All the words here are part of my creative journey and practice. Some are the activities that became habits. Some annual events that nudge my creative life to the next level. Projects large and small. All part of what I do and who I am, in a word cloud, today’s ICAD prompt.
FYI: there’s a website, wordclouds dot com which will generate a cloud for you based on a website or text you paste or enter. It’s fun.
One thing my father taught me was how to properly hold a knife in the kitchen. He was a professional chef and he passed along a few of his “good” knives to me before he passed away in 2012. When I saw the prompt, “dice”, I thought about his hands and how he showed me how to hold mine when doing that very thing.
Micron pen sketch.
Bippity. Boppity. Boo.
Fairytale, 2021. 😊
Didn’t have time this morning to finish the card. But it conveys my sentiment, so I’ll leave it as is.
A library is the delivery room for the birthplace of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
— Norman Cousins
A library as a cave, books as bats (or butterflies?), each a light, a glow. Books bring forth the light and the library is where that light congregates. This prompt had me swimming in symbolism and I did my best to convey it in watercolor.
The 1973 hit song Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree popped for this prompt.
Watercolor on Micron pen sketch. Song recorded by Tony Orlando and Dawn, written by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown.