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This week’s stitching also comes from urban threads. After the involved unicorn last week i wanted something small and quick. I used stem stitch, fill stitch, and back stitch on this one. The little word is simple. Stitching Circles is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here. As promised, here’s my month of painting faces which is what I chose to do for the month of May for my monthly art projects. I signed up for Judy’s painting faces class the minute I read about it. I love Judy and knew I would love the class. Despite the really unwise move of putting the wrong date on my calendar, I finished the whole class anyway. I started it one month late, when it was already finished. I just got into the class and did each assignment on a day in May. I ended up with a range of faces, some I liked, some I really didn’t. But I got a lot of practice, which is what this is all about. Here are the twenty faces I made:
Another thing I learned in May was that twenty is the perfect number for these projects. Like I mentioned yesterday. I learned the magic of twenty from this project. I need like a million more hours practicing my faces but, for now, I am grateful for this month.
The Handmaid’s Tale was also a book club pick and a great excuse to finally read some Margaret Atwood. This book was well written and must be right there with some of the original masters of dystopian literature. but it was so depressing. So, so freakily depressing. So much so that I felt disturbed for some time after I finished the novel. I am not sure I can recommend it knowing how much it disturbed me. But, of course, she’s a classic and so is this book. So there we are. And I am glad I finally did manage to read it. This week is about Cal Day at Berkeley and David’s paper on quantum physics.
so happy. Savor Project is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
This week’s simple remember this was done for My Mind’s Eye. It was a page where I wrote never ever give up with washi tape. Then I painted the page, and then I stripped the washi and added some black marker. and ta-da!
and here it is without the black marker:
which do you like more? a lot more about this can be found on the My Mind’s Eye blog. Remember This is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here. As I was prepping to write about my month of painting faces, I realized that I never wrote about my month of Lettering Quotes back in April. When I was originally planning my monthly art projects for 2014, one of the ones I really wanted to do was this lettering exercise. I specifically signed up for Lori Vliegen’s class with the intention of doing this. I am really grateful that it had the exact intended effect. I started small with writing in my notebook and unsure of exactly what to do. My first five were basic and warm-up:
then I decided that I was having enough fun to pull out my watercolor papers. Each morning, I would pick a quote that spoke to me, find an image that I thought went with the quote and I sat down to make them both. I then colored it with watercolors and water color pencils.
and, most nights, I used the page and the quote to write my blog post.
some days, I struggled with what to draw but I still wanted to keep going.
Other days I didn’t know how to change things around so it would keep being interesting. But then I realized interesting is not the point. Practice was the point. So repetition is part of practice.
I tried to pick quotes that really inspired me. I am not one of those people who collect quotes so I didn’t have an arsenal. I just looked at a few sites and made a pinterest board with ideas.
I then used that board each day to pick one. If I found myself spending too much time picking something, I’d force myself to pick the very next one I looked at. That usually motivated me to pick quickly.
All in all, I ended up with 26 of them. I’ve come to realize that a good number is 20. If I can do 20 of something new each month, I am making tangible progress and it’s good practice. 20 also means I don’t have to do them on the weekend if I don’t want to.
I loved doing these and had to tell myself that I couldn’t continue on to May. It’s important to me to switch them around. So for may, I did faces, but I might come back to this on another month of this year. Most importantly, it made me less scared about writing, which was exactly what I had hoped to achieve. On to another month!
A new month and a new intention. This month, I wanted to do something fun so I decided to pick Listen Creatively. How can I change things up? How can I look at the same thing differently? Can I get creative with my listening? What would that look like? What would that sound like? I am not sure what to expect from this month, but I am open to being creative with it. The creative lettering I used here comes from this pin. The image here is supposed to be watercolors. Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
I am trying to play catch up again. I will get better about these: the light lately seems to be bad here so these are blurry.
these were right after N’s party at school so he’s covered with hair paint.
face paint.
and tattoos. 19 of them.
doesn’t he look fierce?.
even while laughing.
and here we go. so grateful for my life. i hope your week was lovely, too. Weekly Diary is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
This class is by udacity.com and it’s a computer science class called Intro to Computer Science, which teaches Python, too. Learning with David is a project for 2014 that I am doing with my 9-year-old son. You can read more about it here.
This week’s inspiration comes from this pin. I am still obsessed with figure sketching and I loved this one. I drew the dresses in pencil then drew again with 0.005 micron and used the watercolors. The background is also watercolors. I also added some gold mica powder. You can see better in this other view.
prompt says: today i know that it is time for me to replace my I wrote about good and bad news and how i listen for the bad and how i want to replace this point of view. Today I Know is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
By the time I did this piece, I had run out of quotes. So I ended up taking some of my sheets from The Walk and pasted them on my page. I love how the wording turned out. I think it was a reminder to the deep parts of myself. I could use a lot more of these. I want to believe in impossible things. I want to be brave. Maybe the line between stupid and brave is thin but I still want to dance on it. I’ve always been conservative. Safe. I do the right thing. I make the wise choices. Not that I didn’t make mistakes but in the grand scheme, I’ve consistently played it safe. It’s what I do. But when I read “live the dare” it lights up my soul. I want to live the dare. I want to dream big dreams. The big dreams of my childhood are all met (and I am really grateful for that, of course.) and the only down side of that is that it’s time for new dreams. New big dreams. I think that’s fuel for the soul. At least for my soul. So what are your big dreams? are you living the dare?
This week’s stitching also comes from urban threads. This unicorn took me a while but I loved how colorful it is. I used stem stitch and back stitch on this one. The little word is colors. Stitching Circles is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here. |
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