Showing posts with label 52 prompts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 52 prompts. Show all posts

Saturday, November 28, 2009

52 prompts - hats

Here is the next week of inspiration in my 52 prompts journal.


This is just aluminium foil framing an image from the movie "Signs", I have laughed many times thinking of this moment in the movie when they made aluminium foil hats to stop the aliens from controlling their minds. The black is Pitt Artist pen.



I enjoyed this movie, saw it recently on TV and so I thought of the Samurai hats as soon as the prompt came up. I would like to thank Lucy Thomsen for making the origami version of the hat for me out of bronze metallic paper. The page at the back is from a book and the images are from the internet. The text was printed with a computer.





This is an image from a vintage children's book. Very simple, just loved the image and the colours, and that fantastic beret! Because it was raspberry I had to quote the song lyrics, which were written with red Sakura souffle pen.




Quick collage with a background from a vintage children's magazine and images from a fancy dress catalogue (courtesy of Dover Publications) The edges of the background were inked and the title was printed on the computer.




Believe it or not this appears to be an ancestor of mine. Scanned from family photos. What a gorgeous hat! Printed text from the computer, scrapbooking paper, scrapbooking layering.



Scanned image from the book, scrapbooking paper and vellum, black Pitt Artist pen.

Please note that these are collections of images and paste-ups for inspiration and creative venting only. They use a mixture of my own photography, art and drawing, but they also use other people's images that I collage in because they inspire me to make art of my own, and I find they capture the feeling that I am looking for perfectly. This journal of inspiration is therefore a mixture of my art and a paste-up of other people's art that I admire.


Friday, October 9, 2009

52 prompts - buildings

Here are the next seven days of inspiration in my 52 prompts journal.



This is a photo that I took in Wellington, in New Zealand. Printing done with Pitt Artist pen. It is mounted on a handmade looking paper.



This was someone else's artwork on the internet that just moved me, so I have kept it as a paste up for inspiration.

That is ephemera monopoly money in the background, with internet images pasted on top. Text was printed on the computer, and pen used was Pitt Artist pen.



Images off the internet and layered with coloured card. Printing done with chisel ended pen and Pitt Artist pen.
I love Hundertwasser's wonderful organic buldings in beautiful colours!





Internet images of the building and King Kong. Paper scrapbooking frame. Blue card and black Pitt Artist pen.



Images from the Globe off internet. Text printed from computer. Lady Macbeth image is a previous collage artwork I created.




This was the first building that I thought of! Scrapbooking papers, stickers, rubons. Text written with black Pitt Artist pen.
Please note that these are collections of images and paste-ups for inspiration and creative venting only. They use a mixture of my own photography, art and drawing, but they also use other people's images that I collage in because they inspire me to make art of my own, and I find they capture the feeling that I am looking for perfectly. This journal of inspiration is therefore a mixture of my art and a paste-up of other people's art that I admire.


Saturday, September 12, 2009

52 prompts - flowers

Here are the next seven days of inspiration in my 52 prompts journal.















Please note that these are collections of images and paste-ups for inspiration and creative venting only. They use a mixture of my own photography, art and drawing, but they also use other people's images that I collage in because they inspire me to make art of my own, and I find they capture the feeling that I am looking for perfectly. This journal of inspiration is therefore a mixture of my art and a paste-up of other people's art that I admire.


The sunflower is cardmaking layers of coloured card with images from the internet and font typed on the computer.
The fuschia was drawn onto the magazine images of clothing fabrics, then cut and pieced onto the page.
The daisy page is all scrapbooking paper and stickers.
The daffodil page is a torn photo I took in a daffodil field (there were literally thousands of them) with a Daffy-down-dilly image from the internet. I remember the rhyme from my childhood.
The rose is drawn with watercolour pencils. It is copied from an internet image.
The picture of Sakura is from the internet, it is layered on a beautiful blossom scrapbooking paper that I adore. I practiced the Japanese writing and did it in felt pen.
The hibiscus images are straight from the internet. I ran out of inspiration and the images capture the essence of the flower beautifully!
I have been sick recently and I have got way behind in my prompts, but I will post more soon!

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

52 prompts - animals



My friend, Helen, and I have started a new mini art project that we are working on seperately, but together (if you know what I mean?!) I stumbled on some "any year" diaries in a sales bin at a local stationery shop for NZ$1 each. The book measures approx 210mm x 145mm, I guess about 8" x 6". On the 8" x 6" page there are two day entries, or four days on a two page open spread. It is a mid year diary that starts on July 1st.



We decided to use the diary as a mini journal of art prompts. We each take turns at choosing a topic, and then we each make seven small collages/artworks that come to mind from the topic. We can use any type of art or words to portray the topic. The idea is that at the end we will have a book of 52 different prompts, each with 7 different takes, to browse through when we need inspiration. And if that isn't enough, then we can swap books and get inspiration from the other person's journal as well!



Please note that these are collections of images and paste-ups for inspiration and creative venting only. They use a mixture of my own photography, art and drawing, but they also use other people's images that I collage in because they inspire me to make art of my own, and I find they capture the feeling that I am looking for perfectly. This journal of inspiration is therefore a mixture of my art and a paste-up of other people's art that I admire.




The first weeks prompt was "animals" and so we each chose 7 different animals to "art" about.




Turns out that doing these prompts is quite educational as well! When you decide on a topic you invariably go to the computer for inspiration and you end up following links around and doing a little research on the topic. You discover facts you had forgotten, and new ones you never knew!



This is all a bit of fun, and a way to keep being inspired and making art! Hope you share the inspiration!!