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My Creative Self
I scanned my drawing and made copies so that I can try out different ways to colour the image. This is the first attempt, which I worked with a little in my picture editing software. Totally great fun ... read more
Drawing and Acknowledging My Creative Self
The writing bug has taken off - so much so that I am a little in awe of myself :) but there isn't much to show here other than a word count...
Tonight though I started trying to capture the image I have been percolating of my creative self. It's interesting to be so limited with art materials - most of them are in storage - but I think it is a little liberating too because I don't have to faff ... read more
Doodle Play
Perfect timing - the latest issue of Mslexia plopped through my letterbox today. I'm always intending to submit work every time the new issue appears, but I always manage to put it off... I was struck by something Maggie O'Farrell said in her interview - "I have to be disciplined to do the washing or do the tax return or the hoovering... but I don't need discipline to write, not at all." Clearly I've got things quite the wrong way around because I'm having to discipline myself to write ... read more
Picking Up The Pencils
My hand made sketch book sat on my desk for most of the day. I picked it up occasionally and marvelled at my creation, felt good about the fact that I had motivated myself to just make it. The cover looks too white and tidy, I want it to resemble the tattered old sketchbook I made many years ago and filled with bits and pieces of ideas, but I want this one to be filled with better drawings. As thrilled as I was with the idea of the new sketchbook, I didn't go straight to it and begin drawing ... read more
Exploring Red
I have been exploring red in doodle drawings, SoulCollage, meditation and this is also the phase leading up to my Red Moon... The first part of this journey began when I made this SoulCollage card: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="306" caption="Muladhara SoulCollage Card"][/caption] This card was one of those cards I began with intent and then took a long time to finally glue down the images. I had collected a large pile of red images, snakes and dragons - and eventually whittled ... read more