Creative Radar

"Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. "
Jason Mraz

I made a list of artsy stuff I wanted to do late last year (stamped on index cards, of course). This is a refresher. I think it makes sense ot look at this every few months. These are not resolutions. There is always some period of time in front of you, time to do creative stuff - so to think in advance about what you want to learn, what you want to try, what you want to buy, makes sense.

Most importantly, I will continue writing my "3 good things" list every night before going to sleep. I did this almost every night of 2011 and it has helped immensely, in seeing things more positively.

Here's what I'd like to do... 

1. Draw mandalas + cityscapes
2. Paint on canvas
3. Make art journal pages
4. Continue experimenting with photography in my art journal pages
5. Experiment with varied focus in photography
6. Develop 2 new art journaling workshops on Daisy Yellow
7. Make 2 zines
8. Teach a creative writing class at my daughters' school
9. Sew daisy journals + little quirky art quilts
10. Learn a basic journal binding technique
11. Help my daughters make blurb books with their stories
12. Frame some of my daughters' artwork
13. Make a blurb book of my art
14. Sell prints of my artwork
15. Get a fountain pen and experiment
16. Do some monthly GPP Street Team Crusades
17. Do CED2012 and AEDM2012 with Creative Every Day
18. Read 25 books {my 2012 Book List}

What do you want to do? What do you want to learn? What do you want to buy?

Repeat.Repeat.Repeat

This post is not about faerie houses.

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Mixed Media: Secret World

{a new art journal page on heavy cardboard}

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Cityscapes

6x18" strathmore watercolor journal, pitt pen

when i saw this wide wirebound pad for at hobby lobby, it seemed perfect for a cityscape

I've been working on this off and on for a month, usually in coffee shops.

inky collaboration

“The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.”
Ann Patchett

My older daughter (12) was home from school with a cold last week (better now) so we collaborated on some inky wonderfulness. Sick days shoud be restful, but they don't need to be boring! We used 4 different colors of j. herbin inks. Here's a link to the j. herbin perle noir at jet pens, it's deep-deep purple.  

How lush are these inks? We moved the inks around with chopsticks, calligraphy pens and water. Here are more of our experiments creating abstracts wth india inks.

carving stamps the other way

{i carved some new stamps}

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