I’ve had a lovely, productive day 💖 Not quite as much done as I’d thought I would have. But I’m satisfied with my day.
I’ve heard that the creative mind is a messy mind, which spills out into its environment. I’m not sure that’s really true… I’ve peeked into artists’ studios, either in person, or in a book. Some are swirling tornadoes of paper, tools, and other bits’n’bobs. Others are pristine clean, everything in its place.
I’m probably somewhere between… Here’s my Art Room.
I was sorting through papers. Listening to music. Making preliminary sketches for a variety of ideas. Reading inspiring books. Taking snapshots of the things that stood out to me.
And, really – is it that untidy?
Well – yes, actually 😂 But at least I’m pretty sure I could find whatever I’m looking for in the teetering pile of stuff!
Each day has the possibility of producing beauty, and joy. Roll on morning – another chance to have a Really Good Day ❤ And who knows? Maybe I’ll even finish something 😀
I will finish this evening with a strangely soothing symphony…
The other day I went to my physio appointment. Usually the soft tissue mobilisations (I think that’s what they’re called?) are some form of painful, but I can still function OK the next day. This time was easily the worst pain I’ve had, although I can see it was necessary – I must have moved wrong, or picked up something without proper technique at some point, because everything was just…not right 😦 I didn’t sleep well after, and didn’t bounce back the next day as usual. Mostly, I just felt like someone had been whacking me with a blunt object 😆
Planning on getting stuff done tomorrow, though. Yay! 🙂
Here are some little bright spots I captured over the week (and a bit)
Originally placed on slice of cheesecake 🙂
This was just after my physio appointment – the shopping centre had a mural competition for their car park. I’ll have to have a closer look next time.
Lots of curls! I picked up the feather somewhere, but it had been hanging around in the car for a while. Now it’s living in my random still life 😀
So, I came to the end of the Rogue Hunt week, and managed to do more items than I thought I would! 😀 Part of the fun is interpreting the prompts – some I have a mental image pop up right away, some take time, and some I just don’t see at all…thankfully, I was in a team, so we all did good work on the things we picked ❤
I will post these in the order that I did them.
020 – Improve a famous book title by making it singular instead of plural (ie Tree Gump instead of Forrest Gump, but now you can’t use that one)
037 – In the style of Turkish artist Ertan Atay, combine a piece of Renaissance Art with a modern day photo, seamlessly blending the two into one image.
“Renaissance Florence” (not quite a seamless blend…)
100 – Scones with bones
(this was my favourite! 🙂 )
014 – Pushed Pork
Somewhere around here (midweek) I started on a team item, where we had to be gnomes in a garden. Here is Gnome Me.
😆
By this stage, I was cogitating on items I hadn’t initially chosen. This led to variable outcomes.
098 – A mason bee doing masonry work alongside a mason
I had no access to a mason bee. Or a mason. So I drew it. 🙂
009 – Using only straight lines draw or paint a picture of the troll who likes to get up to mischief in your garden. Leave it for them to find.
This one I had actually chosen early – just didn’t get around to doing it until later in the week.
These last ones were last minute, and hurried, interpretations…
052 – The calm in the (figurative) storm. Show us a tranquil art piece in the foreground while chaos reigns in the background.
I borrowed some of the boys’ display figurines…
097 – I’ve never seen an animal actually cross the road at their respective animal sign, but YOU are a responsible deer/moose/turtle/koala.etc and you cross where you’re expected.
(Sweet Bean as photographer ❤ )
And finally…
084 – Banana peels have a reputation for being slippery – Sounds like the perfect materials for a pair of high fashion slippers.
This was one where I had a clear idea of what I wanted to do. The execution went a bit…wrong. I eventually got this shot with a combination of speed, balancing, and the judicious application of tacks. They certainly look slipper-y!
It’s amazing what you can do when you just leap in to it.
A while back, for a few years, I did a scavenger hunt for a week each August. That’s gone, now. Much missed 😦 But I found something similar – not as big, but consisting of weird items to be completed during the week. I will do a post next week of my items – just know that I’ve spent the afternoon sculpting with scone dough, and filming a random food video… Tomorrow will involve a garden troll 🙂
As I can’t yet show you what I’m doing, I will share some tiny flowers on our garden fence.
…of the city! We went to a multicultural festival in the centre of our city this morning. Couldn’t stay too long, but got to see some great dancing, and browsed the stalls. It would have been nice to set up some chairs and settle in for a bit. Hopefully there’ll be another one next year!
I picked up a late breakfast from a Portuguese food stall.
It was labelled as “Coconut Delice”, although I can’t find a match in Google. Quite hearty. 😀 And no – I couldn’t finish that in one sitting. There’s a bit leftover for tomorrow.
I spent the rest of the day reading, mostly finishing a book extolling the benefits of recognising ordinary joys. Cutting down on social media. Enjoying what you have, rather than what you could get. Living life, rather than just being busy. Or curating your public face for Instagram. Being content with an ageing body…
Sorry about the pun. Although it might possibly have been appreciated by its subject.
Another part of my childhood gone – Bill Oddie – comedian, conservationist, birdwatcher, and one third of the Goodies has died.
😦
I remember The Goodies being on at the same time as the news, so we didn’t always get to watch it. But – once seen, hard to forget. I think a lot of people around my age would remember giant kittens and ecky thump 😀
Just for a laugh…
Leave it to them to make a crossover between Star Wars and Doctor Who!
It’s been a full week. Fun! But tiring… So, in lieu of deep and thought provoking commentary, I thought I’d share one photo (that I’ve taken, but not used here) from each of the last three months.
A bit of sunshine on a cosy corner. Also – one of the few leather sofas I’ve found to be comfortable. Just don’t put your feet on it!
A big glass Christmas tree ornament. That I have never used on the Christmas tree… It’s pretty, though. And shiny!
Lines. And spirals. A composition of contentment. 🙂
After a cold, blustery day, we went to do the weekly shop. This was the view when we got to the car.
And when we got home…
❤
It’s hardly surprising, since we’re only minutes down the road.
Kermit sang of songs about rainbows. I’m not sure there are as many about them as he thought…
But here’s one.
There is also poetry.
The Rain-bow -by Thomas Love Peacock
The day has pass’d in storms, though not unmix’d With transitory calm. The western clouds, Dissolving slow, unveil the glorious sun, Majestic in decline. The wat’ry east Glows with the many-tinted arch of Heav’n. We hail it as a pledge that brighter skies Shall bless the coming morn. Thus rolls the day, The short dark day of life; with tempests thus, And fleeting sun-shine chequer’d. At its close, When the dread hour draws near, that bursts all ties, All commerce with the world, Religion pours Hope’s fairy-colors on the virtuous mind, And, like the rain-bow on the ev’ning clouds, Gives the bright promise that a happier dawn Shall chase the night and silence of the grave.
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…and one more 🙂
“Still will I harvest beauty where it grows” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Still will I harvest beauty where it grows: In coloured fungus and the spotted fog Surprised on foods forgotten; in ditch and bog Filmed brilliant with irregular rainbows Of rust and oil, where half a city throws Its empty tins; and in some spongy log Whence headlong leaps the oozy emerald frog. . . . And a black pupil in the green scum shows. Her the inhabiter of divers places Surmising at all doors, I push them all. Oh, you that fearful of a creaking hinge Turn back forevermore with craven faces, I tell you Beauty bears an ultra fringe Unguessed of you upon her gossamer shawl!
a bit of creativity, a bit of eco consciousness, a bit of inspiration.... hopefully not a lot of pompousness and blathering :D
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1000 Fields of Roses 