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Oct.31.2011 Sketchbook Journal I went on a short holiday with my daughter and discovered Danny Gregory at the bookstore. I actually saw his book “Everyday Matters” sometime back but I hesitated to make the purchase then. I felt a calling this time around and headed straight for the graphic arts section looking for his book...	Apr.25.2010 Journal Sketching Workshop – It’s a Wrap Like art, life is a series of shapes, of lights and darks intermingling. If we keep squinting, keep looking, those shapes begin to form before our eyes, into our sketchbooks, into our minds. Today was the last day of our four-day journal-sketching workshop. Our last sketch spot was a shopping...
Jan.21.2010 Creative Stretching Movies and books and sleeping, mostly sleeping, have been the shape of my days for a few days now, as happens infrequently when my back decides to go on a slide slip and leaves me with an acute awareness of how things work and don't work -- mostly don't work. I've been out of it for five days due...	Aug.30.2008 The Creative Spark Where does it come from, and how do we call upon it, nurture it and sustain it? Having taught art and writing for many years, I've come to the conclusion that once we call it forth, it feeds on itself, like a hurricane over open water. The trick is coaxing it our of hiding in the first place, and...