Portrait
When we learn, we try; it doesn’t always work. We don’t need to be perfect. We just need to keep learning.
Dot Day Fun Share
An invitation to have some fun with dots and words!
Dots for Fun
Just draw five dots on your paper
OZ Insights
Click for larger view or view on Flickr In my Instagram feed, one of my favorite doodlers and mentor, Diane Bleck posted her favorite Wizard of Oz character painted in … Continue Reading OZ Insights
Hope in Chaos
Hope in Chaos How sad for us to lose this gift, yet how glad I am for this hopeful quote: This is precisely the time when artists go to … Continue Reading Hope in Chaos
First Days
Would it be helpful to share particular strategies we use to start the year?
Sketches
A feldgang through my sketches
Drawing with Scissors
Instead of a pencil, draw by cutting out people shapes with scissors. #oddbodies Skillshare class by Tom Froese: Odd Bodies
SOL19 Day 30 Simple Things
What are your Saturday simple things?
SOL19 Day 27 One Line
What’s your “One Line” defining poetry?
SOL19 Day 17 A Green Day
St Patrick’s Day: creative ideas
Why I Write
October 20th of every year is The National Day On Writing sponsored by National Council of Teachers of English [NCTE] and The National Writing Project: Every October 20, NCTE celebrates … Continue Reading Why I Write
Tinkering With Voices in Poetry
Tinkering, playing around, experimenting: that’s learning. So when Kevin Hodgson [@dogtrax] read my “On Starting: A Poem for Three Voices,” he suggested recording those three voices in a podcast. Kevin … Continue Reading Tinkering With Voices in Poetry
SOL17 DoodleaDay Sketch50 Haibun
A Message from Robins A Haibun Poem I awoke to a new day announced at first light by a chorus of robins, a celebration of the last #doodleaday, ready for … Continue Reading SOL17 DoodleaDay Sketch50 Haibun
SOL17 DoodleaDay 30 Tools and Spaces
Doodling is writing in images. The flow for each is similar: idea-draft-share-elaborate-revise-share-enhance-edit-publish. And publishing can be private, shared with a few, public on websites, social media, blogs, journals, etc. For me, … Continue Reading SOL17 DoodleaDay 30 Tools and Spaces
SOL17 DoodleaDay Map Story
Writing. If you’re a writer, you know it isn’t easy. If you’re not a writer, you know it’s hard. Donald Murray assured us that “Writing is hard fun.” In our … Continue Reading SOL17 DoodleaDay Map Story
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