Day 85: (Revisit)

First things first.  I have not fallen off the face of the earth.  As mentioned earlier, my camera was going on vacation with one of my children.  It came back safe and sound but I have been inundated with sick kids for the last four weeks.  Plus I had a bad, BAD, reaction to antibiotics.  I was creating quite regularly through it all just not blogging.  Hopefully things will go smoothly for a while now.  As I have mentioned in earlier blogs this is really about me being creative often but I can't cope with more pressure and deadlines so my 365 projects will take more than a year, hopefully not more than two.

Day 85 took longer to complete than most my projects.  I had to do the work over a few days.  It is also my biggest projects to date.  I took a quote and painted it on a 46cm x 71cm canvas with acrylics.  I loved it so much that I hung it on the wall of my porch where the fall wreath and winter sled usually go.

For the record it does hang straight I just can't seem to take a straight picture.

Creativity without posts

Sorry there will be no posts for a couple of weeks.  I am still creating but my camera is off on an overseas adventure and will not return for another 10 days.  If I manage to locate the cable for my other camera I will start posting.  Please stand by.

Cheers

Day 87:

"What can you do with a candle?"

One of the ideas under today's prompt was to draw with a candle and reveal the image using water colour.  This is what I decided to do.  Unfortunately the only candle I had was a tea light.  It was bulky and a bit difficult to draw with.  Then once you drew it was hard to see where you had drawn and of course impossible to erase.  I decided to draw an elephant in honour of my son who is off to Kenya to work with Free the Children for 10 days.
Two tries.  I don't really love either one, but here they are:

Day 86:

"Decorate a cake, pie or cookie."

Well this was done earlier in February.  In all the chaos when I wasn't creating, my youngest had a birthday.  She asked for a Chameleon Cupcake Cake to take in to share with her class.  Not knowing what I was getting myself into I agreed.  Then I googled 'cupcake cakes' and found out they were pretty fancy.  My solution was to make mini cupcakes, arrange them into a chameleon shape, ice the whole thing and then decorate it.

Looks a bit like an alien.  Last year's cake was much better (yes my daughter is a fan of Chameleons). If I ever get my pictures off the camera (cable was lost in the move) I will add that cake here. 

Day 85:

"Work with words.  Make an image with just words or letters."

Please stand by.  I need a bigger canvas for this project and my youngest is home from school sick.  My plan is to get one on the weekend.

Cheers