4 of my botanical collages cropped to plate size, first colour sketches, 4 more line drawings & finally a sad attempt at painting
me, my ego, a decorative plate and a mighty large roller coaster of emotion
Lilla Roger's - fab ecourse Make Art That Sells Week 2 - home decor, specifically decorative plates such as the gorgeousity that you'd find (& covet) at Anthropologie, purveyors of all things cool & hippest. Like this beauty by Michelle Morin her Etsy shop United Thread has been a favourite of mine for ages - good for her WOW ! landing Anthropologie, everyone's dream customer... well they sure are one of mine anyway. Deadline for brand new (no I can't use older work) plate design Sunday 5pm EST. Phew !! The funny thing is that I do know without a doubt that I CAN do this, that I can create something that I will feel proud of, a plate design that I will feel I've given my absolute best effort to, with wild abandon & creativity, with an innovative colour palette, lots of interesting details & little extras but ... it hasn't happened yet ... so I'm riding the roller coaster that is creativity. Up, down, completely stopped (paralyzed) at the tippy top & most scariest place on that roller coaster, the place called indecision, plummeting down again sigh - 2 days left and I feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I remind myself that YES I do know know what I'm doing, I've felt this way a billion times before, everything's gonna be OK - just get crackin'
It's been fun posting my class progress here ... any ?? please leave them in the comments & stay tuned for the final plate ?!?
ps - the motif for this project is seed heads/pods and/or succulents - yahuh & I love me some seed heads ;-)
i'm sure you'll create something marvelous as everything you do... succulents, mix of greens, purples, grey and yellow tones (as the two last in the image)... you go girl!
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ReplyDeleteI'm really likin' the yellow and pink combination in the last one and yellow is this season's colour... I need more bright energy in my kitchen. It is the one place that absolutely refuses to budge in all my clutter-busting schemes. I have to go about it in a roundabout way, starting with about an hour's cleaning in some other spot and then spring on it... and it still doesn't get clean or lasts for only a day. Maybe I need to find one gorgeous big plate or bowl that inspires me to look at it and then have that be the only thing on my counter? Ooo, I think we may be onto something here....
ReplyDeleteGood luck breaking through. Sometimes going for a walk helps me. (Because you know your self-consciousness is working on it, you just have to get out of the way and wait for it to percoalate up.)
I think they're all wonderful and can immediately see them as a series of plates. I'd buy the 4 top ones in a heartbeat! Go Susan!
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Beautiful. It's really interesting to see the process and the progress. There's plenty of that! The line drawings are wonderful and so different from those coloured and painted, though I like the painting too, gorgeous colour. I agree with mbi, step away from it for a while, and come back with a slightly different perspective.
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