Instant Inspiration Monday

Every Monday I will be inviting you to share an image that showcases your creativity.  Link up to your Blog or share URLs from Instagram, Photobucket and flickr.  Come by on Mondays and share with others here.  I look forward to seeing what has inspired your creativity, it will likely inspire mine too!

Week-End Reflection: Focus

on your passions

on your dreams

on your future

on your journey

on your life

on yourself.

I am always amazed at how quickly working with an image will ground me and bring clarity.  It is a simple process that I embrace.  This past week found me a bit derailed in terms of being creative...this is a gentle reminder the importance of creativity for me and the need to focus on myself again.

Instant Inspiration Monday

Every Monday I will be inviting you to share an image of something that sparked your creativity or a project you are currently working on.  When you see something that inspires you, simply take a photograph of it and then come by on Mondays and share the URL to your image here.  You can link directly to your Blog or to such programs as Instagram, Photobucket and flickr.  I look forward to seeing what has inspired you, it will likely inspire me too!

This image was inspired by the

 little hand-written 

note in the top right corner...I found it 

in a library book.

Week-End Reflection: Angel Mine

You eluded me

I doubted

You hid from me

I sought

You drew me in

I accepted

You appeared to me

I saw

Often it is in the process of making an image that the true magic lies. 

Working Through Frustration

 

If you are like me, you probably find that you hold on to your frustration for a little too long and stew in it.  I play things over in my head and think about the event that has gotten me frustrated and it can take me awhile to just let it go.  Being inspired by the project "Journaling our (He)art Out" I sat with my frustration and did something a bit more proactive with it.

I began by writing out in words what was eating away at me.  This alone was therapeutic and by the end of the page I noticed I had started to write things that were more positive.  I took it further though and covered up my words in pink (for me, the colour pink usually speaks to my vulnerability in my artwork).  I chose to leave the words somewhat visible though and reflecting on that I guess that for me it conveys that I am not forgetting the issue but working on it.  Then before I knew it I had created boxes all over the page and I kept letting my creativity lead and the next thing I was doing was adding the figures (inspired by Leah Piken).  Reflecting on the image now they represent different perspectives that I could choose to use to look into my frustration.

The last elements I added were the words "FORGIVE" and "ACCEPT".  I wasn't quite there yet, but I was a step closer to it after doing this piece. 

Lastly I found myself decorating the page more and honestly not feeling the frustration as intensely as when I had started.  I had given it a voice, worked through it and let it go.  Much better than holding it and stewing over it don't you think?

This is how art can work as therapy :)

Instant Inspiration Monday

Every Monday I will be inviting you to share an image of something that sparked your creativity or a project you are currently working on.  When you see something that inspires you, simply take a photograph of it and then come by on Mondays and share the URL to your image here.  You can link directly to your Blog or to such programs as Instagram, Photobucket and flickr.  I look forward to seeing what has inspired you, it will likely inspire me too!

Following a wooden path in the woods...the metaphors are endless for me.

Week-End Reflection: Messages

Enjoying looking inwards

on journeys within.

Accepting my creative processes

and seeing where they lead me.

My discoveries have messages

revealing part of myself

for me 

to discover.