Daily Creativity 2013 Lent Round Up

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This year for Lent I started l my daily creativity project late and I made myself a deal, I didn’t have to do one every day.  Mostly because it was a rough lent for me, very busy, and lots of stress.  I didn’t need this project to become an added stress and then become something to push me further from my relationship with God and further from art itself.  If you want to know more about my personal struggles we can chat over a soda/coffee/tea sometime, but for the blog, it’s not important.  I was able to manage 26/40 images.  I have a pair of shoes that will be posted once they are fully weather proofed, that was part of my creativity, and some baking projects too.  I think I did well, and I’m happy with the results.  four of my creations have been ordered as prints, so that’s 3 more than last year, that’s another win.  I would like to look into making stickers from some of the works, like the Pi symbol and possibly an updated version of the Rocktopus, I like the RedBubble stickers and think I will make a few of these things available there.  I wish they could go larger than 3″x4″ but they will die cut it too, so that’s cool.

So what was your favorite creation this year?

Daily Creativity: Skull

Skull_smThis is yesterday’s daily creativity, I was out most of the day and just not able to get in up until today.  I started drawing this while at the radio station and then finished it when I got home.  Skulls are fun, and I have a few around my house.  I’ve often worn skulls on my clothing and I remember in the past having a lot of negative reactions to it, but now I get positive reaction.  Little kids wear skulls now and it’s cute.  It’s interesting how societies perception of things like this keeps changing. I like the decoration on the top, and the shading and cross hatching on the cavities.  Ink on paper.

Daily Creativity: Rory has a crush

RoryHasACrushToday I drew this mental image I have from time to time of Rory acting out his crush.  Very few people know of the other animals in Rory’s story, but this is one of them.  Ishime, a panther cub.  Rory wants to give her a flower.

I drew this with fine tipped sharipes on paper.  I like the ability I have to do some fun ink things with sharpies but find myself wishing for the control of a quill.  Now if only I had a good way to utilize various ink colors with a quill?

Daily Creativity: Love Your Body

Love Your BodyI did this painting on Friday (March 22nd) but am only able to post it today (March 24th).  This has been a busy past few days.  Just after putting a 44 page publication to bed CHSR (the campus & community radio station I volunteer at) is in the middle of their annual fundraising drive (FunDrive), and the first few events started.  It’s been crazy, but fun, I was hocking hot dogs out in the snow on Friday at passing college students, helping The Clockwork Doctor parade around the Farmer’s Market, and then went to an acoustic show that wasn’t my style until Josh Bravener took the stage and started doing some fun covers, and then I was dancing.  Add in two other social parties, recording two live shows, one on air (radio) and one live on youtube, helping clean out the station, baking (for two events), and yes, I have been quite busy.

On to the paining.  This is another love your body image, I liked the vague lines I drew with a pen so I just added some watercolor to the background to give it something more.  I like how it came out.  I like the peaceful look to it.  It looks like someone comfortable in their own skin, and isn’t that the goal?  The Dream?

Done on my iPad.

Daily Creativity: Pop Tek

Pop TekI haven’t done a pop art piece in a while and to get the rust off my style I decided to do a piece featuring one of my favorite people, Tek!  Tek is my husband, also known as The Clockwork Doctor, and he has wanted a pop art piece for longer than he should have waited.

I of course had to put a bang behind him, if you know Tek, you know why.  I like how this one came out, and considering the subject matter it’s no surprise why.