Commentary about works in progress, design & creativity
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.
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
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
Purple Cow by Seth Godin
When I am an Old Woman, I Will Wear Purple
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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
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.
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?
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.
Periodic Spiral is a unique redesign of the Mendeleyevian periodic table
Spiral of Archimedes.
Death spiral.
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.
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. 😉
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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There are a couple of different points in this picture. Most are subtle.
Good point.
Focal point.
Bullet points.
Put a fine point on it.
Basis point.
Access points.
Knitting needles.
Witch shoes.
The point of a pen.
Keeping score in a game.
Pointing at someone.
Mortgage points, origination points.
Hound dogs pointing.
All points bulletin.
Talking points.
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.
Acupuncture points.
Acupressure points.
Points of light.
Did you ever have a family gathering point at an amusement park or museum?
Sharp points.
West Point.
Brownie Points.
Points on a compass, orienteering, Mariner’s Compass.
Weight Watcher Points.
Powerpoint.
President Wilson’s 14 Points.
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.
The eyes are the window to the soul.
Marvin, Pella, American, Anderson
King in the Window
Window treatments
Open window
Double and single paned
Window boxes and planters
Your view out the window?
She came in through the bathroom window…
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.
There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.
I decided to set a good example for all of my faithful CPP participants and create my response right away.
I have to admit that I was tempted to use a previous photo of some blue pieces that will be a quilt.
Here is my response to blue, which incorporates the quilt-to-be that I mentioned above, but is still mostly in the planning and cutting stages
