29 my head

sea rays

Day 29 and I've loved every minute of the past month. Doing my blog has been a great experience for me. Putting an accountability around my creativity, I was afraid may stifle my work, but on the contrary it's freed me up.  Actually sitting down and getting things out of my head has allowed me more space in my head and the freedom to experiment, develop ideas and get to places beyond where I knew, finding new ground. It's never been a chore on the contrary I've sometimes had trouble stopping, it's been a case of me saying, stop go to bed, it's late but then my head is buzzing so much i can't sleep anyway. 
Tomorrow is day 30 and I won't be here to blog, that's not to say I won't be creative just won't get it up here on the last day!  but as I've already decided this is too good to stop it's not going to be my last day. Now all I have to do is work out how I make money doing what I love thanks Beth, and thank you Sam for getting us both enrolled back into our Art.

This 'Sun's rays' illustration began as my painting, then photographed, photoshopped, filtered, layered and generally me just being totally self indulgent with my mac. 
I'm going to put these two up on the white wall gallery and get myself one! in celebration of my 30 days.

sea mood

                                                                                             Inspiration found xxx

28 Art, Fashion & Computers

a media collage and eclectic mix of a painting, a photograph, photoshop and imagination... and no it's not supposed to be me. I couldn't possibly wear that dress, I wouldn't be able to dance!

27 advanced florals

on from 26's pretty florals, experimenting, discovering new techniques and just not wanting to stop yet. See her on greeting cards

26 pretty florals

this textiles print idea followed on from 22 discovering. Using layers and layers of designs  and seeing what happens. Where is the start and when to stop.

25 Painting

         Had a great afternoon painting with Sam, another Shropshire landscape.

                                                      a sea picture

and a sunset reflection pic, which I'm kind of hoping will stay with the reds. It doesn't seem to matter how colourful I start my paintings seem to go into the greens and blues.
Dispite painting next to Sam and her wonderful colour sense. Been a great day though, and all the above still need work on but hopefully won't leave it so long to get the paints back out. Nice messy change to the computer and such a clean way of creating illustrations.

24 comercial

Creating things I think have a commercial possibility area real challenge, but I guess on cafepress I'll get to see if they are, and if not it's easy to change them.

23 Sugar Cubes

 

well today I did spend a lot of time on Sugar Cubes which is a good thing, as I've decided to give it a proper go until Christmas. A new school bag and I do like the design so fingers crossed. An advert for pony mag and loading images into the cafepress site so very busy, positive and the right direction... and the D Sugar Cubes blog too...

22 Discovering

Interesting creative night!. 

wasn't sure how or where to start. Just started to feel like I'm getting somewhere, and too late to carry on. So I'm hoping I can start off tomorrow from where I've just arrived. But that's a surprise for tomorrow so here's what happened tonight. No explanations just some of the images which have helped me discover new techniques.

 

20 & 21 dance figures

20

This first couple belong to yesterday the 20th. I drew them yesterday and then went out to my Tango class.

I'm not happy with him, I like her but the question is, is this a tango couple or not? I asked for opinions and the answer is, it's not. 

21

So the image above has been named 'Dance embrace'  I'm putting it up here so I can see how my dancing figures will improve. I love the simplicity of this one and there's lots of potential to play with the 3 solid colours/shapes. 

as these figures are more suitable to a blues room I've played with the blues and the fire...

now I need to make sure I take a sketch book with me dancing so I can get some better figures. I get much better starting figures working from life.

19 Gallery

took me a while but some of my work up for sale in my whitewall gallery

18 Origami rose

 

                                                   back to flowers and Stephen's rose 

                                      a beautiful folded rose, like some natural origami lesson

 

                                   
                                                          simple rose centre detail

 



                                            complicated layered rose detail

17 Geo bodies

 very late, very tired ...

16 Cheers! lol xx

Well how much fun can I have ?                                                                    


 lots I think, I'm really enjoying myself on here so CHEERS ! xx                        

                     "Bottom's up" I'm going to get a drink.                                        


I also put the fern print in the Floraliscious shop                                              


             on bags, mugs, shot glasses..... OH everything just in case! xxx          

15 measured space

 I now owe an explanation on what I love about men! Well, I really meant mankind. 

When I see photographs  of buildings like these, someone's vision, a drawing become reality. It makes me feel proud to be here, with people who can see and build.

           Simple lines of design, looking weightless, but hiding a strength and power.

                 I love nature, and silence. I love being in the middle of nowhere.
 

  

but I also love what man is capable of when he does the right thing .

What happened to John Galt ?

14 Man

  no time today - all will be explained tomorrow but this is what I love about men!

13 Do I have to stop!? or can I just keep going...

from Stephen's cool, fresh, seedpod to this delicate, pretty, pink print...

stylised version of the seedpod keeping the fresh colours

small repeat

image spliced

small repeat spliced

loosing the small spots, keeping the curved lines

summer coloured seedpods using my own seedpod brush

like coloured bubbles on a dark background

seeds gone leaving the background, diff colours and layers great geometrics!

bit of everything but sticking to one colour

playing with the colours

and another

3 colour simple print version

and blue

the last two mixed together

 

 

 

 

 

more mixed, more layers, more colours

and it's taken me longer to load this blog than it took to design these prints!!!!!