Elixir (For Creative Tuesdays)

In just a short couple of days from now, The latest Creative Tuesdays will be upon us.  So, if you've been thinking about taking part in the festivities, please hop on over to Mr. Toast's creative co-op and read the guidelines and share your art based on the current theme, which, for this edition of Creative Tuesdays, it's Bottle.

For my piece this week I was going to draw a a bottle with a ship inside of it, but when I tried, I remembered it was a little above my current skill level.  I think the bottle looked ok, but the brown blurb inside looked nothing like a ship.  So, I thought, hmmm…and came up with an idea for some kind of ad campaign.  I started with an empty bottle on a white screen (didn't include it here), then I painted inside the bottle, was going to go with the lightning in a bottle theme, but I liked the way the aquamarine/teal blend looked too much to stray from it.  Then, as is seen in the first painting, I added a ferocious seascape to surround the bottle.  The next couple pieces I simply changed the color of the sea, layered them up together and used the old knife and went abstract on it, adding a variety of colors and found the ad I liked best. 

Looking forward to see how many bottles are on the CT wall this week.

Love, Abandoned to the Heaviness Inside

Colorforming in an Iconic Sea

Sweeping Astral Sunsets

A Brief Template for All That Has Since Come To Pass

Self-Portrait

Over at New World Creative Union, Natasha's posted this week's prompt for the Wednesday Wake Up, and it has to do with creativity and to shut those hater's up for good.  

Well, I started off attempting to paint up some vicious Dragon breaking free from an unsettled mass of earth, but then I realized I'm not that kind of artist, well, only because I haven't learned to be that kind of artist yet.  Fact being, my dragons look like anteaters, so that's a big reason I very rarely do anything that's not abstract.  However, I wondered, what could I do?

So I started out doodling in crayon, thanks Tash, and just started mindlessly drawing, (which is how all my pieces get going).  Then a thought captured me, and the result is now here, on display.  A Self-Portrait.  And while I'd love to say it's strictly my artistic self, I really don't want to lie.

Not sure if this piece silences the haters, or makes them want to say "told ya so," but if that's the case, let me rebut by saying, the first step in overcoming adversity is by identifying there is adversity to overcome.  Understand your struggles, contemplate them and ways around or through them.  Only by acknowledging as such, will you even have a shred of hope in overcoming them."

But then, the question arises, that I struggle with the most.  If you eliminate adversity, kind of impossible really, speaking generally, but if you are able to bring your mind to a better place, improve your lifestyle etc.. does what makes your creative side move also disappear?

That's the riddle right there.  A riddle I'm sure most would say, away cruel ills, and pray it doesn't clasp tightly upon your artistry as you vanquish it from your days.

Lighthouse at night

Well, I just posted something a couple hours ago, but saw The Wednesday Wake Up on Natasha's site and thought, why not.  love the NWCU and what they do for the artistic community and missed out the past two weeks, so thought I'd come up with something to share.  Check the NWCU out lots of great stories on display, and join in the wake up call while you're there.

Now I lay me down

The theme for this weeks Creative Tuesday is Healthy.  Well, I had trouble thinking of something healthy.  No, that's not entirely true, I thought of tons of things that are healthy, however, I couldn't think of anything healthy that I could actually draw or paint.

I had this neat idea of a woman making her way into a lake of milk, where at closer look the sandy shore was really a mix of Kashi and Grape Nuts, a few palm trees hanging bananas, oranges and of course some fish , multi colored, perhaps trout, swimming underneath the milky sea, just to add some Omega-3 to the healthy buffet.  But, nope.  Couldn't get it looking the way I wanted to.

So, seeing most doctors feel that sleep is both healthy and necessary to the human body, and seeing I couldn't figure out how to properly convey sleep, without the whole little boy sleeping in bed with a glow-in-the-dark crescent moon pasted to his wall, perhaps with his mother peeking in through the cracked door, letting just a trickling of the hallway light creep in.  But yeah, there was no way I'd pull that one off, the bed ok, the crescent moon, yep, the shadowy space, door and trickling of light, yep, the little boy, maybe, seeing he'd be under covers, but the mom, nope.

Well, this long intro aside, I thought of dreams, which I totally knew I could pull off.  And that's where this piece came from.  Phew….

The Immediate Dawn

When the Water Dries

A Cede of Soil

Anonymously Scrawled

Pathways Merge