Engaging Creatively With Doreen Baker, Author and Illustrator Ep. 82

Leaha Mattinson and Doreen Baker discuss staying in the present with creativity, inspiration, books, and hummingbirds.

Doreen Baker is a writer, painter, illustrator, and a published author of several children’s book. She was born in Nanaimo, BC. She loves to travel, garden, write, and paint, with a preference for water colors. She has published 4 children’s books;
1. Humm (Book 1) -- Follow Humm as she explores the secret world that she discovered concealed within her own beautiful garden.
2. Humm's Quest (Book 2) -- Humm explores parts of Vancouver Island on a quest to find Queen Reen.
3. Humm Dreams (Book 3) -- Humm explores the secret world within the Dream Realm.
4. Humm on the Farm (Book 4) -- Humm accidently enters a time portal to the past. 

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00:00 intro
00:45 Introducing Doreen Baker, artist, writer, children’s books author
05:00 Becoming an author, Doreen’s books
09:30 Characters, what’s happening
13:50 Inspirations, hummingbirds
16:30 Intended audience
19:00 Hope, a reason to engage with the world
25:00 Doreen’s projects, website
27:00 What Doreen is working on, drawing inspiration
32:00 What makes us do things, being by society
37:00 Meditation, emotional centering
39:30 Learning from Humm
45:00 Be creative, even if you’re bad at it
48:00 Bird sounds
51:00 Closing statements
52:20 outro