We need a place to collect play and collect our inspiration, record our days and explore ideas. Some people keep sketchbooks and journals, but those label can create an expectation and pressure.

An Artist Diary, is something much more intimate it’s a place that we can write and draw in, but we could just as easily make a painting, and stick in some interesting pieces of paper and ephemera.

We’ll be doing some of that in this project. (And more in a future project)

Over 5 days I will offer you 5 ways to fill your artist diary.

Some use this as a menu, others have picked a default and kept going with that, ideally this will be an inspiration and you will develop your own ideas.

These are the modules we’ll cover.

Day 1: Draw One Line a Day

Day 2: Daily Diary

Day 3: Free Writing

Day 4: Daily Comic

Day 5: Start with an image (the messy page)

Ten Minute Artist is a community of creatives who believe in the power of a daily creative practice. By taking Ten Minutes a Day to practice our creativity, we build that creative capacity that transforms the mundanity of daily life into opportunities for new creative expressions.

This might mean some thing special in a sketchbook, but it could just as likely mean sparking a meaningful conversation, or solving an impossible problem in your life or the lives of those around you.

Algorithms, divide us and dehumanise us, turning us into nothing but mindless consumers. Exercising or creativity is a tool for freeing ourselves from imposed programming and writing our own scripts

“Start a Daily Drawing Habit, a 15-day gameplan (10 minutes a day)” is available to all paid subscribers.

Paid subscribers also get a new 5-Day project each month.(10 minutes a day) It’s a way to keep momentum, jump back in if you fall off, and stay connected with the community.

The Project Library houses all previous projects, this lets you pick a creative challenge to suit your moment in the journey.

Join the Community!

As soon as you join, I’ll walk you through the Starting a Daily Drawing Habit Gameplan, through a series of daily emails. There will be room for you to share your work with the community and you’re free to reply any of the emails to ask me questions if you need guidance. I look forward to seeing you inside!

The entire premise of Ten Minute Artist, centers around our ability to be present, energetic and tap into the creativity that is in us and around us, and bring some small portion of that onto a page each day.

This means existing in time in a certain state, to make space and time for our art. The good news is that all you need is 10 minutes.

This project is designed to be taken over 5 days, but if you want to work through them more quickly, go for it!

Day 1: High Voltage Time

Day 2: Time Tetris

Day 3: Taking Time

Day 4: Alive time

Day 5: Sacred Time

Join me and hundreds of Ten Minute Artist in the gallery (link at the end of each day’s assignment)

Ten Minute Artist is a community of creatives who believe in the power of a daily creative practice. By taking Ten Minutes a Day to practice our creativity, we build that creative capacity that transforms the mundanity of daily life into opportunities for new creative expressions.

This might mean something special in a sketchbook, but it could just as likely mean sparking a meaningful conversation, or solving an impossible problem in your life or the lives of those around you.

Algorithms, divide us and dehumanise us, turning us into nothing but mindless consumers. Exercising or creativity is a tool for freeing ourselves from imposed programming and writing our own scripts

“Start a Daily Drawing Habit, a 15-day gameplan (10 minutes a day)” is available to all paid subscribers.

Paid subscribers also get a new 5-Day project each month (10 minutes a day) It’s a way to keep momentum, jump back in if you fall off, and stay connected with the community.

The Project Library houses all previous projects, this lets you pick a creative challenge to suit your moment in the journey.

Join the Community!

As soon as you join, I’ll walk you through the Starting a Daily Drawing Habit Gameplan, through a series of daily emails. There will be room for you to share your work with the community and you’re free to reply any of the emails to ask me questions if you need guidance. I look forward to seeing you inside!