People Mad Lib, and the second was to do nothing.… Read More >>
#28tomake, Day 12
Until today, these #28toMake exercises have been solitary things, and I think I did OK. Today, though, we were asked to create an Exquisite Corpse with other contributors and it didn’t go as well.
If you’re not familiar with the Exquisite Corpse, it’s a collaborative exercise where you fold a paper into sections, one under another so nothing except a single panel is visible.… Read More >>
#28toMake, Day 11
Today on #28toMake, we got to draw doodles on photographs. When I saw the examples Ryan Putnam showed in the video, I immediately thought of the work of KAWS, who does some pretty prominent photo doodles like this one.… Read More >>