Well I have started off on a creative sidetrack over the last few days. I am working on my first larger mixed media piece and I am completely obsessed with it. Maybe I am becoming a real artist, because it is all I can think and dream about. I want to always be working at it but alas I still have a household to run and a family to care for. I would love to post pictures of it's progress but it is a gift and I don't want to give anything away. I really hope in the end it comes out the way it is in my head, or at least close enough to make me happy. I will be back at my creative project a day soon. I will also show you the completed project when the element of surprise is no longer required.
Cheers
PS. You know all those things you've always wanted to do?
You should go do them.
Monday, 21 May 2012
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Day 94:
"Nothing rhymes with orange. Work only with orange materials today."
Today I did a painting. It took me more than a day actually. I took my inspiration from a friend who has done much larger paintings with a similar pattern but they are much more colourful and layered. I loved her work so I decided to do a smaller version of my own. It is acrylic on canvas. The nature inspiration is that it looks very much like flowers to me.
There are 3 shades of orange in this painting which it is kind of hard to see in the photo. The entire background was painted with orange. The skinny 'petals' were painted with the same orange mixed with a little yellow to lighten it. Then I went in with the same orange again darkened with some red to outline the 'petals' and added it to a bit of the background.
Cheers
Today I did a painting. It took me more than a day actually. I took my inspiration from a friend who has done much larger paintings with a similar pattern but they are much more colourful and layered. I loved her work so I decided to do a smaller version of my own. It is acrylic on canvas. The nature inspiration is that it looks very much like flowers to me.
There are 3 shades of orange in this painting which it is kind of hard to see in the photo. The entire background was painted with orange. The skinny 'petals' were painted with the same orange mixed with a little yellow to lighten it. Then I went in with the same orange again darkened with some red to outline the 'petals' and added it to a bit of the background.
Cheers
Monday, 14 May 2012
Day 93:
"Nuts and Bolts. Make something with any nuts, bolts, screws or nails you have lying around."
I know it has been a while again since I posted something. I can't seem to keep the rhythm going. I have been creative daily though, so at least I am keeping that up. Some days I really get off on a tangent from this project as I explore something new. I am not to worried though because the whole reason I started this was to explore my creative side.
Today's project didn't really inspire me. I couldn't seem to come up with anything interesting. Part of the problem might have been that my son did a fantastic picture using found nuts and bolts (and sea glass) back when he was 12 called 'Tree of Life'. That kept coming up in my head when I was trying to come up with an idea and if I did anything similar to his he would have called me on it. So hear are some sea stars made from screws hanging out on my garage floor.
I know it has been a while again since I posted something. I can't seem to keep the rhythm going. I have been creative daily though, so at least I am keeping that up. Some days I really get off on a tangent from this project as I explore something new. I am not to worried though because the whole reason I started this was to explore my creative side.
Today's project didn't really inspire me. I couldn't seem to come up with anything interesting. Part of the problem might have been that my son did a fantastic picture using found nuts and bolts (and sea glass) back when he was 12 called 'Tree of Life'. That kept coming up in my head when I was trying to come up with an idea and if I did anything similar to his he would have called me on it. So hear are some sea stars made from screws hanging out on my garage floor.
Friday, 20 April 2012
Day 92:
"Write a letter to yourself at another time in your life (past or future)."
This was an interesting prompt but a letter to myself past or present was not really something I wanted to share on my blog. I did want to do writing as the creative project today so here it goes.
This is a little story I started telling my youngest daughter in the spring of 2011. It was the first spring in our new home and we would see the little covers that would drop off the magnolia buds as the bloom when we would walk to and from school. She picked one up one day and asked me what it was. This is what I said:
They are a sign of spring. The best sign of spring! It means the fairies have decided it is spring. You see darling, these are the fairies winter wings. That is why they are fuzzy and heavy. They protect the fairies and keep them warm through the winter. It makes it a little harder for the fairies to fly, because the wings are bulky, but it is the best protection in the biting cold. Then when it is truly spring the fairies meet at dusk in the magnolia trees, just as the flowers are about to bloom, and have the spring celebration where they shed their winter wings in favour of the light gossamer wings you usually associate with fairies. In the morning the fairies have gone off to sleep and the only thing left behind are the winter wings.
For the next few days she asked me to tell the story again and again as we walked to and from school. Then she said, 'So it's true mum there really ARE fairies. GREAT! I am taking these wings to school to show my friends and I am telling them what they are to PROVE to my friends that fairies ARE real.' I hope this story and the others I tell are giving her an ability to be imaginative, but maybe I am just setting her up for therapy in the future.
This spring while walking to school, as the magnolias began to bloom again, my daughter said, 'look mum the fairies believe it is truly spring .... tell me the story again.'
XO
This was an interesting prompt but a letter to myself past or present was not really something I wanted to share on my blog. I did want to do writing as the creative project today so here it goes.
This is a little story I started telling my youngest daughter in the spring of 2011. It was the first spring in our new home and we would see the little covers that would drop off the magnolia buds as the bloom when we would walk to and from school. She picked one up one day and asked me what it was. This is what I said:
They are a sign of spring. The best sign of spring! It means the fairies have decided it is spring. You see darling, these are the fairies winter wings. That is why they are fuzzy and heavy. They protect the fairies and keep them warm through the winter. It makes it a little harder for the fairies to fly, because the wings are bulky, but it is the best protection in the biting cold. Then when it is truly spring the fairies meet at dusk in the magnolia trees, just as the flowers are about to bloom, and have the spring celebration where they shed their winter wings in favour of the light gossamer wings you usually associate with fairies. In the morning the fairies have gone off to sleep and the only thing left behind are the winter wings.
For the next few days she asked me to tell the story again and again as we walked to and from school. Then she said, 'So it's true mum there really ARE fairies. GREAT! I am taking these wings to school to show my friends and I am telling them what they are to PROVE to my friends that fairies ARE real.' I hope this story and the others I tell are giving her an ability to be imaginative, but maybe I am just setting her up for therapy in the future.
This spring while walking to school, as the magnolias began to bloom again, my daughter said, 'look mum the fairies believe it is truly spring .... tell me the story again.'
XO
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Day 91:
"Use dry coffee beans, dry or wet coffee grounds, or even liquid coffee (in a cup or not) to create something today."
Made this owl from the prompt. I am totally a night owl and because of that I need at LEAST one coffee before I can function in the morning. (just ask my kids)
After I took the picture I realised how yucky the coffee in the cups looks. That is because I used what was left in the French press from the earlier in the day and diluted it with water so there would be enough.
Made this owl from the prompt. I am totally a night owl and because of that I need at LEAST one coffee before I can function in the morning. (just ask my kids)
After I took the picture I realised how yucky the coffee in the cups looks. That is because I used what was left in the French press from the earlier in the day and diluted it with water so there would be enough.
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