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My new sketchbooks are getting a lot of use these days. Been spending almost every night doodling,"coloring" as my husband calls it or just playing around.
Here's a little peak inside:
I like the white background on the blog with the white paper - look like the drawings are floating.
Good day guys
Cathy
I hope those of you in the U.S. had a great Thansgiving weekend! Ours here in Canada was quiet, mild and relaxing.
I spent more time looking at Carla Sonheim's new book which I also mentioned last week. She shows some artists work which she calls "Abstract Minutia" which I just love. It's funny because in the book she quotes one artist saying that he always thought artists had a picture in their mind before they start on a piece but in fact sometimes the piece just forms as they work.
I suppose that's why I love the pieces Carla Sondheim shows in her book under the section Abstract Minutia. Here's my version:
and even this ...
I remember my Dad also asking me when I was much younger and painting some pieces whether or not I saw it before I drew it. And I said, no, it just "forms" itself as I draw. And this is still true today. I suppose it's why I even talk about how you have to "feel the pen move" across the page and see where it takes you. I realize that is how I draw or paint. It's the combintation of the medium, paint, pencil and the paper and the color that brings me to what the piece will be.
Funny the things art makes you remember ...
Have a great creative day
Cathy
1. They Didn't Last An Hour, 2. summer place setting, 3. Christmas Stitches class - shisha ornament, 4. w09-13-1, 5. Art Journal January 2009, 6. Buttons3, 7. close up of watercolor crayons-dry, 8. Grungy White Vintage Buttons, 9. Antique Brass Tone Steampunk Oval Egg Shape Acrylic Spacer Beads 11 x 13 mm - E00016
PS IF YOU GET A CHANCE I AM OVER AT SHIMMERZ TODAY WITH A NEW TUTORIAL - RIGHT OVER HERE!!!
OOPS - one more thing - Stacy is running a Black Friday Special - check it out here
Have a great great weekend
Cathy
"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, he just goes on trying other things". ~Pablo Picasso
Isn't that a great quote - this is out of Carla Sonheim's new book which I will share more about later on next week.
So that quote got me thinking about these faces I have started drawing. It was strange cuz I kept drawing these faces but I wasn't happy with just the faces .. I needed to add more "style" and so I drew (pardon the pun) on my doodle art.
Here is what I came up with:
I think I will make these into cards - I think they would be fun. What do you think
PS. Snowing like crazy here to day!
Hope everyone had a great weekend. I imagine that all my US friends are getting ready for Thanksgiving and so you have all been busy.
Well I thought I could coax you out of the kitchen (if that`s where you be) for a little bit to show you a little very very simple tutorial to make some cute little tags for Christmas or any occassion really, maybe even Thanksgiving. I picture big stickers of turkeys on these tags!
CREATING TAGS
How simple is that!
Have a great creative Monday!
Cathy
So much fun to get such nice comments from all of you! I love it - makes me feel like I am not talking to myself when I post (lol lol).
The items in the shop have been going like crazy and so this just inspires me more and more to keep creating. I love imagining that my little items are in someones hands in another city/country - even continent! We all get asked what inspires us... for me of course it can be anything from a color on a blouse to a crack in the sidewalk but also what inspires me is you guys - you guys who just "get me" - there is not a better inspiration for me to create than that. I have the best customers/friends in the world. (They really oughta come up with a better name than customers in this blogging world - it doesn't do them justice!!!)
So this weekend I plan to get busy again in the studio but for now - just more doodling left over from last weekend which I did not show you yet.
how random is that!
my garden grows
I love making these pages of blocks of different papers - it's like putting a puzzle together
Have a good good Wednesday all
cathy
The weeks these days just seem to be flying past me. Two weeks pass and it feels like a few days. It was an lazily idle weekend, just managing the day to day stuff of wash, friends, visits, cleaning, and yes ... a little time in the evening to do some doodling/sketching.
Again, these are from my "What do I want to be when I grow up" journal. More to share with you on this...
Who are these funny women?
Things to do on the left ... prompted by Danielle Laporte's Spark Kit which I have talked about many times ... in fact, most of this journal is based on this.
Where are these places? Somewhere in my head I guess!
The more I work on this journal the more I want to share some of these exercises with you. Get ready in 2012 - January for a great workshop that I am putting together called: Journaling From the Inside Out.
Don't forget to check out the Shop for the new Christmas items I added this weekend.
Have a good, hopefull creative Monday all
I thought that this weekend would be a fun time to show you my little notebook as you are planning your christmas ideas and maybe even planning a little for 2012!!!
I made this little notebook with BLURB since they have this new "notebook" feature. It's really fun to use and since I made one actually originally just for myself - I thought I could also make it available to you.
It's filled with fun little prompts and pages to make your lists. It's got inspiration and room to draw and room to think about some things like "What makes me happiest".
I took some pictures of the inside pages - even thought you can see a preview on BLURB because it shows you how I use it. Also I love using SMILEBOX so I made this little "diddy" to show you:
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Have a great weekend all
Cathy
Okay - so not in the Christmas spirit yet... well, my little Christmas tags that I made for .. well Christmas ... started getting me in the mood to make more "stuff".
So I decided that since I was on a roll with Christmas and with getting back to working on collaged tins I should make some Christmas inspired collaged tins. I had a lot of fun taking pictures of these too.
Aren't these precious? All of these will be available in my shop within the next day or so. Also if you want to learn how I make these tins you can head over to Creative Workshops where I show you exactly how to do this.
I have a few more "non-Christmas" ones that I made but I still need to take some pics. I'll show you those soon.
Have a great weekend
Cathy
Still working on my "what do I want to be when I grow up" journal but every now and again I just end up doodling:
Yep - those are little beads there - don't know what compelled me to do that but it worked!
Have a great, creative Thursday all
Cathy
A little more playing in my studio this week.
I love paper, I love what you can do with it, how it takes different media, how dyes and paints, and stamps and ink can transform it!
All of the above ... in the Shop!
Have a good Monday
FInally got back into the studio and just starting creating ... just to create ... for a change. I spent a few hours last weekend playing around with my new die cut machine, my new rubo-on and other fun stuff.
Not sure what it is but I just love the little mini size of these tags and the classic little mini rub-ons
And then somehow, this morphed into ... well dare I say it ... Christmas, yes Christmas tags - I couldn't help myself.
I wanted to stay with that vintage, old world and "grubby" kind of look:
Certainly a different sort of Christmas theme but I think I like it ....
Think I'm going to go make more of these this weekend!
I'll get these in my shop later today!
Have a great weekend
Cathy
Today I thought I would show you one of my fabulously self-indulgent purchases this weekend.
I say self indulgent because, really, the price of this to drink coffee or tea in was outrageous - on the other hand, the joy I get from looking at this piece of art is ... well ... priceless.
This was actually created by hand here in Montreal by Maurice Filipozzi who I have still to google and find out exactly where this man is!
On the card/certificate that comes with the mug (wow - the word mug does not do this justice) it says that "this piece was entirely painted by hand and that the piece is decorated with real Swarowski crystals"- and yes it is.
I will enjoy this beauty.
Coffee never tasted better!
Have a good Wednesday
Cathy
