Creative Works Studio
793 Gerrard Street East M4M 1Y5 Toronto, ON, Canada

Good morning everyone! We will be having another meditation at 11am. See you soon!Good morning everyone! We will be having another meditation at 11am. See you soon!

Meditation coming up sooooon. See you at 11. :)Meditation coming up sooooon. See you at 11. :)

We will be having another meditation coming up at 11am. See you then!We will be having another meditation coming up at 11am. See you then!

Hello! Creative Works Studio is still closed due the Covid 19 pandemic. We just found out that we will be closed down temporarily. Unfortunately, we won't be able to continue the phone, email or online support. But please keep on with your art activities! Creative expression is so healing. Take care and good health always.

We watched the Creative Brain documentary on netlfix as part of our Friday afternoon group movie watch party. It was really interesting and a good introduction to neuroplasticity. A summary: Try something new. Get off the path of least resistance. Push boundaries. Create something that's not too new (for people to relate) nor too familiar but somewhere in between. Embrace failure. All of these activities will lead to forming new neurological pathways, building a new neural-net in the brain, starting to see things in a different light and then developing new habits. "The neurons that fire together, wire together!" (Meaning the the more you think something, the more those neurons fire, the more you think it and come to believe it.) Easier said than done! But I guess we can try a little bit each day. :)

Here is a nice chat between Margaret Atwood and Adrienne Clarkson as part of #Canadaperforms. More onlibe performances coming to help out Canadian artists. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2456979761283384&id=205712909516

Good morning! What a beautiful day. Meditation coming up shortly. :)Good morning! What a beautiful day. Meditation coming up shortly. :)

This week's art project is Friends in Familar Places. Like the gnomes that people take photos of in cities around the world, we will take photos of a "friend" we have and photograph it around the apartment. We can design environments for our friend too, and that's what I'll be doing this afternoon. I hope you join in!

Just setting up for the meditation Live event. See you soon. OmmmmmmmJust setting up for the meditation Live event. See you soon. Ommmmmmm

These quarantine takes on famous paintings are brilliant! Check it out: https://www.classicfm.com//recreating-famous-paintings-ho/

At noon, we'll do a short, live check in about self portraits. Let me know how yours is coming along!At noon, we'll do a short, live check in about self portraits. Let me know how yours is coming along!

CWS meditation 2

Here is the slide show of the colouring and collage self portrait activity, with Amigo as inspiration! It was really nice to colour shapes and zone out. Then I cut out the shapes and arranged them into a face. I glued it all onto the background I had coloured and outlined it in marker. It represents how I am feeling in these up and down times. :)

Sorry, there are some temporary technical difficulties. Here is the info: The theme for the art projects is Facing Forward, meaning we can face this challenge together, when we have each other, expressing ourselves in community. For the first activity, we'll do a self portrait to situate ourselves in the here and now. We'll do our 'face' as we face the future together.... Any style, medium or expression is welcome. For mine, I'll be colouring then cutting out the coloured pieces of paper as shapes to make a picasso style face. But you are welcome to write, paint, draw, collage, write a song, do a sculpture etc. to express the portrait of yourself. We can share in person when we are back in the studio. But if you'd like me to upload them to our cws website or share via email, let me know.

At 2pm ish we will chat about our weekly art activity and theme.At 2pm ish we will chat about our weekly art activity and theme.