Not-So-Idle Hands
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 […]
Tag Archives: Drawing
Make Something: Melt
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.
Make Something: Timed Drawing
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 […]
Make Something: Passing Through
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 […]
Make Something: Self
“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 […]
Tractor: Simple Shapes Convey Complex Ideas
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 […]
Beth Nyland 