Create with Me Art Journaling

How is your Monday so far? I hope your week is off to a great start. I am sitting in my studio writing to you-so all in all it’s a great day.

Today I am sharing another video with you. If you read my post last Monday you know that I am working on sharing more video content with you and while I am still debating about sharing on YouTube (I keep going back and forth) I wanted to share a fun Create with Me video here for you today.

I do love watching my favorite creatives don’t you?
I love sitting down and creating with a video playing in the background or sometimes on those days when I just can’t be creative I am grateful to share in the creative play of others and it really makes me happy.

If you would like to see some of my favorite creatives you can visit the link in my sidebar.

One of the things I really hope to do with this site is to encourage my fellow creatives to make their creativity a priority. To claim in for themselves and to make time each day to refill their creative well in a way that only expression can. To sit down with your chosen medium and play. To get lost in your own world, following the direction of your creative muse. For me, this time restores my soul, my mind and my physical well-being in a way nothing else does.

You know those days when you are just completely exhausted and want nothing more than to plop down on the couch and veg out? I have found that if before plopping down, I sit down at my desk and pick up a gelato or colored pencil and tell myself to just make one mark, I almost always feel better instantly. Suddenly I am making more marks and often times ideas start to flow and I find I have done an entire journal spread and I don’t feel so exhausted anymore.

Other times I just make the mark-and that’s ok too.

Today I invite you to try and make a mark. There is no goal here, nothing we are trying to make other than time with our creativity. In the video below you will see that I don’t make anything. I fill a page with color, I have fun, I do some journaling to let out the feelings that need letting out and calling in the energy I need to call in. There is no great masterpiece at the end-unless you count how great I felt after.

So if you have 20 or so minutes to sit with your supplies and your creative muse I would love to have you join me-regardless of your chosen medium. And if you do join in, please leave a comment below-I would love to hear how you felt and what you had a play with.

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

Music by Joystock – https://www.joystock.org