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#71 journal page, altered

#66 silly advice

Don't eat cherries and then brush your teeth...

Good advice:  remember to play.

#28 blink

Don't forget to play...

 

The photos are layered in an app called "Image Blender" and the filters used are either in the same app or "Hipstamatic." 

Filters can be helpful to soften edges depending on how photos are layered.

Sometimes just layering one image on top of another and adjusting the opacity is nice, other times I layer image over image. Or the same image with different filters. 

There are classes. I signed up for one but never really spent much time on it.  I started to play and well... never went back. What I am sharing is what I've learned by just playing.

The class on animation (a Carla Sonheim presents class with Kara Kramer)that I took awhile ago was lots of fun and a place to spend more time. I've been playing with the app used in the class in lots of ways other than animation (mostly as a slide show)...maybe it's time to actually try that.  There is an upcoming film festival!

Field note: First dragonfly sighting in the garden.

 

#19 coincidence?

Following a prompt from a Carla Sonheim class, I squeezed a bit of paint on a page and pulled the paint down with an old bus pass.

After three swipes I realized I'd made a robe...the hearts were added later.

 

comfort food

Otis went to his sulky place.  He thought to himself  "I wonder what would make me feel better?"

Recipes you know so well you can make them without looking...

Scones.  Recipe from Alice Bay Cookbook.

Vegetarian Shepard's pie:  split peas + onions + walnuts + cauliflower + kale + spices, topped with mashed potatoes and baked.

Inspired by a recipe at 101 Cookbooks and one from My New Roots.

 

moon garden

Paper collage + a little sketching + two layers of photos + a filter.

 

blended worlds

2 torn pieces of paper + 2 photos, blended + a filter + a bit of sketching = something else than the beginning but not really an ending.

 

winter finally

There's been a flock of robins in and out of the garden today.  They are working on the neighbor's holly trees.

Five or six will perch at any given time in one of my fruit trees that are by the entry gate.  They are fluffed out full, facing the wind. 

It's supposed to snow part of the night and be windy...gusts up to 40 MPH. It's 7 F/-11 C with the wind chill right now. Not nearly as bad as other areas but cold for us. 

This makes me think storm.

Collage + layering of two photos + filer.

I've been stitching today and, of course, watching the snow fall.

 

smile!

Or maybe pucker up?

One of the assignments for the class I'm taking.

There's also this:

Thinking about something similar to this on cloth. 

prompt

Prompt...to be on time or to encourage, to suggest. 

Most of the watches I've owned in my life time, just missing one I think. I'm a bit bemused about there being two watches with cartoon characters on them.  Classic Cinderella was a gift from my grandparents. I believe I picked it out at a gift store in San Francisco when I was nine. 

The Tweety Bird watch plays "I'm in the mood for love."  I used to wear it to work as a necklace but the kids would want the button pushed over and over and it drove me a bit crazy.... 

The only time that I regularly wore a watch was in college, so that I could be on time for classes. 

 

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." Thoreau

A response for April Love 2017.  The prompt was "favorite quote."  I don't really have one but this one is a long time favorite.  It was included on my college applications and essays that I wrote for scholarships.  I've always thought of education as a foundation. 

Responses to 365 days prompts:

 

 

There is something about prompts and dead lines and due dates and challenges that works for me.  I think it's because daydreaming, playing and generating ideas is easier for me than finishing something. 

Following my own impulses...

creative mess:

laundry (first batch taken outside to dry in the sunshine, and isn't that piece of fabric a prompt in itself?):

tea

I'm going to fill a jar or bowl or something with words and draw a word each day and then post an image on Instagram each day, maybe weekly here. If anyone wants to suggest a word or two or more I'll add them to the mix. 

Since I'll finish the prompts for April Love, I'll start officially drawing words on May 1st.