writing

5 Questions for Makers

by rosedeniz July 3, 2011 art
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Being creative means being savvy, trusting the hands that draw you to create in the first place. You’ll dig deep when you need to. Make something out of nothing, though you never for one second believed it didn’t exist. It already existed in your mind before you ever made it.

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The Bird Sisters: a conversation with Rebecca Rasmussen on writing, running, mothering, and Wisconsin

by rosedeniz June 1, 2011 Art is Dialogue
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An Art is Dialogue conversation with author Rebecca Rasmussen on writing, mothering, running, and her fascination with place.

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The Healthy Artist & Writer’s Contract

by rosedeniz May 12, 2011 art
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A highly personal, totally individual, agreement for guilt-and-stress-free creativity.

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Is creativity healing?

by rosedeniz March 14, 2011 art
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It’s volatile out there. Eruptions, creative blocks, pain stories. Impasses and detours. Bloggers only as good as their last post. Artists only remembered by their latest body of work. Writers after a successful debut who get a bad case of second-book syndrome. Can creativity heal in the face of disaster?

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With love, and heaven

by rosedeniz March 4, 2011 creativity
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Poets and writers and artists all love to cross-pollinate. Jorie Graham paints to fuel her poetry.The poet Mark McGuinness is best known as a creativity coach and voice behind Lateral Action. This poem, Cennet/Heaven is in honor of my grandmother and Midwestern foodstuffs.

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How art concepts apply to writing

by rosedeniz December 16, 2010 art
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Tweet I remember piling into my intro art and design classes with other sleepy-eyed freshmen to learn how to draw, paint, and critique. We were taught how to see and to talk about a piece objectively, not just what we liked or disliked. We talked about craft and attention to detail. When it came to subjectivity, we […]

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Hello, Creative Block!

by rosedeniz December 1, 2010 creativity
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Tweet It started off innocently enough. A day or two of procrastination. Then stuff came up. And then more stuff. And then someone asked me about my book, and all of a sudden, I felt like a writer-impersonator. It happens that fast, I marveled. While the writer world tapped to the NaNoWriMo beat this past […]

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Essential words & Quiet drawings

by rosedeniz November 12, 2010 art
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Tweet Paintings take up wall and storage space. Image files, as I discovered this week haunting my backup files, take up vast amounts of virtual space. Years of making paintings, illustrations, and drawings, and I have thousands of images stored.  Originals. Duplicates. Different scales and formats. I’m aware of the outpouring of images I have to share vs. […]

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Learning curve

by rosedeniz November 5, 2010 creativity
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Tweet Several times a year I take on projects that are more than I can handle. I make sure that they are outside of my area of expertise, and keep me up late at night problem solving. Like writing a book in August and revising it while redoing my website and this blog at the same time. My […]

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