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.


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.


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!


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.


046 / Residency

Artists residencies are a great way to find focus - but you don’t have to wait to be invited to one!


045 / Goals vs Systems

A radical rethink of how to achieve your goals, thanks to James Clear’s new book Atomic Habits


043 / Hobbies Update

I’m nervous about this letter - I’m letting you see my first attempts at drawing real life models.


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.


034 / The Ever Moving Mountain

Why artists can never settle on a single idea - creativity wants expansion!


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.


032 / Hobbies

How I have denied myself a hobby for most of my life - until this summer.


029 / The Time Orson Welles Met Hitler

Some must-watch interviews from a golden age of television.


028 / On The Thermodynamics of Creativity

An important message for artists - your work will not exist by itself!


024 / The Sacred Stage

Are you feeling creatively blocked? You might be thinking about your ideas all wrong.


020 / You're Weird

Exceed algorithmic description - make art the computer cannot categorise!