Micro-podcast: inspirational books round-up
In today’s micro-podcast I’ve picked five books from those that people have recommended in response to my podcasts last week about the books that have inspired me as an artist. The five are: How to be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smith The Sound of Paper by Julia Cameron Letting go of the more »
Micro-podcast: Dan Price’s Moonlight Chronicles
I think we are so lucky to be living in the time of the internet. As artists we are suddenly able to be our own publishers and gallery owners and marketers. We also have a constant source of inspiration at our finger-tips. In today’s micro-podcast I’m talking about Dan Price, an Oregon-based artist who came more »
Micro-podcasting: The Artist’s Way
It’s interesting that I had chosen to podcast about Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way today. The book is probably the classic text for telling us as artists that our role in the creative process is showing up at the page no matter how hard we find it. Do that one small thing (does it every more »
Never too Late
In today’s micro-podcast I’m talking about a book I read a decade and a half ago, John Holt’s Never too Late. It’s not a book about drawing, but rather about a man’s story of taking up playing a musical instrument in middle age. At the time, that’s all I thought it was about, in fact more »
Podcasting, drawing, napping and drinking tea…
I’ve been keeping it simple today; recording a micro podcast, working on some Last 10 Boxes drawings, drinking tea and napping (actually napping quite a lot, I seem to need it at the moment). In today’s podcast I was talking about another book that has been an important inspiration to me, Danny Gregory’s Everyday Matters. more »
Ugly brown teapot ritual
Recently I’ve been re-reading Twyla Tharp’s excellent book, The Creative Habit. If you don’t know the book, it deals with constructing creative habits that can last a life-time. Central to making creativity a habit for Twyla is using rituals to feed creative routines. I’ve recently realised that an ugly little brown teapot has become key more »
Thinking about a routine
I was chatting on Twitter and on today’s micro-podcast about routines, particularly developing a drawing routine. For me, this last year or so has been about getting my life back into some sort of shape, a shape that I hope is sustainable for a long time to come. Now I feel that it’s time to more »
The Last 10 Boxes
A started a new project yesterday. It’s one I’ve been thinking about for a while but haven’t felt ready to start until now. The Last 10 Boxes is to be a visual chronicle of the unpacking of the last boxes of things brought here from my mother’s house after she died. The boxes are full more »
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I'm Michael Nobbs, an artist, blogger and tea drinker (not necessarily in that order).
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