the continuing conversation between art and life
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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjCzPp-MK48 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 …
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"Bread and Circus" - an instrumental piece of music suitable for creative imagining and making
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 …
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So today, Saturday, if you have time to be creative on the weekend - Explanation is the recommended prompt by Sketchbook Skool....
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 …
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. https://vimeo.com/236649997 It seems to be that I'm getting slower and slower to respond to the prompts. I wonder how you are getting on …
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. https://vimeo.com/214331957 I'm kindof cheating here as I didn't make it fresh today, it is one I made earlier. But I've …
This is my late response to the creative prompt "Chain" - a view from the new Edinburgh bridge, Queensferry Crossing. This picture shows 3 Edinburgh bridges across the Forth. I'm being driven across the very new Queensferry Crossing bridge, beyond, you can see the upright of the older road suspension bridge - and in the …
Today's creative prompt is....... CHAIN The thinking behind these creative prompts is explained in this earlier post here.
How do you make an artwork based on inspiration? I grumbled to a friend last night. "It's like trying to make a painting about painting." Inspiration - I think of it as breathing - like respiration is breathing - inspiration is a breathing into, and I see the word spirit in that. And thinking of …
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