morning pages
Well, I did morning pages longhand today, in a big bound red clothcovered journal that my adopted daughter's mom gave me, a sort of out of season holidays/birthday present. It's cool. Good for it. Big -- I'm garrulous. Hardbound -- I'm hard on notebooks. Lined paper without too much space between the lines.
I used a Pigma Micron pen size 05, wanted the legibility of a fairly thick line. I found my best fountain-pen but did not waste time cleaning the pen before doing the morning pages. I'll clean it today so I have it around for tomorrow. The cool thing about this is that this is actually an excuse to clean out and use my cool fountain pen. I love fountain pens, but don't use them much even though I have a collection of three or four. Why? Because I'm always on the computer.
But using it for this is cool and when this journal's full, I'll flip it over and use the backs of the pages.
I declare for myself that sketches are okay in it if they happen or are needed to illuminate a story. Something like a field journal of the brain. Who's grading this thing?
I wound up retelling my childhood including parts of it I'm not sharing here, in the voice of Christopher Titus, comedian who did "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding." Catch his show on Comedy Central or YouTube. Here's the link to part one on YouTube: Christopher Titus.
He has a great motto. "Share your pain. But tell it like a joke." This really worked in today's morning pages.
I meant to post this to TheArtistsWay08 but somehow it wound up in this blog instead. Errata: should be ArtistsWay08 without "the" in it. OOOPS! Okay, I copied my entry and will repost it, but the context is that I just got The Artist's Way yesterday, and one of the exercises in this twelve week creativity program is to write "morning pages" -- three pages of longhand freewriting every morning. This could be very cool. The other one is to have a weekly "artist date" (finally know why myartistdate is called that!) with yourself, do something for your creativity. I think my Blick shopping and eBay shopping tends to be that. (Looks around at all those sets of colored pencils... yeah, my artist child side gets a LOT of cool toys and time to play with them). I think what I'll do for it besides buying treats is once a week do an artist date that's just... doing one of my cool artworks, ACEO or not, for me, for my own collection. Do one in a bound sketchbook or something where I'm not tempted to pull it out and sell it. That's a cool thing.
I used a Pigma Micron pen size 05, wanted the legibility of a fairly thick line. I found my best fountain-pen but did not waste time cleaning the pen before doing the morning pages. I'll clean it today so I have it around for tomorrow. The cool thing about this is that this is actually an excuse to clean out and use my cool fountain pen. I love fountain pens, but don't use them much even though I have a collection of three or four. Why? Because I'm always on the computer.
But using it for this is cool and when this journal's full, I'll flip it over and use the backs of the pages.
I declare for myself that sketches are okay in it if they happen or are needed to illuminate a story. Something like a field journal of the brain. Who's grading this thing?
I wound up retelling my childhood including parts of it I'm not sharing here, in the voice of Christopher Titus, comedian who did "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding." Catch his show on Comedy Central or YouTube. Here's the link to part one on YouTube: Christopher Titus.
He has a great motto. "Share your pain. But tell it like a joke." This really worked in today's morning pages.
I meant to post this to TheArtistsWay08 but somehow it wound up in this blog instead. Errata: should be ArtistsWay08 without "the" in it. OOOPS! Okay, I copied my entry and will repost it, but the context is that I just got The Artist's Way yesterday, and one of the exercises in this twelve week creativity program is to write "morning pages" -- three pages of longhand freewriting every morning. This could be very cool. The other one is to have a weekly "artist date" (finally know why myartistdate is called that!) with yourself, do something for your creativity. I think my Blick shopping and eBay shopping tends to be that. (Looks around at all those sets of colored pencils... yeah, my artist child side gets a LOT of cool toys and time to play with them). I think what I'll do for it besides buying treats is once a week do an artist date that's just... doing one of my cool artworks, ACEO or not, for me, for my own collection. Do one in a bound sketchbook or something where I'm not tempted to pull it out and sell it. That's a cool thing.