Let's Inspire each other to be Creative

Marybast,

How about trying copy and paste again of some of your paintings? I couldn't download my painting files so I created a blogspot, uploaded a few paintings and then copied and pasted to here..that worked ok. (when I created a blogspot, didn't realise that there were so many people with my name, and I thought I had a unique one. LOL)

Caerus,

The first painting is the St. Charles Bridge in Prague, and yes, there are people around the bridge, mainly strokes of paint to represent them. I just need to add the statue groups over the bridge supports, not much to do actually.

I have so many paintings that I have done over the years. I love art very much, especially the process. Sometimes we start off with an idea which we have formed in our mind's eye and then when we begin to put shapes, colour and form together, art begins to take on its own personality and sometimes we have to change a few things because as 3monstmama said, it is not always easy to satisfy the image in our mind's eye.

I won't upload anymore until I see some uploaded from Maryblast.

We have a quite a few artists on the boards. SV is a brilliant photographer whose work is in constant demand. Then there is SoCal Lisa who often uploads gorgeous roses. Another poster called Apple who is a musician as well as a painter. So it would be lovely to see works from these gals. And don't forget you knitters and quilters, that's art too and is always well admired.

Glenis

Glenis - Writing is a wonderfu escape ... I can stay there for 7-10 hours at a time ... What did your mother write?  What is the name of her work?  I do jot down things, just about every day.  And I hope to have a work ready at the end of the year

I do remember that typewriter!!  Believe it or not, we had one!  Man was that bad boy tough to type on!!

Cool! I loved doing charcoal sketches - you can really capture the lights and darks. Can you post it?

My mother mainly wrote articles and short stories for a magazine in England where we are from originally. The book that has just been published is her memoirs.

It's not much ... but I'm telling ya, he just loved it!  And I really had fun doing it! 

Oh my gosh ... you are too kiind!  I think I might try another one today ... and I can take this to chemo with me ... I kept thinking while I was doing it ... "It's forgiving, its forgiving" and I didn't have any fears of screwing it up!

I tried cut and paste again, using Internet Explorer. Didn't work. Sorry. All I can do is point people to the blog: http://marysoilpainting.blogspot.com.

Painterly your paintings are wonderful!  Maryblast I have to wait until the weekend to look up your blog, I'm at work now and they look down on that kind of thing, I'm booked with my kids sporting events this week, but I'm FREE on Saturday and that's when I'll check you out.  Oil painting is on my list, I tried it years ago but then kids and life got in the way.  Now I intentionally make time for being creative. Fuzzylemon I love your sketch, I love it more that you are finding healing power in your creativity.  I work as a school nurse and the year after I was diagnosed I had a 5th grader dx with a rare type of cancer.  I shared my story and pictures with her and told her how I spent hours creating.  Before every round of chemo I'd give her a big bag stuffed with arts and craft items, anything from paint to clay (I'm sure her nurses in the hospital loved me), the point is that she actually started to look forward to her chemo because of the bag, she'd deliver it to me the week before treatment so I could fill it.  Just goes to show that it doesn't matter what age you are, creative time helps us all and it comes in many forms. 

PS just as I was typing this my special girl stopped by to show me that she was wearing a scarf I had given her as a belt and wanted to know if we could tie it around her head, she has the most beautiful head of hair now!

Don't you love it!

Let's all try to be creative every day!

Cinda

Oh thefuzzlemon, that sketch is adorable...did you actually do it in during chemo??

Maryblast...just wondering you said that you tried cut and paste...was that a type cos you should be doing copy and paste...it worked for me...just wondering....

CindaD, I don't know what to say about the child looking forward to chemo because of the excitement of what the big bag stuffed with arts and crafts materials will bring...all I can say is that "art has the power to heal."

Still waiting for Caerus/Sunflowers to show us some of her art!

It was a senior moment, meant "copy and paste."   ...

Hi Caerus. great choice of a goddess name. I chose my last name "Bast" years ago after the Egyptian cat goddess, no idea then I'd need her as healer now. I've been thinking about our community as "breast cancer goddesses" which seems so much stronger to me than "survivor."

Good morning all!!  Today is my "nesting day" so I may not be able to do much with my little tablet ... but I wanted to say good morning!  My next Chemo is tomorrow ... the last of the red devils.  This screws me up pretty bad so I may not be abel to post until next week sometime ... I have chemo through the end of July ... but I'm hoping the next cycles aren't so bad!

Hugs and a smile to all of you!!

OK Sunflowers, just had to add a pink rose..

Beautiful artwork here.  And I agree that healing is an art.  Why wouldn't being creative boost our progress?

I can't seem to get anything from my account to post on this board.  I do Norwegian Hardanger embroidery which I learned while healing from a different illness.  It's very soothing and can be done anywhere I care to take it with me.

For you who sew, here's an idea I am going to try.  I plan to dress two teddy bears, male and female, one for daughter and one for son, using pieces from their grandpa and grandma's clothing as a remembrance of them.

I think this would work as a reminder of someone we had lost to cancer as well.