Wellness Calendar: Thursday 31 July

Long term creative projects
If your opportunities to be creative are few and far between, would you consider having a long-term project on the go that you can keep coming back to, effortlessly, rather than trying to find a spark that ignites and motivates you?
Here are but a few suggestions…
Decorating a box, which is then filled with symbolic things that are important to you when it comes to understanding/discovering yourself.
William Heath Robinson (1872–1944) drew all sorts of humorous cartoons depicting complicated contraptions for simple everyday tasks. Can you try your hand at a similar invention for something straightforward in your own life? Can you start to draw a machine, and decide later what it could be useful for? (Or perhaps you will never truly know what it does?!)
An archipelago is a stretch of sea where there are many, many islands. In her Earthsea books, Ursula le Guin drew the islands first and then tried to work out what went on in the islands, what the back-story was, and what the culture was like. Could you do the same? Could you draw a series of islands that represent different parts of you, different experiences, different people in your life? Or could you draw islands and their stories that have nothing to do with you and everything to do with the rich imagination in your head?