Well, October was not blogging month around here!
I MISSED you!
So much has happened since last we spoke, that it would take a whole lifetime just to list it, let alone talk about it.
You know how I don’t care for the reciting of TO-DO lists, especially the ones with capitol letters, so I won’t be doing that here. I’ll be sharing some of the more interesting stuff as it becomes relevant, because I will be blogging a LOT more, but I won’t make you sit and listen today.
But one thing does stand out from this past month . . .
I figured out what I want to be when I grow up!
I want to be an artist.
Duh! You say.
But, truthfully, I don’t get to *BE* an artist that much. I am much too busy BEing a crazy person instead.
As you know, I have a gallery. Therefore, I have a destination for anything I create. Truth is that Mark and I will not do this again, so this is it, and I must take advantage of the opportunity and make art! If not now, then when?
So, everything I do must dovetail into that.
Lucky for us all, I love to keep an art journal, and so it makes sense that I journal the details of my ideas, endeavors, and adventures in my art making. Right?
And I have been doing that.
And I put the first completed journal into a PDF Workbook.
And I just published it – for your creating pleasure.
One of the things that went on during October is that I ran out of gas – me, not my car. Since our Borders is closed, I drove all the way to Albuquerque to go to Barnes and Noble, have some coffee and look for inspiring art books and magazines to buy.
If you would have told me 10 years ago, that almost all VARIETY would pretty much disappear from art books and magazines, I would never have believed you. I could see where that could happen in some fields of publishing, but surely not CREATIVE publishing!
I came home empty handed. But I have hopes for my own personal inspiration via blogs, Pinterest, etc.
For you – I can give you something exciting and inspiring in a workbook!
It’s really more of a “Playbook”, but that sounds like football. And it’s not about football.
It’s not a magazine. By their nature, they must move briefly through subject matter and be full of advertising.
It’s not a book because it’s not about a single subject.
So, I decided to call it a workbook’guidebook.
Creativity Knocking is just what it says. It’s a VARIETY of creative ideas, idea starters, and idea finishers. It should give you lots to think and do, and hopefully, start you down some paths that I haven’t even thought of yet.
I love it and I am not going to put a schedule on it so I can continue loving it. It is a part of the “art” I am making, and part of the “art” I have made. It is fun. It is inspiring.
And I hope you love it because I want to do many more volumes.
Without further ado, here it is . . .
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