The latest addition of Sew Somerset, coming out June first. My birds of poetry and a how-to article were published in it. It's not my usual color palette, I wanted to try a more muted color scheme, but It makes me want to run back to my magenta, chartreuse and tangerine. I can't get enough color, but it's good to try new things. I had fun stenciling the tree designs on the birds and I enjoyed the hand stitching I did on the wings.
I altered a photo I took of a beautiful magenta zinnia I had growing in my yard. First I painted around the flower, did a little scratching into the surface of the photo with an awl. Then I did a slight alteration on photoshop.
I took a journal class this week-end from Teesha and Tracy. I learned some cool techniques. These pages are not close to being done yet. These are the first two layers, I still need to add more details and text. Teesha was very generous teacher with her materials and ideas. She talked about being able to let go of things. When we hold on to things they become to precious and then we lose the creative energy. One of my favorite quotes is from Henri Matisse, "Creativity takes courage" to me that means letting go what what we know to be able to experience the creative mystery.
I have several projects going right now. When I need a break, I have table set up just for painting. I will randomly paint pieces of paper or fabric for my stash. This piece of fabric started out a horrible bright orange and pink fluorescent color, I must have brought it in the 80's! I used my now favorite and famous coffee cup stencil. The heat sleeve of the cup had holes in it, it's the best stencil and they are really had to find now.
