Creativity

A journey through my creative process...

Birds of a Feather...

 

I started out with 3 canvas panels and covered 

them with a paper napkin (I separated the napkin 

from its plain white backing)  using Golden's 

semi-gloss gel medium.

  

Once the gel medium was dry I gave them 

a light coat of watered-down gesso.

  

At this point I really wasn't thrilled with it and so 

I inked the edges with turquoise blue chalk inks and 

also used the ink over punchinella/sequin waste 

as a stencil.

  

It still needed more depth so I stamped with white acrylic paint using several different stamps. Once the paint was dry I added a layer of Golden's transparent blue air brush paint mixed with transparent glaze. As the final layer I used more of the white paint with the punchinella/sequence waste to give it the honeycomb designs you see. Next I drew some birds and cut them out of scrap paper then  pieced them together, inked the edges and adhered them by running them through my Xyron and for the finishing layer I added Golden's semi-gloss gel medium.

Artistic Inspirations to
help you create!

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Ingenuity at it's finest!

There is no loss for creativity in my household...after blowing the grass clippings and dirt from the cement my son Spencer's ingenuity kicked in to high gear and he hooked the leaf blower to one of their old Tonka trucks and ran with it as it sped down the street! What's even funnier is how quickly they can go from being so grown up to letting the kid come out to play!

In less then 24 hours he went from GQ debonair looking to what you see LOL check out his prom pictures: http://www.outsidethemargins.com/juniorprom.html

Creativity comes in all forms!

Check out the new Headwear

for Spring 2007!

Why is my son wearing a leaf hat you may be wondering? (isn't it great!)

No particular reason except that his creativity got the better of him and he was inspired by the leaves in the tree and went for it. How often do we do that as Adults? We could certainly take some lessons from kids...they don't have to have a reason to create they just do because they're inspired....look around and let yourself be inspired just because :-)