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Tag Archives: Drawing

Not-So-Idle Hands

July 22, 2014by bethnyland Leave a comment

My hands are seldom idle. For eight or nine hours each work day, they are busy at the keyboard, tapping out business writing for clients of Spencer Grace. After hours, these […]

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Being Creative

Make Something: Melt

March 20, 2014by bethnyland Leave a comment

A little simple sketching helped me slow down and melt away the tension and energy it took to manage a full day of teaching and writing and parenting. Good idea.

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Timed Drawing

January 12, 2014by bethnyland Leave a comment

Today Noah Scalin challenged me to draw for 30 minutes straight. Maybe now I understand a bit better how my business writing students feel when I subject them to timed […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Passing Through

September 1, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

Day 124: Make something seem like it is passing through a wall or other solid material that it normally wouldn’t or couldn’t. Conceptually, I knew exactly what I wanted to […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Self

July 3, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

“Incorporate yourself into whatever you make.” Don’t I do that every time? Creating, to me, is intensely personal. I pour a bit of myself into everything I make—whether it’s a […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Tractor: Simple Shapes Convey Complex Ideas

June 29, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

Daddy taught all of us to draw a tractor. We drew tractors every Sunday in church, sitting beside him or on his lap. So when our Sibling Discovery Project turned up […]

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Being Creative, Sibling Discovery

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