I've done gone crazy !!!!!
Or have I?????
Feeling very frustrated with myself and with life in general, I've really missed not being creative. By meaning creative I don't mean not doing anything with my hands, I have been knitting recently, and doing some odds and ends, but, not a deep-thought process work. Something that comes from inside....
Well, I've gone and done it this week, I've promised two things: First I offered to PIF (pay if forward) on my French blog, where I promise in the next year I will make something for 3 people who themselves promise to do the same thing on their blog. We have 365 days to do something. So far not many people have answered, so I will include whomever posts here as well and combine from both. The first three who post in my comments page as well as in their blog!!!!! Do not expect anything exceptional, just a little something from the heart.
The other biggie, and here I mean really biggie, is I've registered for the Take it Further Challenge proposed by Sharon B on her blog In a minute ago.
Every month beginning January 1st 2008 she will propose a concept and a color scheme and up to us to work on either or both for the month, showing our progress on our blog. I'll be using this blog to show the works in progress, and sometimes I'll do so as well on the French one, since some French artists will be doing it too I saw. I'm hoping this will get me going. I've been really doing a lot of reading on all sorts of techniques, and so many appeal to me. I hope I'll be able to put them into focus with these exercises, and I hope I'll be able to follow through. What is great with this challenge also, is a lot of thought will be put into everything, and there should be exchanges with artists, many as I've seen so far in the links provided do interesting things. That is really stimulating.
A third project I've involved myself in is the one mentioned in an earlier post , a challeng for Burkina Faso, and for which I've still not done anything, but have been thinking about it..... Ideas move around in my head a lot and then one day it all comes through on cloth. I never or hardly ever do any sketching as I draw as with my feet, and so cannot progress that way. So, lots of trial and error and a lot of undoing...... One of the reasons I'm so slow!!!!
OK , hope this hasn't been too tiresome to read!!! Will try to post more often. Hope more readers come here as well.
All my best
Feeling very frustrated with myself and with life in general, I've really missed not being creative. By meaning creative I don't mean not doing anything with my hands, I have been knitting recently, and doing some odds and ends, but, not a deep-thought process work. Something that comes from inside....
Well, I've gone and done it this week, I've promised two things: First I offered to PIF (pay if forward) on my French blog, where I promise in the next year I will make something for 3 people who themselves promise to do the same thing on their blog. We have 365 days to do something. So far not many people have answered, so I will include whomever posts here as well and combine from both. The first three who post in my comments page as well as in their blog!!!!! Do not expect anything exceptional, just a little something from the heart.
The other biggie, and here I mean really biggie, is I've registered for the Take it Further Challenge proposed by Sharon B on her blog In a minute ago.
Every month beginning January 1st 2008 she will propose a concept and a color scheme and up to us to work on either or both for the month, showing our progress on our blog. I'll be using this blog to show the works in progress, and sometimes I'll do so as well on the French one, since some French artists will be doing it too I saw. I'm hoping this will get me going. I've been really doing a lot of reading on all sorts of techniques, and so many appeal to me. I hope I'll be able to put them into focus with these exercises, and I hope I'll be able to follow through. What is great with this challenge also, is a lot of thought will be put into everything, and there should be exchanges with artists, many as I've seen so far in the links provided do interesting things. That is really stimulating.
A third project I've involved myself in is the one mentioned in an earlier post , a challeng for Burkina Faso, and for which I've still not done anything, but have been thinking about it..... Ideas move around in my head a lot and then one day it all comes through on cloth. I never or hardly ever do any sketching as I draw as with my feet, and so cannot progress that way. So, lots of trial and error and a lot of undoing...... One of the reasons I'm so slow!!!!
OK , hope this hasn't been too tiresome to read!!! Will try to post more often. Hope more readers come here as well.
All my best
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