Creativity starts with self-care
In order to bring creativity to projects undertaken for others I foster my own creativity through the practice of arts journaling and I share some of my work with our creative soul-searchers through mail art.
Art Journaling
Secret Identity
Another page for the A Layer a Day group on Facebook. This week’s theme was “secret identity” or that identity which we hide from the rest of the world. I
I wear many hats (mixed media)
The question was “How do you identify yourself on first introduction”? My mixed media response is, “I wear many hats”. Like many people, how I introduce myself varies situationally so
2020 Closure
I just wanted to float away from this year when I started to think about the topic of “closure”. Like many others around the planet, it has been a year
Rainbow Warrior
This quickie page was themed on the idea of a personal rainbow. I started with black gesso and later scrubbed on white and blue paint with a baby wipe. The
Red is a Joker Colour
I don’t really have a colour I “hate” but red is just so loud and bossy. It screams in bold caps and demands to be the star of every show.
I Love Purple
I absolutely do love the colour purple. Layer 1 Lindy’s magicals over gesso. Perhaps it is because it was the compromise colour in my childhood. I wanted to wear pink
Blue Moon
I sometimes like to work on black gesso pages. This page was inspired by a T shirt design that I saw someone wearing in a photo right after I heard
Tree
More explorations on the “roots” theme. I stayed with negative space painting for this page, beginning with using a collaged base, coloured with inks. I then over-painted with acrylics and
Journeys on the Night Train
Another experiment in negative painting. I was inspired by dream journeys where I am on a train and see scenes of places I have visited or lived in or simply
Persephone
This weeks topic was “Gifts from our Roots”. I was musing on the mixed blessings and curses from my own roots when I thought about the Persephone myth, one that
Build and Bloom
This week I reclaimed a page by using black gesso on it and did an organic and inorganic pair of riffs on the spiral form. Began with black gesso Added
New Wants
After decluttering and organizing this month thoughts turned to just why it is that we accumulate all this stuff. With mind like a butterfly, the new, shiny does appeal.
