Thursday 30 April 2015

I've Taken the Plunge!

There is an art exhibition being planned at a local art gallery in August, The Qube, and they are asking for people to submit their art works, so........... I've decided to submit three pieces. The theme or title of the exhibition is "Life - An Altered Perspective." This is open to all artists, can be painted, photos, embroidery, pottery, mixed media. Any creative method.

I have decided on three pieces that have a similar theme and colour. A tree. I've had them printed onto ChromaLuxe aluminium. I am eagerly awaiting their delivery. I actually boobed and really wanted just lustre aluminium prints but hopefully I won't be disappointed with the finished prints.

These are the three I have chosen.




It will be a new experience for me to see my digital musings in print on a gallery wall. I'm excited and nervous both at the same time.

Sunday 26 April 2015

Creative Mojo is Missing!

Well, as I'm sure all artists and creative folk can attest to, my creative mojo has gone AWOL. Some days I can create like someone possessed and then my creative mojo clears off. It doesn't normally go for long but this time it seems to have taken an extended holiday. Hopefully it's sight seeing and finding lots of images and ideas for me when it gets back.

At times like this I actually do what got me into digital art in the first place..... I create digital scrapbook pages. And sometimes my creative spark appears for a short while. Here is a single page of a walk along a canal not far from where I used to live. I also created just a single artsy page from one of the photos.

The walk was along part of the Llangollen Canal at Whixall, North Shropshire. UK.


 
 
 
Off to have a play with a tutorial. Bye for now..

Thursday 2 April 2015

Abstracts.

I find abstract art hard to do. Funny really, as pretty much anything goes but I still find it crazy hard. Usually when I create a piece, I have a finished image in my mind or I know what I want it for. Maybe a card for somebody or a card design somebody else might like. But abstract art isn't something I'd normally put on my wall.

I've done a few I'm actually quite pleased with and if I had wall space would quite happily put them on a wall.

 




 


Off to play with another technique so toodle pip for now.

Watercolour and Sketch

I have been learning how to create a watercolour and sketch image from a photo. I've used two tutorials for this technique. One by Katie Pertiet and the other by Sebastian Michaels as part of the Awake! course. Simple to do but not so easy to get it to look good. Here are a few of my images created using this technique.




 
 
I'm rather fond of this technique myself. It lends itself to so many different styles of compositions.
 
 
I'm going to work on abstracts next. 

AWAKE!

Well, I really can't believe it has been so many weeks since I last updated my blog. I've moved house, totally redecorated the new house, had a massive clearout of old, unwanted items or things that no longer serve my purpose. The charity shops just love me at the moment.

I find that having too many crafts that I want to do actually leads to stagnation. I feel torn between them all, guilty because I can't do them all so instead of actually being crafty and creating I don't actually achieve or do anything. Unfinished things have been passed onto somebody who wants to finish them, supplies have been passed to those who can use them. I'm not finished yet but it does feel like a weight is being lifted off my shoulders.

At the beginning of the year I made a vow to learn something new everyday and to create something everyday. It might be as simple as a cake, a plant planted in a pot or container, or better still my digital art.

In January, I also enrolled on a course by Sebastian Michaels called AWAKE - Living the (Photo)-Artistic Life. I have done his previous course and learnt so much but AWAKE is proving to be so very inspiring.

To be honest, this last 12 months for me have been one of the darkest moments in my life, ever but thanks to Sebastian and his unwavering belief in me and my creative abilities, I have kept going. Creating, learning and making art. I am now out the other side and I feel great. Still small hiccups now and again and days where my creative mojo goes AWOL but mostly I'm good and living a photo artistic life.

I'd like to share a few images I've done recently and not so recently.

Just playing with layers and blend modes to see what happens.