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From Deborah:
It was an honor to do Interpretive Touch Drawing at Seeds of Compassion.
Touch Drawing is a simple yet profound process. Images are created through
the touch of fingertips on paper. The process allows for direct expression
of the soul, and can be used for deep therapeutic and spiritual purposes.
In the conference setting, I use Touch Drawing to visually portray the
content and energetic qualities of the lectures and musical performances.
Through the immediacy of the process, I can create 7- 8 drawings per hour.
These drawing were created during the Tuesday event; 'Inspiring Compassion
in Our Youth; Youth and Spiritual Connection Dialogue'. If you attended the
day or are watching it online, you can use these images to enhance the
feeling-tone of the presentations. Think of them as notes from the soul.
All these images will be posted soon on the CONFERENCE ART page at
www.touchdrawing.com. Go there if you would like to order a signed, archival
fine art print. Contact center@touchdrawing.com if you are interested in
purchasing an original or receiving permission to reproduce an image.
Drawings can be enhanced with color. A percentage of any income generated by
these images will be donated to support the ongoing work of Seeds of
Compassion.
All images © 2008 Deborah Koff-Chapin.
1. Hook, 2. Lollipop!, 3. Yellow box, 4. Blue, 5. ?, 6. Blue sign, 7. Star, 8. Reese's 4 Milk Chocolate Dipped Cookies, 9. Core, 10. Trash, 11. Fire alarm, 12. Blue, 13. Face, 14. White Castle WHAT YOU CRAVE, 15. Face, 16. TRY the bold taste of new spicy premium chicken sandwich
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
A part in a series of hand drawn mindmaps, diagrams, and sketchnotes from my personal visual thinking collection.
Colorful imagery comes from and leads to creative thinking. Believe it or not, even black and white images can be "colorful" if they are the other things on the list.
Available as a free download at my website: www.OneSquigglyLine.com
"I just know it won't work."
~ Everyone, at least once
Ideas can be pretty sneaky at times, appearing seemingly out of nowhere. But even sneakier are the things we think and say that prevent us from creating.
"I know they'll think it's a crazy idea."
~ Everyone, at least once
A lot of times, creativity squelchers surface when when we jump to conclusions instead of taking the time to look at the whole picture. Other times, the need to conform to strict guidelines and rules (such as at work) prevents us from creating. Fear of being different or taking risks squelches creativity, too.
"I'm just not creative enough for that."
~ Everyone, at least once
Although creativity squelchers are not things we want around, knowing they lurk in the shadows unarms them a bit. After all, you can't sneak up on someone who knows you're there.
Whiteboard from a mini-workshop I led at the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Society For Technical Communication. The workshop was geared toward helping people plan projects by thinking the project through visually.
chart trying to show more old uses for the internet...with the user having a strict line of separation between information and communication
I decided to mind map our conversation. The paper wasn't quite big enough and I only had two thick pens, but it was still fun.
I wanted to start sketching in black and white because first I want to improve basic drawing. Later I'll add color. It's my point of view of how I'd represent each word. Tell me what do you think! I'd really appreciate it!
I wanted to start sketching in black and white because first I want to improve basic drawing. Later I'll add color. It's my point of view of how I'd represent each word. Tell me what do you think! I'd really appreciate it!
A colleague came to me with a plan to talk about a debate about World War II in her class — American isolationists vs. interventionists. We talked about her plans, and did some revision of these plans with diagrams and maps and Brainstorming!
Her class has 23 kids in it. We decided that we were going to have Roosevelt deliver a policy speech, and then have two teams under him — one would propose the specific lend-lease legislation; a group of opponents would try to undercut it. The opposition would then propose their own legislation and Roosevelt's team would try to undercut THAT. But then we were left with too many kids sitting on the sidelines. We tried to resolve it by imagining teams on the sidelines producing graphic design materials and propaganda that would support or undercut both sides — or that would serve as "voices from the extremes" which would help make clear what a dangerous time this was in American history.
Some of our planning revolved around having a "graphic design" team produce a newspaper that had all the technical data that each side would need in its newspaper — and to tie those newspaper designs to William Randolph Hurst and other newspaper demagogues of the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s.