It was very much a team effort and I think that everyone that had a hand in this book did an absolutely fabulous job.” The editorial staff compiled the sayings then I created the illustrations based on those sayings and suggestions from the art director. Since I’ve lived in the South for about half my life, I was very excited about contributing my artwork to this project. Julianne explained, “HarperCollins approached me with the concept. I asked her more about the idea and creation of Bless Your Heart as the topic is unique among the Coloring Faith coloring books. The publishing company then asked her to illustrate three other coloring books: Bless Your Heart, Indescribable, and Quilts, Barns, and Buggies. Julianne jumped on the opportunity and was soon commissioned to co-illustrate All Creatures of Our God and King. She heard from a friend that HarperCollins Christian Publishing was looking for coloring book artists. Clair entered the coloring book world in 2016. I also love to paint, knit, build things, read, and write little stories or poems of my own occasionally.” Creating Bless Your Heart and Other Coloring Books My best friend, Jennifer Moorman, and I create stories together that she writes and I illustrate, which is always loads of fun. When asked about how she occupies her free time, Julianne responded with more examples of being immersed in nature and all things creative: “I love gardening and working outside, walking, observing nature, and spending time with my wonderful family and dogs. Her work is also influenced by Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha ’s whimsical elegance and style. “Truly, I don’t think there is a pattern or swirl that isn’t found somewhere in nature, and the possibilities, as far as artistic interpretation, are endless.” She is drawn to nature, wildlife, and various shapes, colors, and designs found in outdoors: When asked about inspiration for her work, Julianne mentioned nature first and foremost. To know and appreciate Julianne’s illustrations, one must know something about her optimistic and creative spirit. It’s clear this woman has talent after looking at her illustrations and graphic design work. Having lived in the South for almost a decade, this coloring book was refreshing, funny, and brought back great memories. I began checking out Julianne’s website and Facebook page soon after getting my copy of the book. I wanted to get to know her after delving into and loving the Bless Your Heart: Favorite Southern Sayings book. Clair works with HarperCollins Christian Publishing as an adult coloring book illustrator. Super Productivity is an advanced open source To-Do list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities.Julianne St. While the app won't magically solve all your productivity, time management and procrastination issues, the combination of planning ahead and quickly re-planning whenever necessary, breaking tasks down into smaller bits and doing a bit of timeboxing can be a surprisingly powerful combination. The following article will introduce the basic features of the app. Since quickest way to do things in Super Productvity, is to use keyboard shortcuts, I will be focussing on using the most important ones in this tutorial. Plan your tasks and break them down Adding new tasksįirst thing you want to do when starting the app is to create a task. When there are no tasks the app should greet you with an input box to do so. If you already created some you can use the "+" button in the top right or the keyboard shortcut Shift+A to do so. You can close the add task overlay by pressing escape.īelow the input where you enter the task title you can see a little info text which introduces the short syntax. Using the short syntax you can quickly add and edit the time estimated and spent for a task (and also the project and tags assigned to it). Giving time estimates to tasks (aka Timeboxing) is recommended as it can help to increase focus, avoid procrastination and reduce the time spent on a task. Press Shift+A (requires the app window to be focused). ![]() Enter " Getting to now Super Productivity 30m".Press the Escape key to close the overlay.To start tracking time you can either press the y key while a task is focused or click on the little "play" button that appears once you hover it. Productivity Tip: Don't beat yourself up about not meeting the times you estimated and re-plan instead! To stop press y again or press the "pause" button at the top right of the screen.
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