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: Fire Lady

fire-lady_smI’ve painted another figure on my iPad, I really like the color palate and how she just jumps out of the page.  I like the fiery colors, and her hair.  I often have trouble with curly hair but I got her hair really good this time (thanks to painting on the iPad and not with actual paints, I could undo several times.)

Daily Creativity: Embrace

EmbraceAnother painting from my iPad.  This one I call embrace.  I can expect from a select few of my readers they will deem this one a bit risque.  I’ve done nudes before, and I’ve done my blob people before, but this post is a bit more formed and a bit intimate.  I like it, I don’t think it’s too out there, but I expect some might.  Art will always offend someone, and it should.  I didn’t paint this to offend, I only realized it would as I went to post it on the internet.  I often don’t see the risque nature of things I create.  A photograph of a mouth can be innocent beauty to some and pornographic to others, the same can be said for almost anything.  After getting a lot of private comments about some of my art, I only expect it with this one.

I like how the colors are red and orange, I like how they blend and make me think of fire, and warmth.  I like that they embrace is warm and the color is transferring between the forms.  I’m not sure I like how they are semi floating in space.  I tried to create a ground without getting too specific.  I didn’t want to the background to distract the eye.

Daily Creativity: Kiss

kiss_smIt’s been a few days since I’ve posted a Daily Creativity, mostly because my creative project from those days isn’t finished yet.  It’s taking a lot of time to dry in between the stages… but on to this one.  Kiss.  As Tek calls this style, my blob people.  This style I think conveys emotion of a moment, which strikes a chord with me.

Daily Creativity: Move Your Body

Move Your Body“Enjoy your body, use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own…”

Move your body, no matter the size or restrictions.  In movement we learn what our bodies can do, and we can learn to love them.  Love your body, love the skin you are in.

I really like how this one came out.  I painting this from a photo I saw on tumblr, reblogged and shared so often I can’t find the original poster or photographer, but it was inspiring.