Atcs received today from Gretchen Miller at 6 degrees

Many MANY thanks to Lani Gentry,Kathy Masone, Gretchen Miller, Gayle Crisp, Emma Finch and Trish Robbins

Die Fledermaus and friends

                                      Struggling with symmetry not really my thing     Coloured ink pens

 This was piles and piles of to do lists and shopping receipts that I glued down and coloured over. It felt good to contain them.represented many hours of achievements that go unseen.Pen and pencil and glue

 Collage with paint and watercolour crayon over

 I loved the Bats in the sydney Gardens,,I was going to call this 'Pink and the Bats' Piant and collage

The sunlight distorted this slightly at the bottom..should be darker Paint pencil glitter

Poem by Emily Haile

she wrote a yellow answer

you follow time like rain

start each day with home

the storm sings through my truth

i swim in whispers

where fast colours fly

Emily played with the magnetic Poetry on our fridge at the crib a couple of years ago and wrote this.Ruth (her mum) just sent it to me and reminded me of how much I like it.
Ruth and I are going to do some journalling around it and see what we come up with.


AND HERE THEY ARE..NOT VERY GOOD PHOTOS..SOME NOT QUITE FINISHED BUT NEARLY.

33 ways to stay creative

I flogged this off Amelia Critchlows Blog-..she said she found it on 'another creatives computer..source unknown' And in the spirit of creativity and its catchiness, I am re-posting it. Thanks Amelia http://101birdtales.blogspot.co.nz/2011/08/33-ways-to-stay-creative.html

For Anna

I got given this old book by my friend Mary and decided to seal the pages and turn it into a Journal. As I started gessing and sealing the pages, they started detaching from the sides and disintergrating slightly. I realised that the paper was quite fragile(very newsprinty).

I decided to split the spine and apply some serious glue down the spine and take my time with gessoing. I usually do multiple pages, but will need to be slower with this. In the end I used gesso mixed with a bit of modge podge (because that was what was open)..I decide it needed a bit more glue. I used the art spectrum Gesso as it was smoother and less grainy(it is lovely to work with) than the Fas (much cheaper and what I would normally use).

                                                                            Millas

                                                       Sealants glues and gessoes

 

Wee bit more needed today but otherwise working..yaah.

 Pages sealed well..will take more paint and colour now..also nice and smooth won't chew through my pencils and pens

Great talk on positivity

http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html?awesm=on.ted.com_Achor

ATC'S for 6degrees and some of 'what inspired them'