<p>A little late, but here! Next week we&#8217;ll get back to our regular Wednesday schedule. Our prompt for this week is a photo. What does this scenery inspire or evoke for you? If you’d like, please feel free to share thoughts and responses to the prompt in the comments. On Facebook, I’ve started a “Maker’s &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/09/08/makers-day-14/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Maker&#8217;s Day 14</spa

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s post is a photo. What does this scenery inspire or evoke for you? This photo was taken in northwestern Spain, in the region Asturias. Last week&#8217;s Maker&#8217;s Day prompt &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/24/makers-day-13/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Maker&#8

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today’s prompt is a musical one: my (slightly rough, with apologies 😉 ) recording of &#8220;Asturias,&#8221; by Isaac Albeniz. &#8220;Asturias&#8221; is a movement from the Spanish Suite by Albeniz, who &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/17/makers-day-12/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-t

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s prompt is a word: What images, sounds, feelings, etc. might this word evoke? In what ways or contexts do you experience surprise? Is the idea of it overall positive, &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/10/makers-day-11/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Maker&#8217;s Day 1

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s prompt is a musical one: Prelude in D Minor, from Book 2 of The Well-Tempered Clavier, by J.S. Bach. What does it inspire for you? If you’d like, please &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/08/03/makers-day-10/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Maker&#8217;s Day 10</span></a><

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today’s prompt, like last week&#8217;s, is a single word: This word could take you in many directions: music-related, thinking about doors and locks, thinking about solutions to puzzles or codes&#8230;etc. &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/27/makers-day-9/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s prompt is a single word: You&#8217;re invited to take this word in any direction that inspires you. What thoughts/images/story/etc. might it evoke for you? If you’d like, please feel &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/20/makers-day-8/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Mak

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s prompt is explained in the video. 🙂 Short version: you&#8217;re invited to experiment with using magic, or something surreal that breaks the usual &#8220;rules&#8221; of the world, in the &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/13/makers-day-7/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-tex

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s prompt segues out of last week&#8217;s &#8220;color green.&#8221; This is a short piece of music, &#8220;All in a Garden Green,&#8221; by English Renaissance composer William Byrd (1540-1623). Apologies for &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/06/makers-day-6/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class=

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s prompt is a color: green. I recently took a wonderful poetry workshop at Blue Mountain Poetry Salon, in which we were each asked to choose a color and think &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/06/29/makers-day-5/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Maker&#8217;s Day 5</span></a

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. This week’s prompt is a musical one: Frederic Chopin&#8217;s &#8220;Ocean&#8221; Etude, performed by Lithuanian pianist Lukas Geniusas. What does it conjure up for you?</p>

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. This week’s prompt comes from my writing student Sandra Perez, who also takes beautiful photos. She shares these two images as our creative inspiration this week: What might one of &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/06/15/makers-day-3/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Maker&#8217;s Day 3

<p>I thought I&#8217;d try something new on the blog on Wednesdays. In the spirit of creating mental space and maybe also extra beauty, each week I&#8217;ll share a small prompt: a picture, some music, a quote, etc. If you feel like it, I invite you to take a little time and see what the prompt &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/06/01/midweek-break-makers-day/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Midweek break: Maker&#8217;s&n