Living a creative life paintings, fabric art photo inspiration

 

For this week's creativity round up I start with 2" scraps of fabric... oh it's not done, it's just a start using pieces cut off (then resewn) a larger scrap project. The eye scrap came from a friend in Maryland who used that fabric to sew scrubs for her nurse brother, then she gave me the cuts from that. 

years ago now

no piece seems to be too small to throw away when you see potential in the everyday

I was inspired this week by the Eagles I watch,  sitting in front of a mighty background

made me want to paint it...

and these will eventually be painted in gouache  

one of the mixed media workshops this week used gouache, this is my attempt

which looks like local views here actually. 

 Back to some sewing.... For my EPP project, the hexie of spirals, I am catching up on RSC colors, this time I'm almost done with this month's green scraps piece. It's in sections as I progress

next up is doing yellow from two months ago

I am not sure how they will come together when all colors are done but here are two blocks pressed. I'm sure it will morph with more colors

speaking of colors and fabric, I am also catching up on my other scrappy project for the year

another green one

I've done three green, three red, and three blue so far, 

It's fun to sew, I need to do red and pink next

yellow up close

free pattern is online

last week I showed a small quilted component, and said the photo showed a face in it. In person it looks like a tulip or a lake but the image looked like a face to me

so I printed it out and colored in what I saw. 

Two workshops on mixed media had us paint backgrounds and then find the bunny, or face

 

 

I saw one, my husband saw another so I penciled in both

then added more paint. The teacher painted all the background white, but I didn't want to so...

inspired by mama and her babies in our yard

then scribble with water soluble crayon and find a face

became this

and for some reason I painted bunny and lady on one small journal page... 

and I tried collage again, this time on a full paper... magazine pages torn... the yoga woman a balloon and some mountains... pulled paper off a kleenex box for the chrysanthemum like flowers, 

a painted over page of akashic writing done with my caligraphy pen, hearts were on a cake in a magazine. I painted over the woman with caran d'ache crayon and prisma color pencil, smeared on some gesso and white gouache. 

In the words of Stevie Wonder, isn't she pretty?  Filled in her hands with colored pencil, filled in eyes with ink, cheeks with color pencil and now it's a form of myself for my birthday week upcoming.

Happy Birthday inked in with colored pencil... 

I may not be this young or thin or even blond now but I remember being those things. I remember doing tai chi on the banks of the Hillsborough River on Saturdays, I can still feel energy if I try. 
We will all age, hopefully we will be a sum of all we've lived through, wiser, kinder, more understanding and still finding ways to create beauty

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