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Making Do and Making Art
Making Do and Making Art

What are your barriers to creativity? What keeps you from making or doing on a regular basis? A lack of:

  • time?

  • space?

  • money?

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creativity, fabric, life, studio, sketchbooks, artAnne Buteracreativity, making do, making art, making time for rest, creative restraints, barriers to creativity, creative challenges, rethinking creative constraints, solutions to lack of time, solutions to lack of space, making time for creativity, creative space, studio, art practice, inspiration, being inspired, feeling uninspired, overcoming fear, overcoming lack of creativity, how to overcome your fear, sewing, fabric design, painting, sketchbooks, working in a sketchbook Comments
Allowing The Change (And New Calendars)
Allowing The Change (And New Calendars)

I’ve been thinking a lot about change lately. In part with the changing of the seasons as I wrote last week, but also because change seems to be all around.

Isn’t it always?

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garden, inspiration, sketchbooks, calendars, artAnne Buterachange, changing season, life changes, allow the change, allowing change, embracing change, being open to change, 2019 Calendars, 2019 Desk Calendars, 2019 Botanical Watercolor Calendars, autumn in the garden, Flora Bowley, Amy Butler, Thank You Amy Butler, Thanks Amy, process, letting go Comments
Why Trying New Things and Even Making Mistakes is Good for Your Creativity
Why Trying New Things and Even Making Mistakes is Good for Your Creativity

When you're learning how to do something or if you're building up a business, it's important to focus your energy in one direction.

When I first started teaching myself to paint I didn't do that.

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creativity, inspiration, sketchbooks, studio, artAnne Buterapainting, watercolor, crochet, sewing, experiments, creativity, inspiration, UPPERCASE Magazine, Botanica: A Mixed Bouquet of Art, creative business, play, fun, making mistakes, trying new things, creativebug, sketchbooks, focus Comments
Sketchbooks, Fear and Letting Go
Sketchbooks, Fear and Letting Go

Do you keep a sketchbook? Right now I have nine sketchbooks on the go, which might be a bit overkill.

But each book has a different purpose. They're different sizes and different types of paper. One of them is nearly filled and two I recently started for very specific projects -- one dedicated to color and the other as a garden journal.

I think one of the reasons I have so many different sketchbooks is that I've been chasing the myth of the Perfect Sketchbook.

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creativity, sketchbooksAnne Buterasketchbooks, creativity, drawing, process, art, play, ebb and flow, inspiration, overcoming fear, working in a sketchbook, letting go, encouragement, messages from the universe, quotes Comments