Creative explorations: Vol #2
Fun art challenges, a bunch of interesting articles, and a tutorial on using washi tape in your art journals.
For this month’s edition of curated art and creativity resources, I’ve rounded up a couple of fun art challenges and some interesting articles for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
Play: Art Challenges
The wildly popular fodder challenge, hosted by Willa Wanders and Tiffany Sharpe, may have just finished, but you can still access all of the lessons for free until 4 August.
TIP: If you’re short on time, try watching the lessons and taking some notes on the supplies and process, so you can try them out later!
You can sign up for the Fodder Challenge here.
Seek, Gather, Create is a super fun mixed media scavenger hunt hosted by Tina Hois, Lisa Goddard and Melanie Theriault on Instagram. The hosts share four things to seek, gather and create something with every week through the month of August. You can follow them on Instagram and create along!
The scavenger hunt starts on 6 August.
Learn: Interesting articles
The Artist’s Mind: Virtual Blog Tour
by Kathryn Vercillo of Create Me Free
Back in the glory days of blogging, blog tours were all the rage. They’re having a moment again, thanks to Substack, and I couldn’t be more thrilled! Especially for this virtual tour of Kathryn Vercillo’s newest book, The Artist’s Mind: The Creative Lives and Mental Health of Famous Artists: a historical survey of famous artists that explores the intersections of mental health and creativity. You can look forward to a whole month of author interviews, book reviews, behind-the-scenes stuff, excerpts from the book, guest posts by Kathryn and more. Just bookmark the virtual tour page and check-in through the month!
8 Pieces of Advice for Struggling Young Musicians (or Other Creative People)
by Ted Gioia of The Honest Broker
There’s some excellent advice here for following your own creativity, not letting gatekeepers control your sense of purpose and self-worth, kicking your fears to the curb and more.
by Amy Shearn of How To Get Unstuck
Though this article is focused on writers, I think it applies to almost any creative project. If you often find yourself stuck, wondering what to create, and why you should even be creating, this may be just the advice you need!
Share a favorite article you’ve read recently, or a Substack that you’re loving!
Watch: Art video
Join me at the art table as I show you how to incorporate washi tape in your art journal, to make a beautiful, complex, and layered art journal spread. I created this piece in response to a prompt on a previous edition of Seek, Gather, Create.
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Thank you for sharing these resources! The seek, gather, create challenge goes perfectly with the theme of “Play” we’re exploring at Heartbeats in August and I’m excited to share it over there too!
Thanks for sharing 🦋🦋🦋