I was just interviewed in a special magazine for teachers. But you might like it too!
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Publishing, classes, lectures, signings, and other stuff you just gotta know about me.
A lovely evening
Last night I had the honor of talking to a couple of hundred artists at the Art Unravelled conference in Phoenix, AZ. It was a great evening and a chance to meet lots of wonderful creative people.
I hope you had a chance to be there!
(Thanks to Jane LaFazio for the pictures).
Rethinking my story.
Earlier this year, I got a lovely invitation to come out to Phoenix to talk about what I do. Jenny was born and raised there so we travel to Arizona at all times of the year to see her family and I have come to quite like the city and the desert. Besides, it was mid-winter and the idea of the desert in August had a powerful appeal.
The climate was not the only allure. Some of my pals like Jane LaFazio and Seth Apter will be there too. But most of all, it was as an opportunity to turn to a fresh page. I decided to use the invitation as an incentive to think of a whole new approach to talking to groups of people about creativity. I often present my ideas on creative blocks and the struggles we have with drawing as adults but, over the past couple of years, I have wanted to think about illustrated journaling from a different vantage point.
As part of this fresh start, I went back through every page of my illustrated journals in chronological order. From my first tentative collages and chicken scratching, through the books I bound myself, through my trips around the world, my experimentation with media, my growing confidence, Patti’s death, Jack’s departure for college, the move Jenny and I took to LA and so much more. I paged through almost twenty years of life and it was exhilarating and sobering, emotional and revelatory.
Now I have managed to turn all those pages into a brand-new story that I am really excited to present.
My presentation is open to all and the folks in Phoenix have set up a lovely evening with wine and desert and such — but reservations are filling up fast. If you’d like to come, meet some other great creative people and see what I have concocted, I’d love to see you there.
The evening begins at 7:00pm on Saturday, August 8 MT. To find out more and register, click here. There’s also a Facebook event.
I hope to see you there!
My ever changing moods
How do I explain who I am and what I do? Some people know me as a blogger, some as an author, others as an Olympic gold-medalling shot putter. To bring all my myriad facets into one place, I have just created a bulging new website, located appropriately enough at dannygregory.com.
If you are curious, satiate yourself here.
If you share my passion for Paul Weller, then your time will be better spent here instead.
heART
I am late to share this interview I did last month with Heart Your Art. I reveal a lot in this short interview, including why I prefer cities over deserts and how I sum myself up in a word.
Read it and you could win a free kourse at Sketchbook Skool.
A lovely interview with Lisa Congdon
I was just interviewed by the amazing Lisa Congdon. What an honor and what a fun conversation.
Check it out!
искусство перед завтраком
I just learned that there is to be a Russian edition of Art Before Breakfast. I hope it will get many people drawing their samovars.
Creativity and spirituality
I just did a long and in-depth interview with Rev. Maggie Oman Shannon on her show, Creativity Spirit. It will air this Wednesday, April 22, at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern on Unity.fm; and it will be archived at http://www.unity.fm/program/CreativeSpirit and available for download on iTunes.
The Accidental Artist
I did a long interview to be featured in this cool (FREE) online program, starting April 21st.
Sign up and check it out. Why not? After all— it’s free. It’s cool. It’s inspiring. And I am just the first of dozens of cool, inspiring, free speakers.
Brand new!
We are SUPER excited to announce our newest course, Stretching, is open for enrollment right now. Classes begin in a week!
We are also open for enrollment for Beginning, Seeing, and Storytelling. These kourses will begin every few weeks over the month ahead.
To get a preview of all the courses and to enroll, just visit sketchbookskool.com.
We are also very excited that all of our klasses* will now take place in our very own Sketchbook SKOOL HOUSE. Our programming team have built a lovely new environment for our classes which is easy to use and highly responsive. Our servers are now all over the world so you can get your videos and comments faster than ever.
The Skool House is also home to our new Student Union. This is a gathering place for everyone in the SBS community. Places to talk, share work, meet with others who live nearby or who have similar interests. There are even special groups for teachers designers, architects and more. The Student Union is open right now, so even if your courses doesn’t begin right away, you can still join the party.
All of our courses (including membership in the Student Union) are still priced at just $99*.
We hope to see you in klass!
*If you took previous semesters of Sketchbook Skool on Ruzuku, you will continue to have access to them in the future on Ruzuku.
**Due to recent changes in EU tax laws covering online courses, we are now required to add additional VAT for all our European students. Sorry!
Danny Gregory 