Creative Chaos

Please Stand by . . . Creative Jewelry Muse on Board!

For the past week I have been in the process of designing a couple of beaded necklaces and unfortunately because of space constraints I’m using our dining room table as a temporary beading area.

The good news is I unpacked all my beading supplies and found all kinds of goodies I had forgotten about. I had purchased some beads for a pair of earrings about four years ago and stashed them away for safe keeping and completely forgot about them.

I got so excited about finding the beads I just had to sit down and make the earrings. They are made with Poppy & Maple Jasper, Carnelian, Botswana agates, turquoise beads with sterling silver spacers.

Sacred Source – Earrings by Rose

thought for the day; “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw

Eat Dessert First

Yesterday was a cold, blustery rainy day. Imagine my surprise when I found a flier neatly tucked under our front door inviting us to an ice cream social. I don’t know about you, but ice cream is the last thing on my mind when the weather is so dreary and cold.

The funny thing is, later on, we couldn’t stop thinking about ice cream! lol Hopefully by the time the event takes place in two weeks, the sun will be shining and the weather much nicer than it has been.

However, for me, there is an upside to all the rain. It gives me more time to explore and let my creative wild woman out to play. The mixed media collage below is what happens when some Japanese stamps, gesso, newsprint and one rain crazed baby boomer woman with a glint in her eye meet on a blank canvas. I had such a great time I started two more collages.

Yes, for every season there is a time to play, to create and eat dessert first!

See You There – Mixed Media Collage -8 x 10 inches on canvas

thoughts for the day; “Nourish your eye and spirit with inspiring things. They will bloom with your tending.” – SARK

“The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.” – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Out with the old, in with the new

For me Spring is always a good time to start new projects and today seemed like the perfect day to give my blog a new face lift. So here it is!

I am still in the process of dreaming up new things I can add to it later.  Of course, there are some minor things that still need to be done.

Yesterday,  I took some photographs while I was on my morning walk. Here are two that I would like to share with you. Can you guess what the second photograph is?

Photo #1

Photo #2

Happy New Year

1st January. Early in the morning, the sky is gloomy and gray with rain. As  I drink my tea, I find myself trying to ignore the chaos of boxes stacked behind my chair as I write this post.

Over the holidays, I finally unpacked most of my art supplies. I’m still in the process of organizing everything and trying to figure out where some of my brushes disappeared to? … lol

Our new place is smaller so I carved out a little niche  for myself  in our bedroom for my art table & supplies. It’s nice and cozy!

I’m sketching and painting for the first time in ages, and feeling better for getting back into the swing of things.

Sketch of Kuan Yin Lamp – Tombow Mono 100 # 2B & #3B

Morning Warm Up – Digital using Painter 7

Art

I love this video by Andrea Dorfman, inspired by the the song “Art” by Tanya Davis.

Andrea is one of Canada’s most promising and truly gifted independent young filmmakers.

It’s all about Art!

thought for the day;

“In order for my work to continue to evolve, I become involved in playfulness and take the opportunity to look at the ‘what-ifs.’ Whatever the result, it expands my vision by letting go of who I think I am and discovering the spirit within.” – John Denver