Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Day 32:

"Make something ephemeral.  Can you create something using a materiel that will dissipate quickly, like soap bubbles, smoke, butter on a griddle, or cream in coffee?"

This was hard.  First trying to make soap bubbles with products that don't produce a lot of bubbles was a challenge.  Then making my tree from the bubbles proved difficult as the moving of the water to shape the tree would continue to tear it apart as well.   Trying to dry my hands quickly to handle the camera for a picture.  And finally the picture itself of white bubbles in a cream bathtub.  In hindsight I should have added some food colour to the water to give a better background for the tree.  Anyway these are the results:




If you use your imagination you can see the tree.  Cheers

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Day 31:

"Make a path for people to follow and invite people to try it out."

Okay, okay I cheat a lot, or maybe I look at things differently, is that so bad when you are being creative? 

I decided to paint a path today.  It is another one of those pictures that got stuck in my head.  I used water colours and a black sharpie maker. 





When my youngest looked at it she said "I love the forest it looks like you could walk right into it".  So with that; I invite you to try out my path, you never know where it will lead or what you might see.

Day 30:

"Play time.  Work with toys: If you don't have any, borrow some from a friend with kids, and maybe even work with the kids!"

I wanted to celebrate a bit when I got to day 30.  Woot woot!  Unfortunately it happened Saturday and it is now Tuesday but I was excited to get to day 30 anyway. 

As soon as I read the instructions I immediately thought LEGO!!!!  I love building with Lego.  I hate stepping on the little pieces but it still is a staple in our home.  I made a tree with regular bricks and a few of the fancy shaped ones.  I wish I could have found more of the green rounded pieces that I think are used for Lego trees, but I liked how it turned out.

Day 29:

"Make a disguise for yourself, a friend, a pet, or and object.  See if you can fool anyone with it."

Let me start off by saying I am behind on posting again and will post up 3 today and 3 tomorrow.  I am trying to get in a rhythm for blogging after I have completed the projects but some days (especially weekends) my plan goes awry. 

Now onto the project:  I wanted to make a cool bird masquerade mask but I really didn't have any supplies so I drew a picture of one.  A bit of a cheat I am sure.  I coloured it with crayons.  I definitely didn't fool anyone with it.

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Day 28:

"Dreamland.  Use a recent dream as inspiration for what you do today."

I don't know if I exactly follow the instructions today.  I am not sure where the vision for this water colour came from.  perhaps it was a dream or something I witnessed once but I had a small sketch with colour labels in my idea book for sometime.  Like my bridge earlier it was just something I had in my mind to paint.  So here it is.