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Just Imagine: Exploring Graphic Markmaking in Sketchbooks


Lisa Cyr

Sketchbooks provide an opportunity for artists to explore alternative mark making. There are creative painting instruments that have been introduced into my artistic process that I would have never thought of or use if it was not for my daily sketchbook practice. In the sketchbook, I am free to play and explore without limits or boundaries. One of the things that I love to do in my sketchbooks is create engaging backgrounds that utilize tools…

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YESTERDAY’S POST


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Motivation


Chris Beatrice

March 21, 2023 - The other day a friend asked me to talk about "...the creative practice, staying motivated, psychological roadblocks." This is such a great topic because like so much of artmaking, what's staring us right in the face can often be ignored out of habit, because the truth sounds crazy. But we're artists, dang it! We need to be honest about ourselves, about life and about what the creative process is, no matter how it sounds. WHO MOTIVATES WHOM? On the one hand we instinctively talk about motivation as if it is some alien force over which we have no control, something that is not really "us" so to speak. On the other hand, we know it must come entirely from within us. Both are true.  Because, one more time: what you normally experience as “you” (or…

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