Iridescent Ordinary

Iridescent Ordinary

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you can be creative without drawing

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Rubi McGrory
Feb 20, 2022
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Hello, welcome to today’s edition of The Iridescent Ordinary, in which we investage the art of daily practice. This month we’re exploring creativity.

In my ongoing quest to prove to you that creativity needn’t require drawing skills, I offer you some new ways to see the world: information. 

As I’ve said before, and will continue iterating and reiterating and re-reiterating: you do not need to draw to exercise your creativity. Neither must you compose sonnets nor score sonatas. You must simply use the three pound meat lump in your skull to conjure that which had not previously existed. 

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