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 Share for Today - Let's Spread Love

Yesterday, I stumbled upon this invitation by Louise Gale and thought to myself: Why not? Let's just relax and add to the happy vibrations on this planet! :)

Update: I was trying to feel happy and relaxed this week end, but my body was fighting a virus and my two teenagers didn't make it easier, so the spread didn't want to become "sunshine and roses and lollipops", no matter, how hard I tried to feel like that! :D

But than, on the Sunday evening I joined Effy Wild and my buddies from the Wild Precious Studio to our Church of Art with arting, chatting and loads of laughing. And this is, how this spread ended up: with funny glittery hearts (in all colors, so me: can never concentrate just on one or some of them :) and the wording: Sorry, dear virus, but my body has to kill you, so you don't kill my body :D

It's Monday afternoon here already, but I'm still grinning every time I look at the spread! :D

My Creative Space

This week was even less creative, as I had to deliver a pretty challenging translation on Monday night and to restart listing new items in my Etsy shops. Managed to list a couple of new flower brooches and to sell some.

Painted my second Fire spread for the e-course "The Elements of Art Journaling" by Effy Wild.

Started a new scetchbook for the 75 Day Sketch Challenge by Brenda Swenson.

Most of the time, I'm preparing for my first mixed media/art journaling workshop. A bit nervous being a novice in it myself, but I can't wait to start sharing, what I have learned in Wild Precious Studio in the last 6 weeks. Got loads of new supplies for it and even managed to make my first 3 alcohol ink and acrylic sprays.

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My Creative Space - Mixed Media on Paper

A week is over again, and it's time to show you, what's going on in my creative space. What can I say? It was a very creative week, and I'm still re-discovering paper and the many fun ways to create on it and with it! The results?


Another Water spread at "The Elements of Art Journaling" by Effy Wild - my first almost only in acrylics!

A lily in oil pastels for the

Illustration Friday theme "Obsession"

A sketch for the

August Sketchbook Challenge theme "Everyday Objects"

Two mixed media pieces for the

Being Creative July theme "Summer"

A small one

and an A3 one

(Especially happy, how this turned out! :)

Now, I'm at a very meditative stage with this mixed media piece, slowly emerging out of loads of different impulses

I'm happy with all this, still having one big issue though: new impulses from all sides seem to swap me in a effervescent ocean of inspiration without any shores and islands. Thank goodness, the challenges have got deadlines! But often I'm too late to participate. For now, it's really hard for me to surface from the swirls and streams of ideas and get to the actual creating. Any suggestions?

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My Creative Space - Painting

Thanks to the generosity of Effy Wild I'm participating in her splendid e-course "The Elements of Art Journaling". I have already blogged about it here, here and here. Now we have got 2 weeks devoted to water and can sit in with our emotions and allow them to transform. This would be my first result of this process.

 Another one is staring to emerge.

Actually, Effy's e-course is having an incredibly deep impact on my life and artist's path. I've started to live out my biggest dream: to speak to people through my art. I must have adopted the negative attitude towards being an artist of the society I grew up in, that I even didn't realize I still have this dream (after all those decades!). Until Effy (and the incredible Maisy!) encouraged me to just start using paper, paints and brushes again and to try out many supplies and techniques unknown to me until now! And I really feel like I'm starting to become a part of the magnificent family of female artists. *happy sob*
Now I'm arting every day and can't imagine, how I could survive all those years without it. This tribute to the life and death of Amy Winehouse is one of the images emerging out of my fresh adventures with simple and cheap painting supplies.

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My creative space - Air

As some of you know, I'm participating in the e-course The Elements of Art Journaling by Effy Wild. And I'm feeling terrific! Effy and the whole e-course family is so loving and supporting in spite of tough times some of us are going through right now!

Here you can see the spreads I worked (and am still working) at this week devoted to Air. Would you like to see my attempts from the first two weeks? I blogged about them here and here. Keen to see at least some spreads of other participants? Our groups at Wild Precious Studio and Facebook are closed, but you can go to our Flickr group and be inspired! Can you believe, it is created by "ordinary chicks" of all ages? If I wouldn't be one of them, I couldn't! But now I just soak in this flow of love and creativity and adventure!
The only hassle is to stop arting to do anything else! Believe me, being a freelancer and a single mom of 2 teens and 2 cats, there would be loads to do every day. Have reduced it to the absolute minimum for these 6 weeks. Thank goodness, my babies don't mind :)!
And actually there is one more headache for me: the lack of art supplies! Effy and the other Wild Precious chicks are sharing so many creative ideas I'd love to try out right away, but you can't do it with thin air! Hoping to get some new stuff to play with next Monday, when I'll be in town (could you, please, cross something for me, so it isn't hell-ish expensive?).


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