Creativity

 

( My Christmas card this year)

 

This morning I was reading some of my favorite blogs and

a theme was appearing, the creative process.

My first stop was A Bird in the Hand. Collette painted

four paintings. Three of them were, they can only be describe as,

a unit. They went together and they should be displayed together.

These three painting each had a circle with  color patches randomly place.

Two were sparse and one was full of colors.

She stated that she didn't know what they were but she

knew they went together.

 

I also dropped by I am Rushmore and Karen was experimenting.

She is doing a 40 days of creativity challenge.

Everyday she adds something to her canvas, which happens to

be a brown paper bag!

( Karen paints on bags, collects dead bugs, read her last post--she doesn't follow

her huge "to do" list...we are from the same gene pool)

 

As I looked through the photo montage of her piece, it changed dramatically

each day. In several of the photos it looked looked like a good place to stop,

done, perfect. But the next day keeping with the challenge she pushed on.

Her last stopping point pretty much wiped out all of her work, she

white washed the whole thing. I don't think it went quite as she planned but she can

build up from that layer.

 

Okay, so here is where I'm going with this, the creative process is strange, unpredictable

and sometimes so frustrating.

JC on her Zendoll blog is struggling with making  Christmas themed art.

She is a master at vintage collage. JC has a collection of graphics, she has the paper,

the glue, the stamps...in other words the supplies she needs.

But nothing is speaking to her..nothing is being created.

 

Collette freely created, Karen keeps pushing on to see where creativity will take her,

and then there is my latest project....Christmas cards.

 

I started out wanting to use my blog banner as my Christmas card this year. When I tried to resize it

to fit an online printing site the image was to blurry.

( tech pixel stuff to hard for my brain to figure out)

So I decide to make some paper trees, added white sand for snow,

and glitter for stars.

Again, bad resolution and I didn't like the image much.

See for yourself.

 

 

Next I tried the banner again..

size issues and not sure I liked it.

 

 

 

I gave up on paper and started walking around my yard.

 

 

Pine, bitter sweet and lilac bush held together

with an old clip on earring and a ribbon.

Next stop Photoshop.

I'm not even sure what I used to make these next images,

I was a point and click fool.

( desperation)

 

 

 

 

Finally I settled on this...

 

 

 

Merry Christmas is written across the bottom right side of the card.

Crossing my fingers I get them from the printer soon!

 

In the end there is no recipe or hard fixed plan to

being creative.

Being creative is a challenge everyday,

not just for 40 days.

Hang in there and work through it or go in another direction!

 

 

P.S. Corrine, I think you are right about the stamps from my last post.

Ed Varney signed the side of the paper, makes sense that they

are his art work. I guess I need to frame them.

Back to my "to do" list, reading other blogs was on it, not writing on my blog!