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Creative Play – Week 3

Sunday 7 September 2014 / Antony Simpson / Leave a Comment

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Again, I missed a few days this week. But here’s some samples of my creativity this week:

My Drawing - Bottle Opener — My Drawing – Bottle Opener

My Drawing - Fire Exit — My Drawing – Fire Exit

My Writing - Stuck in a Lift — My Writing – Stuck in a Lift

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Antony

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Creative Play – Week 2

Sunday 31 August 2014 / Antony Simpson / Leave a Comment

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I missed a few days of creative play this week due to being so busy or just forgetting. It’s always the same when we start new things and have to make changes to our routine. However here’s some examples of my creative play for this week:

My Drawing - Hammock — My Drawing – Hammock

Writing - Something Lost — Writing – Something Lost

My Writing - Meanest Thing — My Writing – Meanest Thing

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Antony

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Creative Play – Week 1

Sunday 24 August 2014 / Antony Simpson / Leave a Comment

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I recently blogged about Being Creative Everyday. In that post I said that I’d take time out everyday to creatively play. Here is some samples of my progress:

My Creative Writing - A Sneeze — My Creative Writing – A Sneeze

Creative Writing - Something You Found — Creative Writing – Something You Found

Remember what I said about them not being masterpieces? Well…there you go. Point proven. I will post an update next Sunday.

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Antony

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Be Creative Everyday

Tuesday 19 August 2014 / Antony Simpson / 2 Comments

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Recently I’ve been thinking about being creative, but not actually doing anything creative. Creativity should be something I do everyday, as it has so many benefits, including:

It lights up my imagination, giving me pleasure and increasing my happiness.
It motivates me.
It is good for my mind, heart and soul. It makes my mind more active, my heart beat faster and enriches my soul.
It helps me deal with my feelings, good and bad. It also helps me to express these feelings.
It makes me a better problem-solver. When I’m feeling creative, I can come up with better solutions to problems.
It allows me to explore ideas.
It enables me to look at events, situations and people in different ways.
Helps me to hope for and imagine better or alternative futures.
It gives me hope, at times when I feel that I need it.
Other people’s creativity inspires me.

The way to be more creative, is to play, as children do inhibited. So when I was at Waterstones at the weekend and saw these books, I just had to pick them up. Here’s my opportunity to play and be creative:

I picked up both of these books along with a pack of felt tip pens. I’m going to draw or write something in these books at least once a day. I’ve already started.

I’ll be posting my progress here by sharing a few scanned images. Don’t expect any drawing I do to be an artistic master piece (for that see my fabulous Illustrator friend Sye); or that any writing I do will be literary genius. Just take it for what it is – me playing. I’m aiming to post a progress update once a week.

Blog soon,

Antony