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Jul12

Creative Juice #146

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

Creative Juice #146

Happy to provide your weekend inspiration. You’re welcome.

Recipe for watercolor.
Summer reading list.
The case for a limited palette.
Joan Miro at MOMA.
Botany is stranger than fiction. A plant that looks like a hummingbird.
Zentangles on a fatherly theme.
His boss’ retirement and an illness made him homeless. His art saved his life.
Illustrator Danny Beck’s journey.
Three-dimensional murals.
Gorgeous quilts! Be sure to scroll all the way down, because all are amazing.
Author George Saunders talks about writing.
In praise of child-made toys.

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Nov30

Creative Juice #117

Posted on November 30, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

Creative Juice #117

Wow! A varied offering this week.

Wonderful street art.
A sculptor discusses pre-Columbian gold objects.
Pretty baby scrap quilts.
An illustrator’s process.
Terminally cute animal photos.
Wonderful tangles.
Sketching at Starbucks.
Tips to help students study successfully.
What to buy for the bookworms on your Christmas list.
For the Stan Lee fans.
Daring sculptures celebrating gestation.
The Boss is coming to Netflix! (Is it just me, or has his voice gotten a lot raspier?)

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Sep14

Creative Juice #106

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

Creative Juice #106

These will knock your socks off:

Is photo enhancement a bad thing?
Quilters, do you know which quilting tools will not make it through airport security?
100 classic novels. I’ve read 46% of these, and more are on my TBR list.
Just for fun: art mash-ups.
Gorgeous street art.
Really teeny quilts you can make yourself and wear as a pin.
Variations on a zentangle theme.
Short summaries of 100 podcast episodes. Chose the ones you want to listen to.
For my fellow museum nerds.
Yes, this is the kind of storm we get in Arizona.
How to take notes like Leonardo da Vinci.
Large-scale, highly-detailed pen-and-ink landscapes.

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Aug24

Creative Juice #103

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

Creative Juice #103

Beauty to inspire your own creations:

Read what Reece Witherspoon is reading.
Origami like you’ve never seen it before.
Traveling in Segovia, Spain.
My favorite spot on earth—The Cloisters.
What to see at Yosemite.
Watercolor basics and special effects.
The power of music.
Quilt eye candy.
Pretty soon we’ll be remodeling our kitchen, so I was tickled to see Suhita Shirodkar’s sketches of the demolition of her kitchen.
What is the essential requirement of creation?
Who determines the value of art?
Breathtaking sculpture.

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May18

Creative Juice #94

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

Creative Juice #94

A dozen articles to quench your creative thirst.

Where the animals dine.
Pretty rocks.
Lots of beautiful quilts and links to free patterns.
If you love to make fun of the Bee Gees, you’ll love this. Since I LOVE the Bee Gees, it sent me to YouTube for a Bee Gee mix fix.
Awesome tangles!
Brazilian murals.
Inside the Natural History Museum in New York City.
If Star Wars fans designed insects.
These charcoal drawings remind me of the volcanic eruptions happening in Hawaii right now.
I’ll bet you don’t know this about one of the US’s most famous dance troupes.
What Goethe, Thoreau, Margaret Mead, Virginia Woolf, and others say about blue.
For Sherlock Holmes fans.

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May4

Creative Juice #92

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

Creative Juice #92

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. ~John Keats

I’m not sure these balls are actually embroidered. I think at least some of them are very expertly wrapped with threads.
An open-air museum in Japan.
Prize-winning birth photos. These made me cry. Warning: nudity.
I love watching cranes—they’re so graceful.
How to encourage your children to be creative.
Do you travel? Do you take photographs when you’re out of town? Enter this contest.
Amazing tangles.
Photographs by Linda McCartney.
Ancient technology.
Amazing quilts.
I’m a sucker for a kid who can dance like Michael Jackson.
Ice cream cones as art.

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Apr6

Creative Juice #88

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

Creative Juice #88

May these offerings be like a spring breeze to your spirit:

Award-winning quilts.
Is it wrong to dress up and pose your dog?
Handmade glass.
Gorgeous tangles.
How Spike Jonze works with dancers.
If everything had rhyming names…
A sweet patchwork-pocket apron to make for a little girl.
If you love choral singing, you need to watch this. If you’ve ever wondered why people like to sing in choirs, you need to watch this.
Where can you find some fresh inspiration for your art?
For the museum nerds. (That’s a good thing, I promise.)
These new books look fabulous.
An hour of calligraphy practice before a watercolor session?

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