People ask us all the time how we travel so much. Want to know our secret? Most of our travels and outdoor adventures aren’t far. In fact, many of them are in our own backyard or within a 2-3 hour… Read More ›
Month: July 2020
Travel Inside Artwork
Before lockdown I used to take my writing groups to the Castlemaine Art Gallery and encouraged them to sit with art work and imagine themselves entering the scene that the artist had created or talk to the character whose portrait… Read More ›
Lean on These Resources
What is originality? It is a fallacy to think you have to come up with totally original ideas. Take the time to contemplate and consider which creative giants have influenced you. Who have you leaned on? These resources are ideal… Read More ›
Starting a Journal
Students often think of journals, sketchbooks or visual diaries as a chore, but they can be an exciting space where they can synthesize and express experiences of both the external world and their own internal worlds of imaginings, feelings, dreams… Read More ›
Tell Their Story
Paper dolls are figures cut out of paper or thin card, with separate clothes, also made of paper, that are usually held onto the dolls by paper folding tabs. They may be a figure of a person, animal or inanimate… Read More ›
As Good a Time as Any to Make a Start
Today is a good day to do what we have been talking about doing – to begin creating our new journal. After a frost it is a bright and sunny day today! What to do? Alas! It is another Covid… Read More ›