Have you check out the Art Resource Hub, if not you would have missed the FREE monthly digital downloads that you can use in your art journal and creative projects.
Increase your Creativity and Unlock your Hidden Talents
Have you check out the Art Resource Hub, if not you would have missed the FREE monthly digital downloads that you can use in your art journal and creative projects.
Creating Fabric Beads: A Sustainable and Creative Project
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This Art Journal uses digital papers I created for my patrons. They also get to see how to put the art Journal together. It's made from one sheet of paper or card. I have used the digital paper and collaged additional onto the covers of the mini journal.
On the pages I also use old artwork, collaged and stamped tags and embellished handmade paper. I have left space in the journal for additional writing or doodling
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I will be resuming my twice monthly book reviews of the books that I have brought over the years and have had a chance to work through them and see how I liked their lessons. I think it is important for us to be continually learning and expanding the mind, especially creatively, there are so many tools, supplies and techniques that you can learn that might add something to your own creative practice.
Todays book is Creative Awakenings by Sherry Gainer
The back reads - what if you could unlatch the doors to your heart and allow yourself to explore hopes and dreams that you haven't visited for a very long time?
Creative awakenings is the key to opening those doors showing you how to use art making to set your intentions creativity coach sherry gainer will guide you through the mile posts of this exciting journey. Creative Awakenings envisioning a life of your dreams through art which is such a lovely way to look at things.
It has got several chapters and in between each chapter a mile mile markers. In the first chapter she talks about how it all came about and connecting with other artists and how she how she contacted with them and building your dream journal. She's also got examples of supplies that you can use and setting yourself up for the journey so the envision process is a specific process that she walks you through step by step.
Check out the video on Amazon for more details HERE
Come and join me for the latest episode of Arts and Wellness Café
I give myself time every day to do what I creatively want to do in the studio. So if you give yourself a portion of time you never then feel like you have been robbed or you haven’t got anything done. I have a range of different things that I would like to try but don’t have the time.
If I schedule a bit of time for myself I can just enjoy doing that thing or enjoy say working in an art journal or playing with a new supply without any pressure and then you still got time to get on with the work but you have to give yourself permission you have to say this is the time that I will schedule for myself and you stick to it.
You must not do other things in that time like going to hang out the laundry but you need to stick to the time that you have chosen.
You will find that you definitely will grow if you start to do it over a period of time, and you can compare to see how much you are getting done and the quality of your work from when you first started
Question of the Week - What one nice thing can you do for yourself this week? This is something you need to think about as we often leave ourselves to last or over look ourselves.
Welcome to this week, the word has been so far 'Perceptive' and it is great to think about how the word relates to our creativity. When you think about what you do creatively how much of it would you say you get a sense that there is more to it than you yourself put in - in regards to effort? Do things click, work out and often give you goosebumps or chills.
It matters not if that is not the case for you at the moment, as there are areas of what you do that you just can't quite explain, and you don't need to (smile).
I started the week off with the podcast and you can listen to the episode HERE or below
Here is one of my recently finished stitched wall hangings.
It is a mixed media piece that includes fabrics, beading, slow stitching and Moringa Wood that has been harvested from my garden and then wood burned.
Join me in the studio for Arts and Wellness Café where we look at more ways in which 'Hopeful' impacts on you health and well-being.
I also share with you two short process videos so that you can look at playing with backgrounds, just using Inktense pencils, collage paper in a journal, you can apply colour to the page and use it when you only have a short time to play.
I also catch up with some of the Life Book taster sessions, it is great to be able to see what the other teachers did for their sessions and here is one that I was able to do Inspired by Eulalia Mejia creating the backgrounds, using gesso and going in a mark making on figures, the one below is what we did in the classroom.
I have been fortunate enough to have been to several art exhibitions over the past few weeks and also and have been one of the exhibiting ar...
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