What Constitutes a Creative Space? - Andrea Hunter

A top-down view of a notebook as a creative space, on a wood surface. The pages of the notebook show two days of a daily planner. The left page has pen doodles of three strawberries in the corner. The right page shows a hand-lettered quote which reads: "at the end of the day i would rather be excluded for who i include than included for who i exclude - Rev. Eston Williams". A retro camera above the notebook, a gold marker and two gels pens to the right of the notebook. A small bit of macrame at the top of the photo.

What constitutes a creative space for you? Maybe you have a beautiful light-filled space that’s all your own. Or maybe it’s just the blank corner of a notebook page and few pens for doodling or lettering. Somewhere along this continuum there’s space for all of us.

There are lots of digital spaces that invite creativity as well. An instagram account, tumblr, a podcast, a vlog, a blog. Yesterday I talked about starting a new one.

Here are a few on-line creatives I’m inspired by and have been following for a long time:

Also, I was incredibly inspired by this article from Elle Harris, about working in a creative space that you can take anywhere, something that’s accessible to all of us. (By the way, the print version of the magazine is what studio dreams are made of!)

stationery in this photo

notebook
date stamp
skeleton clip
pen
gold pen (I don’t know what it’s called but this is where I bought it)
brush pen (but don’t buy it from amazon)

P.S. Listening to this playlist while I work, and eating leftovers of this Deliciously Ella recipe for lunch.