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Block-a-Long #56: Two Rectangles

Jaye — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:46:02 +0000

2 Rectangles in a Field of Squares #56

Yes, this has a lot of small squares, but you can do it.

Directions for 2 Rectangles in a Field of Squares #56 are posted.

If you have made blocks or a quilt from these patterns, please post a link in the comments section of the relevant block or on the AQ Block-a-Long Flickr group. I would love to see what you have made.

Nota bene: The AQ Block-a-Long is ending. I am starting to repeat myself and run out of ideas and since this has not been very popular, I don’t feel bad about ending it. I am going to try and make it to #60 so you have an even number with which to work, but we will see.

Sketching #136

Jaye — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:44:14 +0000

CPP Response #136: Holly

Yes, I am still catching up with prompts I didn’t do. We all go through moods and lack of creativity and response is one of mine. I seem to be back in the saddle, so here is an oldie, but a goodie.

Just spend 5 minutes developing a creative habit. it takes time.

Then, please post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of the original prompt post. Keeping all the artwork together provides a way for others to see the gamut of responses. It is also a great showcase for your work and way for people to find a link your blog or website.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, to which you can join to post your responses. Are you already a member? I created that spot so those of you without blogs or websites would be able to participate as well. Please join and look at all of the great artwork that people have posted.

Creative Prompt #157: Write

Jaye — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:19:33 +0000

Write what you know

writing practice

Palmer method

freelance

comedy writer

wrote code

copy writing

written communications

write me a letter

cursive

write a cover letter

write fiction

write a song

write your own ticket

writing classes

WriterCorps

Definition: (transitive verb) 1. a : to form (as characters or symbols) on a surface with an instrument (as a pen) b : to form (as words) by inscribing the characters or symbols of on a surface c : to spell in writing written alike but pronounced differently> d : to cover, fill, or fill in by writing <wrote ten pages> <write a check>; 2 : to set down in writing: as a : draw up, draft <write a will> b (1) : to be the author of : compose <writes poems and essays> (2) : to compose in musical form <write a string quartet> c : to express in literary form write the beauty of your eyes — Shakespeare> d : to communicate by letter <writes that they are coming> e : to use or exhibit (a specific script, language, or literary form or style) in writing <write Braille> <writes French with ease> f : to write contracts or orders for; especially : underwrite <write life insurance>; 3 : to make a permanent impression of; 4 : to communicate with in writing write you when we get there>; 5 : ordain, fate written — D. C. Peattie>; 6 : to make evident or obvious written on his face>; 7 : to force, effect, introduce, or remove by writing <write oneself into fame and fortune — Charles Lee>; 8 : to take part in or bring about (something worth recording); 9 a : to introduce (information) into the storage device or medium of a computer b : to transfer (information) from the main memory of a computer to a storage or output device; 10: sell <write a stock option>; (intransitive verb) 1 a : to make significant characters or inscriptions; also : to permit or be adapted to writing b : to form or produce written letters, words, or sentences; 2 : to compose, communicate by, or send a letter; 3 a : to produce a written work b : to compose music.

Make your response simple. It doesn’t need to be a masterpiece. Take 5 minutes. Just respond and create a creative habit. Please post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and/or your blog, and how your work relates to the other responses.

The Creative Prompt Project has a Flickr group, which you can join to post your responses. Are you already a member? I created that spot so those of you without blogs or websites would have a place to post your responses. Please join and look at all of the great artwork that people have posted.

Nota bene: Daisy Yellow is having an Index Card a Day Challenge in June & July. I think this project fits in well with the Creative Prompt Project and I agree with Tammy that an index card is a great canvas size.

Sketching #156

Jaye — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:33:16 +0000

CPP Response #156: Rose

Lots taking place in the dining room recently. Not sure why. I guess I am obsessed with eating. I am really thrilled that Landscape Lady is participating; she has really re-motivated me. I did 3 prompt responses (still catching up!) on Monday. Check back later for the others. I won’t have my usual drawing time again until June 4, so I’ll have to figure out a way to keep up without that time.

Just spend 5 minutes developing a creative habit. it takes time.

Sketching #135

Jaye — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:08:34 +0000

CPP Response #135: Clouds

This is related to the response to prompt #98. I wanted to use the same location. It is the other side of the dining room.

Just spend 5 minutes on your prompt. It will help you develop a creative habit. Developing a creative habit takes time. What you make does not have to be perfect or for public consumption. You will get better if you do something every week.

Sketching #149

Jaye — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:29:27 +0000

Creative Prompt Response #149: Parallelogram

People are hard.

I had to do this response twice, because people are hard and I wanted to get the swing of her hair right….or mostly right.

I am pleased with how this came out.

Please post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of the original prompt post. I am trying to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and find a link your blog or website. It is also a great way to see how your work relates to the other responses.

Creative Prompt #156: Rose

Jaye — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:13:13 +0000

Floated up in the air

rose petals

Joanna Rose (of Infinite Variety)

The Rose (movie)

rose bush

Berkeley Rose Garden

Rose Garden in Golden Gate Park

Poem: A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry:

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee well, my only Luve
And fare thee well, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

Pete Rose

The Name of the Rose (movie)

Rose Bowl

Rose Pistola

The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley

He rose up

rose in the morning

The Rose Family by Robert Frost

The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple’s a rose,
And the pear is, and so’s
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only know
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose–
But were always a rose.

stocks rose on news that….

Symbolism: Roses have been long used as symbols in a number of societies. Roses are ancient symbols of love and beauty. “Rose” means pink or red in a variety of languages (such as Romance languages, Greek, and Polish). [In the classical era] The rose was sacred to a number of goddesses including Isis, whose rose appears in the late classical allegorical novel The Golden Ass as “the sweet Rose of reason and vertue” that saves the hero from his bewitched life in the form of a donkey.^[1] The ancient Greeks and Romans identified the rose with their goddesses of love, Aphrodite and Venus.

In Rome a wild rose would be placed on the door of a room where secret or confidential matters were discussed. The phrase sub rosa, or “under the rose”, means to keep a secret — derived from this ancient Roman practice.

heirloom roses

American Rose Society

Rose Parade, Pasadena, New Year’s Day

Stinking Rose (Garlic Restaurant in San Francisco)

Charlie Rose

color

Rose wine

Tournament of Roses

My SIL’s middle name

Definition: A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species. They form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers are large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows and reds. Most species are native to Asia, with smaller numbers native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Species, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and fragrance. Rose plants range in size from compact, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach 7 meters in height. Different species hybridize easily, and this has been used in the development of the wide range of garden roses.^[1]

The name rose comes from French, itself from Latin rosa, which was perhaps borrowed from Oscan, from Greek rhodon (Aeolic wrodon), related to Old Persian wrd-, Avestan varda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr, Armenian vard.^[2]^[3]

Derrick Rose

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University

Sketching #148

Jaye — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:19:50 +0000

Creative prompt response #148: Tea

This word had such potential and I was really looking forward to responding to it, then, in the end, I ran out of time and just tossed something on the page.I can always go back and do another, right?

I guess done is better than perfect. Create your own perfect response and post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of the original prompt. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and/or your blog, as well as how your work relates to the other responses.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, to which you can join to post your responses. Are you already a member? I created that spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses. Please join and look at all of the great artwork that people have posted.

Sketching #153

Jaye — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:02:55 +0000

Creative Prompt Response #153: Arrangement

A big urn of flowers was the first thing that came to my mind when I went to respond to this prompt.

One of the biggest regrets I have for not being born a princess is that I don’t have anyone whose job it is to make sure the flowers are fresh, have enough water and don’t stink. I don’t have anyone to replace the flowers when they are old or to take care of the cutting garden.

Oh.

I don’t have a cutting garden either.

I guess a drawing of an arrangement is as good as it gets.

Post a link to your own response on the original page for this prompt.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to post your responses. Are you already a member? I created that spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses. Please join and look at all of the great artwork that people have posted.

Creative Prompt #155: Present

Jaye — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:00:34 +0000

I am reinvigorated now that Landscape Lady (@quiltscapes on Twitter) has joined the project.

A good person is a gift to the whole world. – Heidi Wills

perfect gift for the person who has everything

Gift Tax

Fred Rogers

present

creative gift

Definition: A gift or a present is the transfer of something without the expectation of payment. Although gift-giving might involve an expectation of reciprocity, a gift is meant to be free. In many human societies, the act of mutually exchanging money, goods, etc. may contribute to social cohesion. Economists have elaborated the economics of gift-giving into the notion of a gift economy. By extension the term gift can refer to anything that makes the other happier or less sad, especially as a favor, including forgiveness and kindness. (Just so you know my blog is a gift to you!)

gift giving

unusual gift ideas

gift registry

gift the gift of….

gift baskets

gift card

handmade gift

Sketching #152

Jaye — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:57:48 +0000

Creative Prompt Response #152: Lift

Sometimes I go back to look at a response and find that I am quite proud of it. I think distance can be a good thing.

This is my response to Creative Prompt #152. Take a look and see what you can come up with.

I really like the heads.

Creative Prompt #154: Escape

Jaye — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:56:19 +0000

escape paintball

Escape from Alcatraz

I never hear the word “Escape” (144)

By Emily Dickinson

I never hear the word “Escape”

Without a quicker blood,

A sudden expectation –

A flying attitude!

I never hear of prisons broad

By soldiers battered down,

But I tug childish at my bars

Only to fail again!

Escape from New York

a computer game

the Great Escape

escape fate

escape the maze

Definition: [ih-skeyp] Show IPAverb, es·caped, es·cap·ing, noun, adjective, verb (used without object). 1. to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. 2. to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil. 3.to issue from a confining enclosure, as a fluid. 4. to slip away; fade: The words escaped from memory. 5. Botany . (of an originally cultivated plant) to grow wild. verb (used with object): 7. to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.): He escaped the police. 8. to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil): She escaped capture. 9. to elude (one’s memory, notice, search, etc.). 10. to fail to be noticed or recollected by (a person): Her reply escapes me. 11. (of a sound or utterance) to slip from or be expressed by (a person, one’s lips, etc.) inadvertently.

Ford Escape SUV

Her name escapes me

escape the room

escapism: is mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation, as an “escape” from the perceived unpleasant or banal aspects of daily life. It can also be used as a term to define the actions people take to help relieve persisting feelings of depression or general sadness. (Wikipedia)

prison break

Escape”, a song by Journey from the album Escape

to elude

to succeed in avoiding

Creative Prompt #153: Arrangement

Jaye — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:43:21 +0000

Flower arrangement

What are your arrangements?

Do you need help with the arrangements?

What arrangement did you decide on for your blocks?

order

Music definition: The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as “the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structure” (Corozine 2002, p. 3). Orchestration differs in that it is only adapting music for an orchestra or musical ensemble while arranging “involves adding compositional techniques, such as new thematic material for introductions, transitions, or modulations, and endings…Arranging is the art of giving an existing melody musical variety” (ibid).

Please post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and/or your blog, and how your work relates to the other responses.

The Arrangement: A Novel, a 1967 work by Elia Kazan
The Arrangement (1969 film), a film directed by Elia Kazan, adapted from his novel
The Arrangement (1999 film), Canadian film directed by and starring Michael Ironside; unrelated to the work of Kazan
The Arrangement (band), a popera group who entered Britain’s Got Talent
The Arrangement (TV series), a reality series upcoming on Logo
“The Arrangement”, a 1969 song by Oliver

(from Wikipedia)

Have you made arrangements for the meeting?

arrangement dating

arrangement of the furniture

childcare arrangements

musical arrangement

Edible Arrangements

Geometry Definition: In geometry and combinatorics, an arrangement of hyperplanes is a finite set A of hyperplanes in a linear, affine, or projective space S. Questions about a hyperplane arrangement A generally concern geometrical, topological, or other properties of the complement, M(A), which is the set that remains when the hyperplanes are removed from the whole space. One may ask how these properties are related to the arrangement and its intersection semilattice. The intersection semilattice of A, written L(A), is the set of all subspaces that are obtained by intersecting some of the hyperplanes; among these subspaces are S itself, all the individual hyperplanes, all intersections of pairs of hyperplanes, etc. (excluding, in the affine case, the empty set). These subspaces are called the flats of A. L(A) is partially ordered by reverse inclusion.

If the whole space S is 2-dimensional, the hyperplanes are lines; such an arrangement is often called an arrangement of lines. Historically, real arrangements of lines were the first arrangements investigated. If S is 3-dimensional one has an arrangement of planes.

Swoon #4

Jaye — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:20:07 +0000

Swoon #4

I think this is a particularly cheerful version of the Swoon block.I am enjoying working with a bit more orange and pink than I normally do.

Block-a-Long #51: Two Columns Together

Jaye — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:52:35 +0000

2 Columns Together

I took a week off from the Block-a-Long last week, trying to decide whether or not to continue. I have a few more ideas, so I decided I’ll post a few more blocks. Besides what would I post on Mondays?

This block is related to Two Square Columns and Corner Squares in that I am working with squares and tall rectangles. I can really see this one going well with 2.5″ squares in the center. If anyone is interested I will post a pattern for that size (about 8″) as well.

Directions for 2 Columns Together are included.