The Creative Life: A Mixed Media Blog

Do you dream of living The Creative Life? Well, Ricë Freeman-Zachery lives it, eats it, breathes it and sleeps it! In her mixed media blog, explores matters of creativity, art, living the life and more! Some days the prolific Ricë takes on the hot topics of the day—social media, for example. Some days she doles out artist advice, relying on her tenure as a working artist to help her help others. Some days she shares a slice of her life as an artist—warts and all! We think Ricë’s is one of the best art blogs around—and we think you’ll agree.

Do you dream of living The Creative Life? Well, Ricë Freeman-Zachery lives it, eats it, breathes it and sleeps it! In her mixed media blog, explores matters of creativity, art, living the life and more! Some days the prolific Ricë takes on the hot topics of the day—social media, for example. Some days she doles out artist advice, relying on her tenure as a working artist to help her help others. Some days she shares a slice of her life as an artist—warts and all! We think Ricë’s is one of the best art blogs around—and we think you’ll agree.

Hone Those Skills!

Gores: a good reason to practice. (And we’re not talking about Al and Tipper here.)

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Everything You Need to Know for International Fake Journal Month

International Fake Journal Month begins tomorrow, but there’s still plenty of time to join the fun. Here’s the last of Roz’s posts with everything you need to know.

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Roz Explains More About The Coolest Month Ever

There’s still plenty of time for you to join in the fun of International Fake Journal Month, and here’s founder Roz Stendahl to tell you more about it.

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What Exactly Is International Fake Journal Month, Anyway?

What do you mean, you’ve never heard of International Fake Journal Month? Ooh, honeys, have we got a treat for you!

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Laume Zekas on Play

Laume Zekas had such thoughtful and insightful comments about Play that we wanted to share them in depth, and she generously allows us to do that today.

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One More Day of Studio Play

And now for our final comments about studio play, with some that I think will really resonate with you.

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More Studio Play

Today we’ll hear from other artists who have still other ways of mixing work + play in the studio.

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Playing in the Studio

And what about play in the studio? Here’s what your fellow artists have to say.

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How Artists Played as Kids: And Still Do It Today

The coolest thing is hearing from artists who can trace the things they love doing today back to their childhood, from writing to building to making what grown-ups call assemblages but kids know as “really cool stuff.”

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How Artists Played as Kids: Making Stuff

Today you get to find out you actually weren’t along all those afternoons you spent making stuff—what kind of stuff? It didn’t matter—as a kid. Turns out a lot of other kids were holed up in their own rooms creating everything from stuffed animals to buildings.

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