the third annual michelangelo project
so i regularly visit the french toast girl blog. i love reading her posts - she's so real, so honest, and her kids are simply adorable. AND she's so stinkin' artsy it's incredibly inspiring. seriously, go check it out. (erin - you'll want to especially read the post on packaging girlhood.)
this is her third year of coordinating the michelangelo project, and i'm encouraging you ALL to participate. that's right, every single one of you NEED to be creative on march 6. why? because it's good for all of us to spend a little time really focusing on creativity. not forcing it - but allowing it to have a place in our lives.
this is quoted from the french toast girl blog:
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March 6th is Michelangelo's birthday! To celebrate the birthday of one of the world's most inspiring artists, I invite you to participate in this project.
What you do:
1. Do something creative this Tuesday, March 6th. It can be something you love to do, something you've forgotten how to do, something you've never done and always secretly wanted to try. Here's your excuse! Some ideas are:
- paint/draw/collage
- sculpt (like the master)
- write a poem, a short story
- take a photo
- visit a museum or art gallery
- sew
- cook something exciting you've never made before
- see an art film, foreign film, or movie about an artist
2. Come back here and share your experience!
Post a link to your creation, write about your trip or creative process - share your creative story with others. How creative can we get? (There will be a special post Tuesday for you to post to.)
3. Link back with the above graphic if you've written about it on your site.
4. Have fun, for goodness' sake! This is not about being perfect or creating the best piece of art. It's about embracing your creative side in whatever form it happens to take.
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i participated two years ago with this post:
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in honor of michelangelo's birthday, in conjunction with the michelangelo project, and because i needed a good notebook to use at work - today i made my "top-secret, brown paper bag, string closure notebook". the inside is filled with paper we recently tossed at work. nothing like recycling paper into a new journal, and i'm a huge fan of having the vertical cyan lines on the pages. a couple of "x" eyelets to wrap the string closure around, and i have no worries of it accidently falling open in front of prying eyes. i love it. :)
the michelangelo project courtesy of french toast girl
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do something creative! it's good for you!
this is her third year of coordinating the michelangelo project, and i'm encouraging you ALL to participate. that's right, every single one of you NEED to be creative on march 6. why? because it's good for all of us to spend a little time really focusing on creativity. not forcing it - but allowing it to have a place in our lives.
this is quoted from the french toast girl blog:
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March 6th is Michelangelo's birthday! To celebrate the birthday of one of the world's most inspiring artists, I invite you to participate in this project.
What you do:
1. Do something creative this Tuesday, March 6th. It can be something you love to do, something you've forgotten how to do, something you've never done and always secretly wanted to try. Here's your excuse! Some ideas are:
- paint/draw/collage
- sculpt (like the master)
- write a poem, a short story
- take a photo
- visit a museum or art gallery
- sew
- cook something exciting you've never made before
- see an art film, foreign film, or movie about an artist
2. Come back here and share your experience!
Post a link to your creation, write about your trip or creative process - share your creative story with others. How creative can we get? (There will be a special post Tuesday for you to post to.)
3. Link back with the above graphic if you've written about it on your site.
4. Have fun, for goodness' sake! This is not about being perfect or creating the best piece of art. It's about embracing your creative side in whatever form it happens to take.
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i participated two years ago with this post:
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in honor of michelangelo's birthday, in conjunction with the michelangelo project, and because i needed a good notebook to use at work - today i made my "top-secret, brown paper bag, string closure notebook". the inside is filled with paper we recently tossed at work. nothing like recycling paper into a new journal, and i'm a huge fan of having the vertical cyan lines on the pages. a couple of "x" eyelets to wrap the string closure around, and i have no worries of it accidently falling open in front of prying eyes. i love it. :)
the michelangelo project courtesy of french toast girl
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do something creative! it's good for you!
6 Comments:
Oh boy. Not much time until Tuesday. I better get thinking! Now, does it all have to be completed in one day? Or can it be started on that day?
Umm not much going on in the creativity aspect of my life. I am not a good artist. I would love to learn to knit though LOVE IT. Wanna teach me?
i would say making a solid start on something creative would definitely count.
and bethany, i'd love to teach you to knit, but i don't know how to do it either!
ok, it is monday and i'm just learning this... but i'll do something. i might not picture and post, but i'll do something to honor the man on the day certainly. i'm actually thinking my whole reading class might have to do something ;)
and you're so right, i LOVED that post, becca!!
and i wanna learn to knit, too!
We should go take a class somewhere. I have no clue where though.
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