Week 4, Day 3: Creative Tuesday - Building Models, Part 1

Good day! When I googled Tap-taps I found some photos of a collection of miniature vehicles.  It looked like a souvenir collection from the different places this person had visited.  There were all kinds of vehicles, but the one that caught my eye was a toy tap-tap. This inspired me to create my own tap-tap.

My routine has developed that I work on my creative journey at night.  This is mostly since I have had a lot of freelance work, and honestly, as much as I love doing the blog, I have to do my paying work first.  Working at night usually gives me uninterrupted time, unless I still have work. After my daughter is in bed, I get to play...if I waited for my son to go to bed, I'd never get any sleep! I also like working at night because it gives me time during the day to stew over what I want to do for my projects.

As I went through the day, I thought of the things I could use for my tap-tap, how I could put it together and how I would decorate it.  To limit myself, I decided that I would use only what I could find at home.  No going out to buy paints, stickers or even a model. Recycling, or is it repurposing.....

Tonight, I had to finish up a freelance job, so I am still in the gathering stage for my tap-tap and figuring out how will I express myself.  Can't wait to see what develops!

Week 2, Day 7: It's a Wrap

This has been a good week.  I am really enjoying the process, but I've continued to have challenges finding time to complete the projects every day.  They are taking more time than I anticipated -- I attribute that to my perfectionism and wanting everything to be perfect.  I am trying to let go of that, so we'll see if I can do better in the coming weeks.

Part of the challenge that Donna and I talked about was getting something posted everyday.  This past week I have failed.  My schedule this week is not as busy, so I hope to stay on track.  What do you do to work things in when your schedule is full?

Sunday: Inspiration Photo January 30, 2011

Inspiration Photo:
Iron Fleur De Lis

The week started with a trip down memory lane.  I chose a photo from my vacation in New Orleans for my High School Reunion. I chose my inspiration photo for the architectural details, not the quality of the photo.

Sketching Monday

Sketch: Architectural Elements

On Monday I focused on sketching the architectural elements. Since this photo was not the best, it was a bit of a challenge this week.

Creative Tuesday: Part 1 & Part 2

Watercolor Painting

Tuesday is about creating in a different medium or format. I chose one of my old favorites, watercolor painting.  It's been many, many years since I have actually painted so it was fun.  The hard part was not being able to control the image like I used to.  I spent way too much time doing this one, but I really had a bunch of fun with the paints.

Colorful Wednesday

Neon Glow Filter

On Wednesday, I played with different filters in Photoshop. 

Graphic Thursday: Part 1 & Part 2

Graphic Image

Thursday was a bit of a challenge finding time.  I had some freelance work, doctors appointments, and kids functions, so I actually posted the a graphic image of a Fleur De Lis on Friday. I tried a couple of different shading styles in Illustrator and Photoshop.

Freebie Friday

Fractal Image

Friday I actually caught up with Thursday's challenge.  I learned a new process in Photoshop called Fractal design.  I used my Fleur De Lis to create a Mardi Gras Card for anyone to download.

I also sent a shout-out to my friend JoLene on World Cancer Day.  She is in the process of kicking some cancer-butt and just finished the second step of her treatment. She lives on the other side of the country so I don't get to see her enough!

If you want to take this challenge with me, or even just parts of the challenge, please post your photos to the Visual Tapestry: Creative Journey group on Flickr.  I love to see what you do!

Two weeks down, fifty left.  What do you think?  Have you been inspired to find your creative side?

It's a Creative Tuesday

Inspiration Photo

The Today is the day that I have to think outside the box and create something in a different media.  I love the shapes and textures in the photo, so I decided to do a 3 dimensional design.

The design is yet to come.  I'm still working on a freelance job that needs to get to the printer tonight....aaaaahhhhh....so the finished piece you will see tomorrow, unless I can get everything done tonight.  Since I'd like to go ahead and post (to fulfill the challenge), for right now you can see my process of what I have started.


The Story of My Sculpture

When I was at ASU, that isArizona State University (ASU in this area is Appalachian State, so I have to distinguish myself from the "other ASU" alumni!) one of my first art classes was 3-D art.  I only took it because it was required!

Up to that point all I had ever done was 2-D paintings and drawings.  It opened up a whole new world for me and I found a new side to my creativity.  One of my favorite place to shop for supplies was Home Depot.  Everything in there had the potential to become something other that what it was intended for.

So today I decided to look around the house for something that I could use to create a sculpture of my inspiration.  So this is what I did:

I took coffee filters, and piled them a couple hight and colored them with water-based markers, nothing pretty, just scribbles.

Then took a cup of water and poured it over the filters.  When I wrung out the water, most of the color went with it :(.   This was not the look I hoped to see.

So I started again, this time with 2 stacks colored differently.

Then I used a spray bottle to wet them instead of soaking them.

Then I flipped them to see if they went all the way through.  then I separated them to let them dry, which didn't take long at all!

After they dried, I cut them into quarters, thirds and halves.  As soon as I get a moment, I will start creating a sculpture from it and other pieces.  Until later.....

Brochure for Church

Yay! I finally finished the brochure for church! On this job, I created the logo and the layout and design of the booklet, which then evolved to all kinds of other coordinating pieces. Even though this project is a volunteer job, I am still freelancing until Visual Tapestry Design starts taking off.  Freelance...what I call my regular design work...is any print design piece from logos to booklets to letterhead and stationery, or anything else printed that is 2-d or 3-d.  I just love to design and allow my creative talent to take over. I found on this project I was just thinking about it too much and once I started working on it, it started flowing!