This is a time-lapse film of flowers opening: many of them are lilies or orchids, so the colours and patterns and shapes are stunning. video by David de los Santos Gil For variation, mute the music they are presented with, and try varieties of music in your audio library. How does it feel with ballet music? What is the effect when it’s jazz? Or … Continue reading Promise becomes reality: flowers unfurl
“Bread and Circus” – an instrumental piece of music suitable for creative imagining and making Continue reading Creative prompt: music to image
Poetry can inspire by acknowledging a person, telling their story, celebrating their life’s witness. I just came across a poem by Luci Shaw, which tells us another poet/person’s story, their persistence through harsh circumstances. Encouraging. Luci’s poem begins with her introduction to Irina, in italics. Irina Ratushinskaya —Russian poet and physicist who was sentenced to seven years in a Soviet labor camp for writing about … Continue reading Poetry of Resilience – Irina Ratushinskaya
So today, Saturday, if you have time to be creative on the weekend – Explanation is the recommended prompt by Sketchbook Skool…. Continue reading Today’s Creative Prompt: Explanation
If you are following the daily creative prompts by Sketchbook Skool (put on the top of my blog page), read today’s, “Antsy” and began to fret, wondering what it was – if you felt very nervous, worried or unpleasantly excited by not knowing its meaning – well, that IS the definition of antsy. It’s a North American word, so not all our readers will be … Continue reading Antsy – eh?
Here is my doodle animation inspired by the word “Workout.” Don’t blink or you’ll miss it; don’t turn up the sound, it’s silent. It’s very brief and simply made on mobile phone. It seems to be that I’m getting slower and slower to respond to the prompts. I wonder how you are getting on with them, if they are interesting or genuinely make you want … Continue reading Response to “Workout” prompt
Responding to today’s creative prompt: dark. A homemade video in response to an everyday activity and the electrifying experience of reading W H Auden’s “Refugee Blues” poem and finding it shockingly up-to-date 70 years later. I’m kindof cheating here as I didn’t make it fresh today, it is one I made earlier. But I’ve got a virus today (sound of violin playing). If I had … Continue reading Response to Creative Prompt: Dark
