My Creative Space

Last week wasn't very productive for me: we're living like in an a storage room because of all the things my oldest son left here. I have started to sort them out, but it is a hard task for me, as dealing with things and having to make thousands of decisions about their use and place is a total energy drainer for me...


As I said last time, I have started a new art journal though. And this is its cover so far. Might come back and add something to it later.

This is the front inside cover. The initial inspiration came from a live stream with Tee Thompson, but than I started to see those images emerging from the background without any idea, what it was. Now, it seams to me, it must be Pan and all the symbolism connected to him.

And there is one more spread I consider finished in my art journal. It was inspired by this equinox doll I received from the lovely Palma Rea along with a beautiful tag, pieces of craft paper and some tissue paper in a gorgeous lilac color the doll was wrapped in.

So I started my spread gluing down pieces of that tissue paper, taping on the tag and playing with paints trying to capture all the different colors from the doll. Later I used a flower stamp made by myself encouraged by the 52 Play Dates' videos by Jan Fox. And the spread was finished on a sunny note boosted by the gorgeous spring weather here and my body starting to feel better after I restarted to take supplements it needed.

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My Creative Space

Last week was a really busy and stressful one: had a couple of technically tough translation projects and one of my sons was moving to Canada and visiting us together with his partner on Saturday (and leaving loads of his stuff in our tiny shabby place). And the capricious spring weather wasn't helping me to recover at all: I was feeling better on the sunny days, but have almost no energy on the dull and rainy ones :(
So not much of artsy activities completed in my creative space to show off today, just a couple of art journal pages

 Saying good bye...

Chapters begin and come to an end, but  the way goes on

 

Reminder to my freaking out ego: I am, who I am, no matter, what anybody is thinking of me :)

 Inspired by this video in Seed Journals with Milliande Demetriou

   

Feels unfinished, I might go back to this one some day in the future

And there is another old work book prepared to be my next art journal. YAY! 

I 'm sorry for the bad images again: not much of a good daylight here in the North for now.


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My Creative Space

Lately, I've been pretty busy with translations, so not much artistic creations completed in my creative space last week. Just a couple of art journal spreads:

Wording: 30 years... But we - the flowers and the crazy ones - don't care (my eldest son turned 30 last week)

Devoted to my 5 lost babies

A card for my only aunts name day

A needle felted angel for the Equinox doll swap on Milliande's art community for women

 I even tried to work at a painting over collage for a class by Tamara Laporte. But, also the technique is pretty familiar to me, it isn't easy, as too much of intention at the beginning really hinders my creativity... I want to learn to take the classes just as impulses and to let my creation to develop on its own way. So I'm behind, but not giving up :D

And sorry for the bad images: we don't have much daylight here in the North for now.


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My Creative Space

The last week has been pretty emotional and productive for me. So there are a couple of finished spreads and sheets.

A self portrait inspired by Kylie Pepyat-Fowler's classes in the Life Book course

A tribute to my first ever sold painting

A tribute to the five little rat boys born in our home and passed to the big world last Friday

A spread inspired by the Book of Days with Effy Wild

I even tried to use some home made molding paste inspired by the Pop your ART out with Jeanette House...

...and made some paper flowers learning something new to teach in my workshops at school.
The last couple of days I've been pretty busy with classes and translations, but there is still a new spread starting to emerge in the short brakes.

Obviously, there is no way back: making art is a part of my everyday life I just can't live without. :)


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My Creative Space

Last week, the main event in my creative space was the absolutely unexpected sale of my dream board. One of my Facebook acquaintances discovered it in my album over there and was ready to pay a fair price to get it. I'm still feeling excited about that and a bit of nervous, as it's my first ever painting sold and shipped to another continent. I really hope all my creative efforts in preparing it for the long way and the new life in somebodies home would pay off and make the new owner happy and me as well :)
Last week, I have left an art group on FB I didn't feel well in. The time and energy I spent over there I'm using now to be more active in a group around Milliande Demetriou.

The cover of my new art journal...

 

...and a couple of spreads in it...

 are inspired by Milliande's Seed Journal Series

The other spreads of last week I consider finished were inspired by my daughter.

In this one I incorporated my portrait drawn by her (not that my face really looks like that, but I think, this image depicts my inner self pretty precise). And in the envelope there is a love letter written to me by my daughter.

The inspiration for this one came from all these stickers, my daughter had put all over my screen and desk, while I was at work.

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My Creative Space

This week, our absolutely unexpectedly gotten rat babies turned 3 weeks and had to be separated to not get another litter in the next future. Now we have to find new homes for the most of them.

And I really wouldn't mind, if my health would have been better.
But, never the less, I have arted a good load, as I still didn't have any translation jobs to work at, and work at school had settled in.
A dream board has been started and finished inspired by the one by Tamara Laporte

And another spread for my Life Book is emerging inspired by Bonnie Rose Bryan's class

And there are a couple of new spreads in my art journal, most of them -  inspired by Effy Wild's Book of Days and the life of the group of more than 1 000 women around this project

Pippa Gore sent me some happy mail

Facebook is wonky and many of us can't access our main chat group

Hoping...

Surrendering...

The last one incorporates an image I've painted inspired by Amy McDonald's live stream and is the back inside cover of the journal, so I have started a new one! YAY! Always love to do that!

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My Creative Space

I'm not having any translations to work at this week, so I'm enjoying plenty of rest and "me" time: sleeping in, watching art videos and live streams, hanging out in art groups on Facebook and Ning. I'm playing in my art journal as well, but not too much, this is more a receptive and contemplating week for me.

Some of the pages, I consider finished (for now?):

Inspired by Louise Gale's Tangerine Tango Color Challenge

Inspired by Traci Bautista's Doodles Unleashed workshop and Effy Wild's Livestream

Inspired by Book of Days with Effy Wild

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My Creative Space

This week, I'm pretty busy with another translation and the beginning of a new semester at school, but feeling better than during the first 10 days of the year :)

I manage to art in the breaks along with Effy Wild and her Book of Days ...

 ... and Tamara Laporte and her "Lifebook".

I even created my first ever ATC for a challenge by Rachelle Panagarry.

And I knit ruffled scarves, while watching movies before going to bed. :)

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My Creative Space

My creative space is a pretty abandoned mess for now, as there is a translation to be finished until tomorrow :(


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My Share for Today - Today I'm Going to Start Living As An Artist

1. I’m going to listen with my senses.

2. I’m going to take slow, free steps so the Muse has opportunity to guide.

3. I’m going to own my decisions with Grace and not Ego. [Which means, mistakes are welcome.]

4. I’m going to remember the noise and the emptiness subside in direct proportion to my listening. [See #1]

5. I’m going to take risks and obey desires, trusting the voice within to protect or leave me vulnerable as appropriate.

6. I’m going to sit with my brokenness.

7. I’m going to create “just because” art. ... Mandy

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