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Guess whose words have appeared in Artists Magazine again, kind of? I don't whether they'll make it into an upcoming print version of this magazine - for now the publisher has featured one of my own creativity exercises on the magazine's website. It's the second one in this screenshot, from the website:

A little while ago they posed this question, to their artist-readers: "What specific creative exercises do you find especially helpful?" They that said they'd select a few replies to feature on their website and social media, and perhaps also in the print edition of the magazine.

I submitted a creativity exercise that I'd created for myself, something that I'd started doing to improve my art practice. No pencils or paper needed, only my imagination. Due to my rare disease and chronic pain condition, I often find myself waiting for medical appointments in places where it's simply not practical to pull out a pencil and sketchbook. For example on a hospital examination table, wearing a hospital gown!

So I came up with this little creative mind game to help me pass the time; I call it Value Games, a riff on the Hunger Games. In this example I've used a kitchen as the setting, but you can do this literally anywhere; an aircraft, a garden or forest, a restaurant, a shop, in the street...
This is what's currently featured on the website of the Artists Network, publisher of Artists Magazine:

"Value games: I'll imagine an everyday object in a "wild" colour, then picture the scene in complementary colours. Turquoise oven? Which shades and values of orange are the counter, cabinets, backsplash? The pots, fridge, etc? Imagine values for depth, shadows, reflections.
— Sandra Woods"

Try it for yourself, it's quite a lot of fun to do this - and much more difficult than you'd expect. 
If you'd like to see the website for yourself, here's the link:
My creative exercise, featured on the Artists Magazine website, 18 January 2023