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The world—especially here in the U.S.—is in a bit of turmoil right now. No matter which side you’re on politically, there’s a lot of tension everywhere you look. That’s why [...]

This week I’m participating in something called the Insta180 7-Day Instagram Challenge, headed by renowned wedding photographer, Jasmine Star. Each day I receive a prompt about what to post [...]

Following up February's #28toMake daily series of creative prompts (which I blogged about here), CreativeLIVE is back with #30DaysofGenius for the month of May. This one is a little less [...]

In late 2015 I decided to adopt a new game plan for my creative life. It involved a strict morning routine, saying “yes” a lot, and making something everyday. Through the end of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Until today, these #28toMake exercises have been solitary things, and I think I did OK. Today, though, we were asked to create [...]

Just over one month into “Twenty Fixteen,” I thought I’d reflect on my progress. I didn’t consciously set out to change my life this year, but early on I can tell [...]

Gesture drawings are always fun. I remember doing them back in art school and really enjoying the ordered chaos of what I saw when I eventually looked down at my paper. And today on

Today the prompt from Ryan Putnam was to scribble. That's easy enough, right? Just get a couple of markers and go nuts? But it didn't end there. I think the goal [...]

Today marked a new week of prompts from CreativeLive. Week One was “celebrating everyday objects through drawing,” and this week is all about line form and texture with Ryan Putnam. [...]

Today’s prompt might be the easiest for many people, but I think I find it to be the hardest one so far. It was: do nothing. I find that to be pretty difficult because I always want to be [...]

I was wondering what might happen during the weekends throughout February and the #28toMake campaign. After five days of really fun drawing prompts, it looks like Saturdays and Sundays might be a [...]

Today is the last day of prompts from illustrator, Kate Bingaman-Burt, and it turned out to be a very helpful, very tricky doozy. We were asked to draw a receipt. This sounds simple—and maybe it [...]

Today's #28toMake prompt from CreativeLive was a fun one, and a bit more complex than previous ones. Rather than drawing a single item, we were asked to [...]

Today, Kate Bingaman-Burt's #28toMake prompt was to draw one of your favorite album covers. This is a fun one. I have so many albums that are favorites, [...]

Today's prompt in the CreativeLive 28 to Make month-long creative challenge was to draw a [...]

The key to getting better at something is doing as much of it as you can. Here, Ira Glass expands on that a bit in some sage advice for anybody who is creative. (I think the central point of it [...]

  I’ve had this draft sitting on my site for over a month now, but I think it’s important to finish and put out. I’ve reflected quite a bit on the past year, but never [...]