I wasn’t inspired by this, I felt blocked the only thing that kept coming to my mind were lights at an intersection. How this has anything to do with corners I am not entirly sure.
After I drew the bold colors with my new oil crayons I drew the black intersecting lines. Leading to a rather bold and bright composition.
Intersection, that’s the point in life I am at this moment.
I had a job I really loved in the family company. At one point I got a new boss, I tried it for a year, but it wasn’t working. So I left.
I decided to take some time to figure out what I really wanted to do next. That’s where the photoshop, illustrator and indesign courses come in. Something I always wanted to learn but never had time for.
I started with cutting photo’s (used in the middle) and later on decided to make it in Illustrator (and photoshop). A good exercise to learn the programs and be creative!
I am still going round not exactly sure which exit to take, but I am positive that in time I’ll know what to do!
Take care,
;-) Papilio
I LOVE the color yellow. Yellow makes me happy. when I am a grouch I wear yellow. When I feel angry, I look up, put a smile on my face and say the word YELLOW. LOL. I learned that in some seminar a long time ago – so say a happy word with a smile on your face.
I am a “nice” positive person by nature; I alwas smile at strangers and am always nice to everyone I come in contact with. For this entry, I journaled some of my favorite quotes on being happy and spreading happiness. I was actually torn between using these favorite quotes or one of my VERY favorite song lyrics written by Glen Campbell:
Let me be a little kinder. Let me be a little blinder. To the faults of those about me, let me praise a little more.
Let me be, when I am weary, just a little bit more cheery. Think a little more of others and a little less of me.
Let me be a little braver when temptation bids me waver. Let me strive a little harder to be all that I should be.
Let me be a little meeker with a brother that is weaker. Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.
Let me be, when I am weary, just a little bit more cheery. Let me serve a little better those that I am striving for.
Let me be a little meeker with the brother that is weaker. Think a little more of others and a little less of me.
I may have to do another entry…
Lots of paint and modeling paste and stamps and some lace and a dainty little daisy, my favorite flower, which also makes me happy.
((The color is not 100% accurate – ugh. Brought me back to my days of color correcting in an art studio – yellows are always so difficult!))
have a happy day!
I’m working through a book called “52 Projects” by Jeffrey Yamaguchi, and the assignment last week was to take a ride on the train to the end of the line. No trains around here—I live in Northern California! Instead I took a ride on the town shuttle and created this layout in my art journal to document the process:
Exceprt from the journaling:
“There aren’t a lot of reasons to take public transportation in Los Gatos. The SCVTA buses pass by nearly empty…recently, though, the town instituted a free shuttle service—little buses like those you take to your Hertz rental car are wrapped in a cheerful white and blue, and cruise up and down… I took one today… had meant to walk, but the bus appeared, so I hopped on. Doesn’t matter, really, how you wrap it—Buses stink.”
I like the balance of this page between the graphics and the words. I printed out a copy of the bus route on transparency and adhered it to the page, but even after hours it just smeared off. (I have an ink jet printer). Any suggestions on this? Do I need to spray some sort of fixative on top, or reverse-print and adhere the transparency backward?
Thanks for looking…
xoxox
LainE
For this week’s prompt, I decided I would try to use the power of positive thinking and act in a positive manner towards strangers. Although this is somewhat contrary to my New York City upbringing and disposition, I found that I was able to make somewhat of a difference to four strangers I met.
corners – i’ve always thought of myself as a pretty organised person, so imagine my surprise when i find that once again i have just gone with the flow on this one!
I punched out a square and wrote around the corners, and just “Mused” on what corners and turning them meant to me… i think this journal has helped me turn the corner of creativity, i don’t feel like everything has to be planned out just so, make and do and see what comes out of it!!
I had trouble deciding how to get this page done… in the end just went with the flow and I’m pretty pleased with the result. I did a self portrait sketch in pencil and charcol… then using my face colour painted the bottom of the page and highlighted the sketch… the colour block at the bottom kinda acted like a black board so i just wrote down random things that occurred to me when I asked myself: “Who am I?”
I am a little behind – I finished this last weekend but have had computer problems since so not been able to scan and upload but here it is now. It took me a while to think of something about myself that would never change and typically…I can now think of several more things that won’t change! Anyway, the page I made is about myself and glasses – I will always need them. The little glasses on the page I have had for ages, waiting for me to do a page about wearing glasses and I’m pleased to have finally been able to use them – they’re quite chunky on the page and quite weighty too but they glued on well with Pritt liquid gel.
Now to have some fun pressing on with weeks 3 and 4 :)
camouflage your fears. i dont know if you would really call being lazy a fear. but really it is for me. see, i feel like i am a really hard worker. but sometimes i get so side tracked by my pure laziness. i get pulled into a trance. i get stuck in ruts. i am blaming my laziness. i need to get over it. i need to camouflage it. i need to just acknowledge the fact that i do have a tendancy to be lazy and do everything in my power to push through. laziness happens, but my goal would be to not let it control me on a daily basis.
This was fun! I have been waiting to cut some large letters out for ages, but haven’ found the need.
I love the idea of smiling at people – i reckon that perhaps they will then go on to give someone else a smile too.
This week I’ve cleared out some clothes and toys for charity, i phoned a lady up thaat I’ve never phoned before, because she seemed so down, let people in the queue of traffic in the car. I reckon some people might think I’ve been quite crazy, wearing this inane grin here, but it’s been fun.
I looked through a local news paper and cut out a few phrases, which I thought were very positive and stuck them in, to remind me that the real world is not so bad – one is a quote from a local lady that was just 100!
