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Creative Prompt #37: Gracious

This is a tribute to my friend, Pinky Davidson, the epitome of kindness, a gracious, well mannered woman who took a genuine interest in all of her younger friends.

Gracious definition: marked by kindness and courtesy

Good gracious!

Gracious living.

Gracious me!

He is such a gracious host.

Sew Gracious Blog – lots of ads for her Etsy Shop, but the Wordless Wednesday is interesting.

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

Response #35

Purple Journal Page
Purple Journal Page

This isn’t the response I wanted to put up. The prompts are stacking up, however and I was starting to get anxious. As I looked through the journal pages from the  A Work of Heart session/class, I found this page and thought you might enjoy seeing it.

I worked really hard on the studies for a drawing response to Purple that I can’t just let go. Look for another Purple response some day.

Creative Prompt #36: Feather

Wikipedia definition:  one of the epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds. They are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates.

Light as a feather.

Peacock, ostrich, hummingbirds and pheasant feathers.

Feather River, Quincy, CA

Feather boa.

Plume

Quill.

Pin feathers.

Fly tying.

Down pillows.

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

Sketching #34

CPP Response #34
CPP Response #34

Summer was a difficult prompt. It is hard to draw (my mode of expression in the CPP, mostly) an expression of summer without people. I do find a few people or parts of people starting to creep into my studies for the CPP responses. Hhmmm. Let me know what you think and I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Check out Kathy’s Bliss Initiative, which is on Creativity this week.

Creative Prompt #35: Purple

SURPRISE!!!!!!

I am posting a special creative prompt to coincide with her “virtue of bliss” for creativity week.

Kathy, my long time friend, is doing a year long project on adding more bliss to her life. You can see her blog, Everyday Bliss, and learn more about the project on her blog.

To inspire you….

Purple has always been a royal color

Kathy thinks of purple as a magical or fairy color

Julie‘s favorite color

Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze

Purple People Eater

Jessie has a pink and purple monster that lives behind her house

Abby Kadabby from Sesame Street

Purple Rain from Prince

Barney the Purple Dinosaur

Grapes

Purple is the color of the font that Kathy uses for her Monday post font color

McDonald’s character, Grimace

Purple is a general term used in English for the range of shades of color occurring between red and blue (Wikipedia)

Harold and the Purple Crayon

Violets (color and flower)

Iris, Orchids and Crocuses

Purple Dragon Tour Company

I have never seen a purple cow I never hope to see one… by Gelett Burgess

MTA Maryland has a purple line

Lavender

Purple Cafe and Wine Bar in Downtown Seattle

Deep Purple

Purple Cow by Seth Godin

When I am an Old Woman, I Will Wear Purple

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Order of the Purple Heart

Creative Prompt #34: Summer

Summer may be over, but this prompt will give you the opportunity to relive it. Summer is one of the four temperate seasons, marked by the warmest time of year with the longest days, and lies between spring and autumn. (from Wikipedia)

Beach Boys

Endless Summer

Summer Session.

Summer school.

Summer stock.

Barbeque, cookouts, picnics.

Summer jobs.

School’s out for summer!

Donna Summer

500 Days of Summer

Summer Solstice

Summertime lime

Indian summer

Summer camp

Summer internship

Summer Olympics

Summer abroad

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

Sketching #33

Creative Prompt Response: Spiral #33
Creative Prompt Response: Spiral #33

After working so hard on the detail on last week’s response, I find that this one doesn’t have enough detail. I did a number of studies and couldn’t figure out what else to add so I am just posting it.

On one hand, the art on the wall of the dining room has a lot of detail. Perhaps it balances the sparseness of the rest of the drawing?

Creative Prompt #33: Spiral

You should all have fun with this one!

Definition from Wikipedia: In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a central point, getting progressively farther away as it revolves around the point.

Fibonacci Spiral.

2007 movie directed by Adam Green and Joel Moore.

Spiral anime.

Nautilus shells.

Spiral notebook.

Spiraling out of control.

Fermat’s spiral.

Miquelrius notebook.

Periodic Spiral is a unique redesign of the Mendeleyevian periodic table

Spiral of Archimedes.

Death spiral.

Spirograph Box
Spirograph Box

Spirograph (see www.samstoybox.com/toys/Spirograph.html)

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

Sketching #32

CPP Response #32
CPP Response #32

After looking at a few of my recent drawings and I realized that I hadn’t been adding as much detail as I had in the past. I had some bits of time this week, so I decided to try and add a few more details to this one. This is the second attempt, but I am pretty pleased with how it came out.

Yes, I am moving furniture around. 😉

Sketching #31

Response to Awakenings
Response to Awakenings

I looked at Jill’s response (Quilt Rat) as soon as she posted it and I was lost. Her response was so perfect that I couldn’t think of anything. I tried different ideas and nothing seemed as perfect as her response. Finally, the next Friday’s response appeared and I knew I just had to do something and not be a slacker. That slippery slope is so easy to get on….

So, for better for for worse, here is my response. It is inspired by a magazine picture I cut out years ago. The inspiring picture is a close-up of a tea tray. I tried to incorporate some of the elements from other responses into this one to keep up some of the continuity.

Creative Prompt #32: Even

Are your bangs even?

Level; flat; without surface irregularities (from Dictionary.com)

Even or odd?

Even steven!

On an even keel.

Even weave.

Pearl Jam’s Even Flow.

Even numbers.

David Trevellyan thriller.

Get even.

Even more.

Break even.

With an even hand.

Even handed.

Even worse

Even better.

Even color.

Sharona Even-Ram

Air Supply’s Even the Nights are Better.

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

Fusible and Paintable Glass

Fused & Painted Pieces
Fused & Painted Pieces

One of the things about creation is that you never know how your pieces will come out.

At the beginning of August, I went with a couple of other CQFAers to Create It! Studio in Palo Alto for a glass fusing creation session. I wrote about the whole session at that time. I also showed pictures of all of the pieces pre-firing/fusing.

Diane, one of the CQFAers, was kind enough to pick up my pieces since I live far enough away to make it a pain. I thought I might get down to her house, but, alas, it wasn’t to be. As you know I was chained to my sewing machine for weekends on end. 😉

I finally got my pieces back on Saturday and I am really pleased with how they turned out. I am especially pleased with the divided dish, which will be part of the series I started my first time at a painting place. The red of the dish really came out well (4 coats!). There is only one little spot on which I should have put more paint.

Fused and Painted, full
Fused and Painted, full

It is fun to do something different; it is as though it doesn’t matter and I can play, because it isn’t my primary work.

Enjoy!

Creative Prompt #31: Awakenings

Does everything ever suddenly fall into place?

1990 movie directed by Penny Marshall.

Oliver Sacks Awakenings book

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

Linda M.Poole CPP Success

I am so pleased to relay Linda’s good news about her upcoming fabric line for Avlyn. She also gives me / Artquiltmaker.com some kudos, which I also appreciate.
clipped from lmpoole.blogspot.com


I have an announcement, Quotes for Today,Cool things I love,Quilting Cartoon,Pet Beds,Your Color Fix for Today
WOO HOO…HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

I am truly excited to announce my collaboration with Avlyn Fabrics as one of their fabric designers. My first collection is fun, fresh, and whimsical.
The kind of fabric that makes you happy!

When I first put my pencil to paper, my thoughts were of you, the quilter, sewer and crafter. We LOVE color and that was a no brainer for me as I am a huge lover of color too. I designed this first collection with some of the things I love……can you tell I am being quite secretive??? Believe me, I am full of anticipated excitement to show you the finished fabrics…..but we are still working on a “name” and finishing up the coordinates. I know in my heart you will love it!

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