Happy Valentine! Something beautiful for you to look at. If no one is buying you flowers, why not treat yourself to a beautiful bouquet and then photograph it, draw it, paint it.
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old stamped envelopes
A few weeks ago, I went to an antique fair and picked up a collection of stamped envelopes, some matchboxes, a great wooden Coca-Cola crate, and a set of 6 shot glasses from the 60s.
Here’s a US envelope and some Danish stamps. I wonder if these will be inspiration for new work. I’ll share more each week. Do you collect anything?
inspiring quotes
These days I always try to start my studio time by doing something personally creative that has nothing to do with business. Sometimes I take 15 minutes and other times 1 hour. This morning I came across this quote in The Artist Way book, “Creativity is…seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how to bring it into being…” by Michele Shea. The quote actually continued “…and that way be a playmate with God.” That last bit didn’t speak to me, so I left it out.
I used a page from a scrapbook stack that you buy at the store and did an image transfer of the quote. It is good to be reminded that you need to work on creativity if you want to be creative.