A couple of mornings ago I was doing a spot of drawing over my cup of tea & after finally, FINALLY “getting” Rapunzel – I’d tried & failed several times – I was wanting to get something else done, a quick brainstorm & the beautiful mermaid pendants I had seen via Mumma Rocks came to mind;
My version;
Such a beautiful pendant; I hope I’ve done it justice!
I finished these last night for a friend’s nursery which is owl themed; Why are they having a tea party? I have no frikkin idea!
Oh dear – you are going to be so sick of bloody robots before this month is out!
While opping a few weeks ago I came across some of those cool wooden coat hangers that squish together at the bottom, I picked them up because I had seen them displaying ‘print your own’ calendars on Etsy last year & thought “Well now, if that isn’t a cheap Christmas present….”, but when I got them home I realised they fit on a wall in Bubba#2’s room perfectly – on pre-installed hooks no less, so I decided to leave them there.
I was going to buy a few robo-themed postcards from Redbubble to display in them, but I am poor yet again so made do with a bit of DIY Polaroid action.
Hopefully soon I’ll be able to show you the nursery all dressed up in it’s space robot glory, just a couple more things to do…..
…or, more accurately, this morning, I stayed up pretty late drawing & painting the final ‘bots for Bubba#2’s room. I picked up a few $1 frames at Le Oppy the other day too so if I can find some hooks or nails they’ll even get put up today. Maybe.
I love it, LOVE IT, when I get into ‘the zone’. When I can’t do anything else except focus on what I’m doing, & I can’t rest until it’s done. It happened when I made the storybook drawers for Miss Punk, or more recently when sewing up her reversible pinnie, but as much as I love it, it doesn’t happen all that often. Most of the time when I finally manage to convince myself that ‘now is the time!’ to make, draw or create I am so preoccupied with other things I should be doing, or things happening around me that the zone remains sadly unobtainable.
I think that if I could get into the elusive zone more easily I would be encouraged to create so much more, both in volume & time commitment, but when it happens it seems to be more by accident than active choice.
Do you reside in ‘the zone’ when you create? Is it easy or hard for you to get there?
(For more creative spaces, or 'zones' perhaps, Kirsty is back - woohoo!)
…is my middle name.
Seriously, if there were an award for the most procrastinating procrastinator, it would assuredly go to me. There would be a parade. Fanfare. Tickertape. I would get a medal. It would be hobbled together MacGyver style from a sink tap, a paddle pop stick & some tape, because the award would come from The Royal Society of Procrastinators, and they wouldn’t have been very prepared for the ceremony.
…I digress… (another of my great, yet useless, skills…)
I have been ever so slowly trying to clean out the spare room over the last few days – also known as bubba#2’s nursery to be – but things are not progressing as they should be. There are so many distractions… boxes to be opened, books to be looked at, things to be sorted… it reminds me very much of how I used to spend days to weeks “cleaning” my room when it was demanded of me by my poor Mother. I would walk in, all gung-ho, begin by piling everything on top of my bed (for easier ‘sorting out’ purposes), finding all sorts of interesting & time-consuming things along the way. “Oh, that’s where that went!”, “I forgot I even had this!”, etc, and then sometime after 1am I would look at the mountain of crap on my bed, shrug, and sleep on the floor. Ah. Memories.
That is very similar to what is going on in the spare room/nursery/junk haven right now. Yesterday I found a bunch of sketch books & spent ages flicking through them, they’re not even from that long ago really, but still, it’s funny what you forget doing/drawing, & what you remember. I thought I’d share a couple of pics that I don’t think I’ve blogged before, so that my time procrastinating wasn’t entirely wasted.
The one below was something I was playing with for a while & then Cam had her Superpops challenge… well, I was already half way there…!
Wow, it’s been AGES since I’ve played along with Kirsty’s ‘My Creative Space’ – Apart from not blogging, Thursdays are pretty busy for us so even if I’ve been doing something creative I generally forget to post about it… am up early today though so thought I’d quickly share a couple more ‘bots that I drew last night; the ratio seems to be two robots I’m happy with to three that don’t get past a head…!
I was also eagerly perusing pretty, bright, spring-type fabrics for ages last night, I know exactly what I want to make for my winter-banishing craft swap (…join in, if you’d like!) & I’m already very excited about it. Just browsing through pictures of all the fabric that scream ‘sunshine!’ made me feel happier, even as I could hear the constant pounding of rain on the roof!
..and now I must be off, busy, busy, busy day ahead – if anybody pops by with a moment to spare who is also playing MCS, I’d love you for always if you could throw my link into the list for me (..that’s not an illegal meme practice, is it?)?! Else wise I’ll do it when I get home… there is surely a certain prestige that goes with being number 247 on the list…??
I have not made any sort of a start on bubba#2’s room yet, I have thought about it, fleetingly, but then… I was thinking of going with a theme, like ‘pirates’ or ‘robots’, but when I suggested this to the boy he said “Pirates are boring & robots suck”. Le Sigh. He would preffer the full Thomas The Tank Engine by Target look, me thinks, but as if that is going to happen… instead I might just try to make a start & see where it takes me, no doubt we’ll end up with a mishmash of retro boy stuff that at the very least makes me happy, because, let’s face it, I’ll be spending more time in there than the baby, to start with!
Last night I dusted off my pencils & sketch book & got started on some robots, perhaps for the wall. Punky & I have been playing robots a little lately, so I might have to guard the finished products lest she steal them for her room, but they’re a while off being at that stage.
…more drawings, waiting, waiting, waiting to be scanned & coloured. I did not find the pen. My suspicions were heightened when The Boy said something along the lines of “It probably got thrown out”. Since his solution to everything that ever goes missing is “It’ll turn up”, and since is he is absolutely the last person to encourage me to spend money buying a new anything, I was alarmed.
Does he know something he’s not telling me? What is the whole truth in the saga of the missing graphics tablet pen? I fear I will never know.
BUT! All is not lost. I have a new pen. It came in a box with another tablet mind you (it’s a long story), but I am ready to get to work.
If you are working on something a wee bit creative, you should share it here with Kirsty & her hoard of devoted “spacers”. (I don’t know where I first saw that, but I like it…)
Apologies to everyone who commented on last week’s space that I didn’t get around to visiting – but my internet is zooming again (cue angels singing), so I’ll be over to bother you this week, never fear.
I can’t believe it’s Thursday again so soon…?!
Ooohparently it is though, and that means it’s time for perusing all the creative spaces around the blogosphere, thanks to the lovely Kirsty.
I already mentioned that I’m not big on Valentines Day, but all the posts about love & hearts & mushy stuff I’ve been seeing has seeped into my subconscious or something because I’ve been drawing pictures along that theme: Love.
These aren’t finished yet – I want to draw a little more & colour on the computer, but I might not be able to fulfil that last desire… the pen for my digital drawing pad has gone AWOL & I can only hope that I’ll find it soon, maybe while packing, and that it wasn’t picked up by one of our house guests a couple of weeks ago by mistake & discarded as a useless pen out of ink, for that is how long it has been missing for… I know it must seem like I’m losing things all the time but generally I know where everything is, even if it is amongst some mess or other, but having “people” here has messed up my “system”. Cross your fingers & your toes for me folks because I really will cry if it is lost for good. Really really.
So, being a public holiday, I will not have any more news today about the house, or “The Cottage” as I have come to think of her, but that shall not stop me from worrying, hoping & planning the entire interior decor.
One thing I would really like to have in my little home, when we can finally “bang a nail in” wherever & whenever we like, is an abundance of beautiful art. I am drawn to illustrations & drawings mostly, maybe because that is what I do…? I don’t know, but I feel a deeper, quicker connection to drawings that I like than I do with paintings that I like, or even photographs, so I’ve been looking for lovely drawings lately that I can frame & admire.
I already have one lovely print ready to go – I am yet to find the right frame, but how I love this picture! I was lucky enough to win it, but I’ve only gone & forgotten where… it’s from here.
Isn’t he great? “Murray the Moose”. Brilliant.
I was thinking maybe some more bicycle themed art to go with him….? What do you think of this lot….?
“Stork Legs on a Penny Farthing”
“The Trick Rider” – not a drawing obviously, but pretty damn cool me thinks!
“Life is like riding a bicycle”
I actually have the remains of a bike veeeeeeeeery similar to that last one in the back yard at the moment – I fell in love when I saw it – shiny red with cool handles & white wall tires… too bad it was incredibly impractical to ride (make that ‘impossible’). I stole the seat for my current ride & plan on making one of the tires into a massive clock…
