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​Workshops for Boomers and Late Bloomers
Refocus creative energy, minimize your digital footprint, produce the best work of your life!
Digital Smidgital 
Digital Smidgital is a life-long learning strategy for boomers and late bloomers - senior members of the studio arts community.  If you're in your 50's or beyond, this is your pathway through the technology maze related to digital design and publishing.  It's practical, sustainable, enjoyable, and designed for you.  ​At it's core, it's all about making a healthy shift to refocus precious time and energy on creativity and enjoyment of studio life and work.  ​

​Specific Objectives 
  1. reduce computer seat time / screen time
  2. employ a single-route workflow strategy
  3. eliminate steep learning curves
  4. more bite-size visual examples, guided practice and demos
  5. simplify technical concepts with vivid analogies and concrete examples
  6. adopt integrated tools that are automatic and virtually invisible 
  7. refocus time and energy on creative story development
  8. redevelop touch using low-tech tools, ie. journals and sketchbooks

General Outcomes  
  1. get free and clear from technical frustration and anxiety
  2. enhance enjoyment and satisfaction with studio work-life
  3. create magical, spellbinding picture books that touch and inspire
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The old Cookie himself!
​Chris E Hammond
(pen name: Camp Cookie Chris)
Chris is an artist, author, book designer, illustrator/animator,  independent publisher, and teacher. He strives to do inspired work and produce great picture books and other types of publishing projects.  He has created many picture books dating back to his first title, The New Garden, published in 1982. Most recently, he published Something We Forgot, 2018, for kids ages 4-6. His book, River Journal Workshop, The Healing Journey, published in 2015, has been an Amazon top-rated artist’s book.  His current publishing studio practice leverages many years of practical experience gained in the casino gaming industry as an animator and designer. 
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