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Tag: creativity
Sunday Swatch
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DYI supplies
As fascinated as I was by the garden printing technique the other day, I didn’t have any prepped canvases or cloth to try it on (and I still don’t, blame my to do list). But I wanted to do something, so off I went on a garden tour to find plants for drying and maybe using in collages. I obviously can’t show you the results yet, but here’s a glimpse of my findings. Various leaves, daisies and wild roses among other things.
I’ve also read of a technique using fresh flowers in paintings, encasing them in gel medium. I don’t think I have the right kind in stock though, and alas, no prepped backgrounds either, so maybe next year…..
Trusting your instincts
Do you ever go against your own intuition and do things by the book or because someone told you so with their own inner conviction – and failed? Yes, I fail when I go my own way too, but my biggest “DUH – idiot” moments are always when I did not listen to my inner voice. Maybe I was even confounded by my own logic, pushing the touchy-feely stuff aside in favour of “science”. I’m a messy methodologist, laid back nitpick kinda person. Don’t tell me what that means, I don’t wanna know.
I really wish I’d learn not to. Ok, I do learn something from some of those mistakes too, but feeling stupid always annoys me. 😉
So when Ashford sells their rainbow colour kit as scarlet (fire engine red), blue and yellow, I thought there was probably some hidden chemical secret that would make this work, although I KNOW that magenta is really the purest primary colour for blending. (in the case of Ashford dyes, this is called hot pink) Continue reading “Trusting your instincts”
Garden printing
I’m finding so many inspiring and wonderful blogs now that I’ve started my own. Today I came upon a technique that I’m just DY(E)ING to try out now – how convenient that I dug out all my paints from the garage just recently?!