Letters About Creativity
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054 / Rock, Chalk and Ink
You share your advice on keeping a daily sketchbook practice and I try to do some simple drawing exercises.
• 3 minute read
053 / Fill Sketchbooks!
My plan for 2020 is to fill as many sketchbooks as I can, starting with filling pages of collage. Plus some advice on keeping a sketchbook.
• 3 minute read
050 / Ink and Card
I’ve just come up with an idea for an exciting project and I want to tell you all about it!
• 2 minute read
049 / A Story About The Universe
I believe that when you move towards your dreams, the universe will move with you. I see evidence of this everywhere.
• 4 minute read
046 / Residency
Artists residencies are a great way to find focus - but you don’t have to wait to be invited to one!
• 2 minute read
045 / Goals vs Systems
A radical rethink of how to achieve your goals, thanks to James Clear’s new book Atomic Habits
• 2 minute read
043 / Hobbies Update
I’m nervous about this letter - I’m letting you see my first attempts at drawing real life models.
• 3 minute read
042 / I'm Still Thinking About These Ideas
A collection of ideas, quotes and provocations which are still lingering in my brain weeks after I saw them.
• 6 minute read
034 / The Ever Moving Mountain
Why artists can never settle on a single idea - creativity wants expansion!
• 2 minute read
033 / As The Electromagnetic Pulse Ripped Through The City, He Saw It Was All For Nothing
When I’m not scared of losing my life’s work, I think about destroying it.
• 3 minute read
032 / Hobbies
How I have denied myself a hobby for most of my life - until this summer.
• 4 minute read
029 / The Time Orson Welles Met Hitler
Some must-watch interviews from a golden age of television.
• 4 minute read
028 / On The Thermodynamics of Creativity
An important message for artists - your work will not exist by itself!
• 3 minute read
024 / The Sacred Stage
Are you feeling creatively blocked? You might be thinking about your ideas all wrong.
• 4 minute read