#dailycreating AUGUST 2020

In August, I celebrated two years with Terry Runyan's Facebook group, #dailycreating. For participants of Terry's group, she posts a list of suggested prompts for the upcoming week each Sunday afternoon.. While these prompts are not mandatory, for some they serve as a kickstarter for ideas. Terry is simply encouraging us to be creative in some way each and every day. At the time I did these drawings, I was following the prompts almost religiously, which often led to creative pieces that were less than wonderful -- in my eyes. That is because oftentimes a prompt here and there would not resonate with me.

Lately, however, I have found myself deviating more frequently from the prompts, giving me not always successful pieces, but often resulting in work that is a bit closer to my heart. 

Each day, we participants who choose to do so, post our day's work to the Facebook page. The group is loving and non-threatening in their comments. If a member asks for advice, the other members are sure to jump in with constructive words, always in a caring and safe manner. I find this group of artists, some professional, some mediocre (where I fall), some complete beginners, all mesh very well. I cherish them as family.

To begin a new -- and hopefully better! -- year, I will start out by sharing with you 12 of my creations for August. As always, above each piece, I will include the prompt and any other pertinent information I know about my subject matter.

 #buttons, zippers and pockets

#insects

firey jewel beetle

#thing on thing

chameleon

#repair

*kintsukuroi

#in love

#if i were a food . . .

#vest

corgi

#thing on thing

javan tree frogs

#baseball cap

#sneakers

#thing on thing

knobbed hornbill, indonesia

#fish

sea goldie, red sea

Under the prompt, repair, I noted that is was an example of kintsukuroi and added an asterisk (*). For anyone who is interested in this Japanese philosophy of repairing something broken, bringing it to an even more valuable level, HERE is a very interesting article to further your knowledge. Enjoy!

ADDITION: For any of you who find the topic of kintsukuroi, also known as kintsugi, I just discovered a fascinating video about this time honored Japanese art of preserving the past and making the "victims" of accideents even more valuable. HERE is a link to the short video.

Anyway, this brings me to the end of my little monthly exhibition of what I have accomplished in the not so distant past. Each month I will continue to bring you another installment.

I hope you don't mind that once a month I depart from my original premise for my blog, that of planting paper seedlings, in essence, giving you ideas for paper creations that will further you along your creative journey. 

Please always keep in mind that these are my own personal creations, and I appreciate that you respect that by not using my drawings for any purpose unless you do so with my express approval. If you like any of them enough, I will gladly have wonderful quality Giclee prints made for you. Just let me know.

Sketchy

Smiles.