Feeling triumphant!

I’ve been so productive in My Creative Space this week.

Little Tweet Tweet is finished! I spent Tuesday at Rod Art Studio working on him and was so happy with how he was looking.   Then at the very last moment – literally, I was just about to run the polishing cloth over for the last time..... the chain snapped. It was so frustrating there was no time to repair it and I couldn’t go home wearing my adorable new pendant like I had imagined all day.

But with a few more hours work on Wednesday I had him ready to go and even better than before. What do you think, worth all of the planning, work and waiting?? I definitely think so, I can’t stop looking at my quirky, one of a kind, hand made necklace!

But that’s not the only creating that’s been going on for me this week. I have been painting, properly painting, with my oils and on the easel painting.  It’s been soooooo long!

A little while ago I started a little sketch book of nothing. I was inspired by Little Guys two year old scribbles, so free and joyous. So I sat down with a charcoal pencil and scribbled and doodled nothing at all. It was fun and freeing, but then I just put the book away and didn’t think of it again. Monday night I ventured into the studio and pulled it out. This little sketch caught my eye and I was inspired to develop it further.

I had to do a lot of rearranging in the studio to clear the easel, but as soon as the paints were spread out and the first glaze was mixed, the smell of the oils brought it all back and I just fell into it.

I’m thrilled with this, my funny, scribbly, painting of nothing! I have called it "Freedom", I just felt so free and creative and comfortable as I painted it. I’m on a roll and I plan to build momentum, I remember now how addictive this feeling is.

 

 "Freedom"

oil on canvas

101 x 76

2010

$200

I also been to the fabric shop and picked up some really great fabrics for more flower brooches. Ooooh and I got some vintage earrings for embellishing the brooches.  But all of that and more is going to have to wait for another post!

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