Day 25:

"Work with nature.  Go to your yard or a nearby park and collect materials to work with."

It is late autumn so finding materials that aren't brown is a bit of a challenge.  I decided to raid my brother-in-laws garden as he has a more established and natural garden. Then I just arranged my finds on a white background.  I like the way it turned out.

Day 24:

"It's not easy being green.  Work only with green-coloured materials today.  Try working on a green surface for a real challenge"

Green in a nature theme should be really easy but I just couldn't seem to come up with anything creative today.  So I found a bright green piece of paper and a green Sharpie.  No real inspiration seemed to come so I doodled some Kerropi inspired frogs. 

Day 23:

"Waste not.  Dig in a recycling bin for all of today's materials."

The inspiration for today's project came from the art being done in my daughter's grade 1/2 class.  They were drawing owls and ripping paper to glue on them.  These were the drawing instructions given to me by the teacher.

I chose to rip up newspaper and glue it on my owl drawn on the back of a cereal box.  I think the kids pictures may have turned out sweeter with their coloured construction paper and creative owls but here is mine.

Day 22:

"Create a bridge. Connect two things in a creative way.  It could be small enough for an amoeba or big enough for an elephant to cross it."

Well I just realised that yesterday's post had nothing to do with nature.  I got really caught up in a love story and forgot my theme.  Today I went a little off course as well.  There is a foot bridge I cross often when I am heading down town.  Whenever I view the bridge from the up river crossing I always envision painting it.

I have wanted to paint this particular painting for many months now but I have just never taken the leap.  Today's bridge inspiration gave me the push I needed.  Of course in my vision of painting this bridge it is not my usual water colour but a bold acrylic in primary colours with a purple sky.  Weird what I see some days but I was happy to paint this finally.  So my natural angle today is that this is a wonderful natural space that I love to stop and look at but truly I was just happy to paint my vision of the foot bridge.

Day 21:

"Write a ten-word love story.  Bonus: Illustrate it!"

Writing isn't my strong suit but when I started out on this creative journey I decided I would really try and work form the ideas given in the Noah Scalin's book (365: A daily Creative Journal   Make Something Everyday and Change Your Life!).  So I took a stab at writing my love story and illustrated it.

Ten Word Love Story:

Met

Married

Kids

Good and Bad

We Remain in Love

Cheers!