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Spotlight on Sarah Madsen

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , , , on June 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Sarah Madsen, Facebook friend of Creative Construction, is a busy mother of four living in Nevada. Sarah is a prolific artist attracted to a range of different media. She finds much satisfaction in drawing from — literally — her vantage point as a mother. From Sarah’s profile on her blog, Arty Moments:
“This [blog] is a [...]

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3/25 Weekly creativity contest winner

Posted in weekly contest, tagged , , , , , , on March 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »

“Spring equinox” seems like a fitting contest prompt, seeing as we’ll be taking a little hiatus from the weekly contest: change and renewal. Beautiful entries this week — enjoy!
Our winner is Rebecca Coll. Rebecca writes: “As soon as saw what the prompt was for this week, I knew exactly what I was going to do… [...]

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Cathy: Art for Life’s Sake

Posted in Cathy, tagged , , , on March 5, 2009 | 9 Comments »

I often feel guilty or self-indulgent knowing that I am not contributing an income to my family. I have never not-contributed an income to my family, in each of its mutable forms throughout the years, for as long a time as now. I have improved my perspective on these feelings in the past six months [...]

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3/04 Weekly creativity contest winner & new prompt

Posted in weekly contest, tagged , , , , on March 4, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Beautiful submissions for this week’s creativity contest on the prompt “light.” Our winner is Cathy Coley, for a haiku image pairing. I love the simplicity of what Cathy did — just showing up and looking into the every day. Congratulations, Cathy — your $10 amazon.com gift certificate is on its way.
 
in the new morning light
quiet [...]

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2/25 Weekly creativity contest winner & new prompt

Posted in weekly contest, tagged , , , , , , on February 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Ah, the eyes have it! Lovely submissions for this week’s creativity contest. Our winner is Elizabeth Beck, for this beautiful collage. Elizabeth writes: “i just finished this collage this week …. and intentionally left out the eyes …. to leave it all more ambiguous and mysterious ….. so … for my eyes entry, i give [...]

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Weekly Contest Addendum

Posted in weekly contest, tagged , on January 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Huge apologies to Karen Winters — I filed her contest entry in the wrong folder, and neglected to post it with the rest of this week’s entries. This also means that Karen wasn’t even “in the running” (though I had acknowledged receipt). I’m so sorry, Karen! This is a casualty of the bird-brain induced by [...]

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Karen: Intro

Posted in Karen, tagged , on September 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I’d like to thank Miranda for welcoming me so warmly to this blog as a co-author.
The topic of fostering creativity is very near and dear to me, and I’ve spent my whole life in some kind of creative profession or pursuit. Art was a first love in my early years, but somehow I got put [...]

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Miranda: What to paint (or write or make) next

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , , on April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I subscribe to the weekly newsletter of Canadian painter Robert Genn. While Genn writes about painting, I often find that his thoughts apply to any creative pursuit, including writing. This week’s newsletter spoke to the dilemma of deciding which project to work on next–something that Christa recently experienced.
Genn’s newsletter is reprinted here in full, by [...]

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Miranda: Show and tell

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , on March 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Some weeks ago, when I mentioned that I dabble in painting as a foil to writing, Bethany (too kind) asked to see some of my work. I’ve posted a few pieces at my Flickr site, just for fun.
It’s easy for me to share my painting, because I am a total amateur and have very little [...]

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